Honey Cookies

When I was a kid, my family always got our baked goods at a local bakery outside of Nashville called Beckers Bakery. The cakes were wonderful but their cookies were the best! Especially their Honey Cookies. When we moved away, I was never able to find another bakery that had these kinds of cookies, so I pretty much gave up trying & only have them on the occasions I go back home.

Today, however, I had a mad craving for honey cookies. So I looked up recipes for them. I didn't really expect to find any good ones, but I did come across this one called Honey Bee Cookies from cooks.com. I made it today (with minor alterations) and they came out great! They almost taste just like the ones from Beckers! They are however, very sweet. Even for me & I love sweets. I don't remember the ones from the bakery being quite so sweet, but then, it's been a good 10 years since I've had theirs. So it's hard to judge. But my little one liked them too, so I'll make them again.

Now that I'm on a a cookie making roll, I will only send my home made cookies in her school lunch. I really don't want her to have all the preservatives & junk that are in store bought pre-packaged cookies. Cookies are not meant to have a year long shelf life. They are to be eaten and enjoyed immediatley. But she wants cookies, and my husband likes to have one with lunch too, so I usually end up making big batches on the weekends.

And although I don't think my husband will like these, I think they came out pretty good.

here's the recipe:

Honey Cookies

• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 stick of butter, softened
  
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 egg
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon

1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees.

2. Beat butter, brown sugar, honey and egg in a medium bowl on medium speed, scraping bowl constantly, until smooth. Stir in remaining ingredients.

3. Drop the dough by Tablespoon fulls onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.

4. Bake until set and light brown around edges 8 to 12 minutes. Let stand 3 to 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet, then remove from cookie sheet with metal spatula onto a wire rack. Makes 12 cookies.