Tea and Cookies Create the Moment
Heirloom IceBox Oatmeal Cookie Recipe and the Chief Blonde’s childhood teacup. 
Tea and Cookies Create Memories across Generations
When I was little, my mom and dad bought me my first “Big Girl” teacup. It was pink, white and cream–so girly! My mom saved it for me over the years, and she finally gave it to me about 10 years ago! When I was small, I enjoyed using the teacup when my grandparents would come over and share tea with us. Invariably, my grandmother would bring her special Heirloom IceBox Oatmeal Cookie for dunking in the tea. Is there anything like the wonderful soothing blend of tea and cookies? I remember sitting there with my mom, my brother and my grandma and grandpa, while Grandma told stories from the past. I felt so grown-up having my own china teacup and sipping tea along with them. One year for Christmas, my brother and I received a child size “card table”, with it I received a blue tea set. I still remember how much I played with that set, pretending to have tea parties, asking people what they wanted in their tea, and fake drinking my own. When I could get my brother to put down his gun, he would even play along. 
The Chief Blonde and her brother..Christmas Tea Party
Heirloom IceBox Oatmeal Cookie Recipe and Bigelow Tea
I was lucky enough to inherit my grandma’s recipe box. Each recipe is carefully prepared in Grandma’s lovely handwriting with preparation instructions, who the recipe originally came from, and often little notes. It’s so precious to have this, opening the box brings my grandmother right back to me! 
Grandma’s Recipe for Heirloom Icebox Oatmeal Cookies I decided to make my grandma’s cookies for Walt. He had also been wanting to try green tea as a replacement for coffee. So I headed off to Walmart to get some Bigelow tea and supplies to make the cookies. 
I felt like I might enjoy a fruity tea with Grandma’s oatmeal cookies. In the end, I choose the Bigelow Assorted Herbal Teas as I could try a variety of flavors in one tea box. 
With supplies in hand, I used this recipe to make my Grandma’s Heirloom Icebox Oatmeal Cookie Recipe.
- 1 cup Butter
- ½ cup White Sugar
- ½ Brown Sugar
- 1 Egg
- ½ tsp. Vanilla
- 1 cup slow or quick Oats
- 2 cups Flour
- ½ t. Baking Soda
- ¼ t. Salt
- Preheat Oven to 400 Degrees
- Cream Butter, White Sugar and Brown Sugar thoroughly
- Mix in Egg,
- Mix in Vanilla
- Mix in Oats
- Prepare Flour Mixture in a separate bowl( Flour, Baking soda and salt)
- Mix Flour Mixture into Butter/Egg Mixutre until combined.
- Scrap mixture from mixing bowl and divide into two parts.
- Make 2 oblong rolls with dough.
- Wrap rolls separately in wax paper and refrigerate overnight
- When ready to bake, slice off ¼" thick slices and place on a cookie sheet sprayed with PAM
- Cook 8-10 Minutes at 400 Degrees
Create new Moments with Old Memories
I shared with Walt, my darling husband, the stories about drinking tea in my special teacup, dunking the special cookies with my grandparents, and the wonderful oatmeal cookie recipe. Bigelow Tea, with its variety of flavors, let us both enjoy the kind of tea that we wanted with our cookies. Bigelow tea just warms you up and as you sit and enjoy, you seem to just open up. Bigelow Tea is 100% family owned, third generation, and the #1 tea company in the USA. The company was started by Cindi Bigelow’s grandmother in her kitchen in 1945. Cindi Bigelow is the current CEO of the company and a lovely Blonde Woman over 45– you know that matters on this blog! Bigelow understands the need to create special moments with your family and believes tea is an excellent vehicle to create special moments. Walt and I agree. 
The Chief Blonde and Walt share Bigelow Tea, Heirloom Icebox Oatmeal Cookies and special moments with #AmericasTea.
Create Some Bigelow Tea Moments of your Own
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If you have Grandmas recipes you got it girl. Treasures to me they are to have my Grandmas collection. Not a big tea drinker but did go to a ladies tea party restaurant and it was lovely with all the beautiful tea cups and the decor all just was wonderful. I just made some oatmeal cookies with raisins last week too.
What wonderful memories! Bring out the tea and get to baking…it’s Homemade Cookie Day and what better way to start the fall than with some grandma’s cookies and warm tea. Create some new memories to go along with those older ones.
Love Tea moments!! My mom and I have them!! not often enough anymore but it used to be more common!! Is it weird that Im totally in love with any recipe with “icebox” as a reference in it?!?! It means it has history and has lasted generations which means its probably just AMAZING!!!
We didn’t drink tea but my Grandma made these with a chic thin mint in the middle for a sandwich cookie. I haven’t had these in twenty years. Thank you so much. Best Christmas gift ever!!
I always wondered why they were called “Icebox” cookies! Can’t wait to bake these! Thanks for posting! And thanks for the trip down memory lane… Santa brought me a table similar to yours, and I still have my toy china tea set!
These cookies are my new favorite! I also love teacups and have collected assorted teacups from garage and estate sales. I have tea parties with my grandkids and a big part of it for them is getting to choose their teacup since they’re all different! Thank you for the recipe and the story.
I love the idea of sharing old memories with family while including a much loved recipe. What a way to draw everyone together.
Your story brought back such wonderful memories of my childhood also. My mother would make us tea and toast if we weren’t feeling well and it always seemed to do the trick. It’s intersting how things come full circle. Now that my mother is older and with some health issues, I often find myself fixing her tea and I’m sure it contains just as much love as hers.
Thanks Claudia. Weren’t we blessed with such awesome Grandmas!
Your post was a such a delight to read, Shelley. Not only am I a wee bit jealous of you having such an amazing recipe box from your grandmother, but I just love all the stories about you and your tea cup and your grandmother. What a great glimpse into your life…and those cookies look PERFECT for having with a cup of Bigelow tea!
I have never heard of Bigelow teas but now I want to try it! So yummy!
Such a great excuse for time together. I love tea traditionally and everything that comes it too (cookies and conversations)
i LOVE having tea w/ cookies! or dipping cookies in tea, yum!!
xo,
Sandy
That is great that you got your grandma’s recipe box. What a great keepsake. Those cookies look great and I love tea. 🙂
Dawn
I love all kinds of teas as I think all have something that give them a character to their very own. Have a special cookies filled with so many lovely memories must be wonderful.
How neat is it that you inherited your grandmother’s recipe box? I’m definitely saving this recipe- those cookies look delicious, and I’d love to try them with my favorite Lemon Green Bigelow blend.
Yes, I was thinking this was a play on words as well! I remember taking my daughter to her first High Tea. It was such an elegant girlie experience. We both loved it!
I’m a tea drinker from way back; my Dad was a tea drinker and I hung out with him a lot. I love that you shared such a wonderful memory with us. And the recipe? In your Grandma’s own handwriting? Priceless.
My husband’s very favorite cookies, and I am so making these for Valentine’s Day! Am definitely a fan of Bigelow tea, as well, and so is he. You’ve given me a great idea for Feb 13. We’re talking about tea over at my blog, too!
I admit to being a tea snob and only use loose leaf at home but for the times I am out and about I need a decent bagged tea and Bigelow is one the very few who qualify. I am going to have to try the cookies though.
Thank you for sharing this story, very sweet and it made me smile 🙂