First I made the Cranberry Oat Chip Cookies. The recipe makes about 2 dozen cookies, so I doubled the recipe. The ingredients include not only cranberries and oatmeal, but also mini chocolate chips and peanut butter. The recipe has a whole wheat flour base. All in all, it was very similar to Vegan Peanut Chip Cookies, aside from all those animal products. The batter mixed up well, and stuck together better than the Vegan cookies. Also, I didn't burn any of them. I do think there was a little consistency issue in terms of the cranberry to chocolate chip to cookie dough ratios, possibly because the dough was thick and difficult to mix and I was tired and a bit lazy.
Then, I moved on to Wanda's Chocolate Chip Cookies which included three sticks of butter. This recipe mixed up well and was reminiscent of the traditional Toll House Cookie recipe, so I knew these would be tasty. I used semi-sweet morsels since Wanda gives you the option of using whatever "chip" you like. The dough was so thick at the end that my KitchenAid Stand Mixer actually slowed down significantly and had trouble mixing. I have never seen that before! After trying to mix in the morsels with a spoon and then a spatula, I ended up diving in and mixing it with my hands. Then I started to bake... and bake... and bake. Wanda's Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe makes a ton of cookies! I ended up with so many that I couldn't take them all to work because they wouldn't fit in the container I had.
This matchup seemed very similar to the first preliminary game and I wondered if it would have similar results. On the other hand, I consider cranberries to be a very polarizing ingredient to add to cookies, so perhaps the ballot would come down to how many voters like the taste of cranberries. On Friday, the cookies were met with great excitement by all. Wanda's Chocolate Chip Cookies had some very vocal support, although those I mentioned that to insisted they had heard equally ardent support for the Cranberry Oat Chip Cookies. Here is a picture of both cookies (Cookie A, Chocolate Chip Cookies, are on the left and Cookie B, Cranberry Oat Chip Cookies, are on the right):
The final results were: 14 for Wanda's Chocolate Chip Cookies and 10 for Cranberry Oat Chip Cookies. (I guess that's what you get for resigning, Chad!). Congratulations to Wanda for advancing to the next round!
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