Crepes? Why not?
Let me begin with some blasphemy*; I would have preferred these cookies without chocolate chips. *Gasp* It’s true; they’re alright, and the chocolate is in this case improved by time/cooling, but I feel that for the first time I’m biting into cookies and thinking to myself “these are great…but the chocolate…” So consider yourselves warned.
Oatmeal cookie recipes are pretty similar; everyone varies the amount of chocolate chips, fruit, nuts etc. that they put in their cookies, and I think this is the best recipe I’ve put together so far. It makes a big difference using organic old fashioned rolled oats, as opposed to Quaker old fashioned – hard as a rock oats. These spread out into nice almost lacy cookies with crisp, buttery edges, which is what I’ve been trying for for years.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups rolled oats
12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips…or not.
1/2 cup dried cranberries
Preheat oven to 350° and line baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cream butter and sugars in an electric mixer on medium speed, beating at least 5 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth.
In another bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. (I threw the salt into the egg/sugar mix, I don’t know why. They turned out fine regardless.) Add dry ingredients to egg mixture, beating on low speed until smooth. Stir in oatmeal and any fruits/nuts/chocolates you like, or per above. Williams Sonoma had the first recipe to tell me to add the oatmeal in a separate step; I’m intrigued…
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet – space dough at least 1 1/2 inches apart, as they spread. Bake on center rack 10-12 minutes.
Enjoy with milk, or if you’re like me, a pot of green tea.
Monday Pounce!
Sweet!
This post was up rather late not because I’m a nightowl, but because there were so. many. unicorns. on Etsy this evening. Pounce took me to page after page of unicorns – bibs, dishes, towels, blankies, toys, sketches, watercolors, and lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Too many unicorns. They need a “take me to the cute dishes” button after that many unicorns.
♥ Momo