Wednesday, May 16, 2012

May 15th National Chocolate Chips cookie day

How I love this day!
Chocolate Chip cookies.
I don't know many people who don't like them cookies.
Classic. Delicious. Versatile.

There are SO many great chocolate chip cookies recipes out there it's craaaaaaaaaazy!!!

To celebrate, I made the delightful ones:


CHOCOLATE CHIP OATIES

Ingredients:
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, room temp
Generous 1/2 cup of muscovado sugar (or brown sugar)
1 egg
2/3 cup oatmeal
1 tbsp milk ( I used coconut milk)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup flour ( any kind, gluten free, whole wheat, all purpose..)
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking powder
6 squares bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces (or 1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate chips)
6 squares milk chocolate, broken into pieces (or 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips)
(really, you can use the kind of chocolate your palette desires!)

Preheat oven at 350F/180C
Grease or place parchment paper on 2 large cookie sheets.
Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat together with a wooden spoon until light and fluffy.
Beat in the egg.
Add the oatmeal, milk and vanilla.
Beat together until well blended.
Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder into the mixture and stir.
Stir in the chocolate pieces.
Place dessertspoonfuls of the mixture on the prepares cookie sheets and lightly flatten with a fork.
Bake in the oven for 15 minutes, until they have slightly risen and firmed.
Remove from the oven and let cool on the cookie sheets for 2 minutes, then transfer to cooling racks to cool completely.

**After baking, it is IMPORTANT that the cookies be left on the cookie sheets for 2 minutes, because this ensures they do not fall apart when transferred to a cooling rack**

Makes 20 cookies


Funny how the cookies match my counter perfectly! :O)


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