Monday, March 26, 2018

Chocolate Chip - Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies - Simple & Homemade



Chocolate Chip - Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

RECIPES AT THE TOP!  Chit Chat at the bottom.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  (Makes app. 24 cookies.)


  • 1 1/2 cups Old Fashioned Oats
  • 3/4 cup All Purpose Flour
  • 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup granulated white sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large egg yolk (I used 1 small whole egg instead of a large yolk)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Soften butter (I used the microwave just until softened).

Add sugar (brown sugar and white) and STIR WELL.  Then add the eggs and stir again until smooth.  STIR IN the cocoa, baking soda, salt, vanilla.  THEN add flour and oats.  Stir until blended.  Add chocolate chips and stir again.

(I refrigerated for about 30 minutes and made balls since I don't have a cookie scoop.)

Bake on sprayed cookie sheet (or lined with parchment paper) at 350 degrees for 13 minutes.  Let cool a few minutes before removing to a cooling rack.

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Hello everyone!

I'm stopping by to add this delicious, simple, and homemade cookie recipe to the blog.  I hadn't made these in forever and wanted to make sure to save this recipe for making often. 

I remember eating them soft and warm, freshly made in our high school's kitchen by "lunchroom ladies" who really knew how to crank out the cookies!   That is where I first tried chocolate chip - chocolate oatmeal cookies.  Those ladies were the bomb diggety!  Although, rarely nice to us, they were spotlessly clean and fantastic cooks!  We never made chit chat with them but totally respected and were in awe of their talents.

I made this recipe yesterday and they turned out so wonderful!  They will be a great addition to school and work lunches for a small treat.  I love that they have oats!  For some reason, that takes a little of the guilt away, doesn't it?

My husband and I are the only ones home most days so I only baked one cookie sheet of these babies.  The rest, I made into little balls and placed in a small pan for freezing.  After they were frozen, I bagged them up for baking another day.

Enjoy!




Gina