Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

 

 

  I have a knack for making up recipes that sometimes, somehow end up being successful. Problem? I rarely ever write down the exact recipe. So.. I end up with a one time wonder. This time, as I was dancing around the kitchen pouring ingredients and singing my newest muse, whatever it was at that moment, I was yelling the exact ingredients to my sister that happened to be writing nearby. This cookie is now an "every time wonder". There is something about cookies. I am willing to work and over work for a delicious cake, but cookies? If your anything like me, they are going to be finished faster than it took to make them. And no, I'm not going to refrigerate my dough for 45 minutes before shaping and baking. The reason I made the dough now, is because I want a cookie in 13 minutes. FLAT.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

What You'll Need:

• 2 Cups Crushed Oats
• 1 1/4 Cup Flour
• 1 1/4 Cup Oil
• 1 Cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 Cup White Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 2 Tsp Vanilla 
• 1 Tsp Baking Soda
• 1 Tsp Baking Powder
• 1/3 Cup Crushed Walnuts, or nut of choice (Optional)
• 1/2 -1 Cup Chocolate Chips (depending how chocolatey you like your cookies)
• A Dash of Salt

Preheat Oven to 350 F. 

In a large bowl, first combine your oil, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Once nice and smooth, add all your dry ingredients, combine. I like to line my baking sheets with parchment paper, so if you have some of that magic, go ahead and do that. Using two tablespoons or a small scooper make one Tbsp sized mounds leaving a two inch separation between each cookie, because they DO expand. Place into the oven for about 13 minutes, every oven is very different. Many ovens would need you to place your sheet on the bottom wrack for the first 5-6 minutes and then on the top wrack for the rest. Once they are nicely golden, they are ready. They harden once they are set and at room temperature. 

For a softer chewier cookie, take them out once they are slightly golden, for a crispy cookie, golden all the way, Kapish? Good.