Sophie's Cookie Recipe - Perfect for Autumn Fun

Last Autumn, the girls and I found a great book at the library. Believing Sophie is the story of a girl wrongly accused of shoplifting and how she solves her problem. The book ends with a wonderful cookie recipe that our family loved.

Now that the weather's turning back to cool, dark nights, I think it's high time to do a little family baking. Hope your family may as well!

The recipe follows below if you want to try it out at home :)

Sophie’s Cookies
From the book Believing Sophie By Hazel Hutchins

Cream together:
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar

Mix in:
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt

Lastly add:
2 cups rolled oats
1 overflowing cup of M&Ms

Stir until well mixed. The dough may be crumbly, but if you use your hands it will form easily into balls. For large cookies, the balls should be golf-ball sized or bigger. Smaller cookies are also very good.

Set cookie balls on a greased cookie sheet and flatten them gently with your fingers to a nice cookie thickness. Bake at the top of the oven at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes until a pale golden brown. They are best when cooked through but not overcooked or hard. Makes at least 1 dozen large or 3 dozen small cookies.

Enjoy!