I just did a very successful cookie experiment
On Thursday I went to the grocery store to FINALLY do my two weeks' shopping. I chose the Winco Foods in Spokane Valley, WA, which has a really large bulk food department. While I'm in there I spotted the chocolate-covered raisins. "I wonder how these would be in cookies?" So, I bought two pounds - on the theory that if the cookies sucked I still like chocolate-covered raisins.
I made a standard Toll House cookie recipe substituting the chocolate-covered raisins for regular chocolate chips. I set my Bertazzoni oven to 375° and "Convection" mode - there's also a Convection Bake mode that is more like a standard oven - then baked the cookies for 10 minutes.
They taste like chocolate chip cookies with a mild raisin flavor. Very interesting. I'm going to take this batch to work and have the rest of the crew give their opinion on them, but I like them.
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but i'm on a diet. You try it for me! 
New Washingtonion here, new to WinCo, and am already a fan of their bulk section. Now I will seek out those raisens, which I love. I discovered their dried coconut strips and have been devouring them. If you enjoy Mounds or Almond Joys, this scratches that itch quite well. The shape is the important feature--it is not little flakes. Can't get enough.
But chocolate raisens in cookies? I approve! 
