CHEWY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Chocolate chip cookies like Mrs. Fields makes

These cookies are a combination of oatmeal and chocolate chip. They are very rich, but very tasty. The recipe was obtained from a friend of a friend, who supposedly paid a large amount of money for it. However, the cookies do not taste \fBexactly the same as the name brand.

Ingredients

(Yield approximately 60)

2 cups butter
2 cups sugar (granulated white)
2 cups brown sugar (dark brown)
4 eggs (large!use 5 if medium)
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups flour (sift before measuring)
5 cups rolled oats (oatmeal), powdered finely.
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
24 oz chocolate chips (being a purist, I prefer Toll House morsels)
8 oz chocolate bar, finely grated.
3 cups chopped nuts (I prefer walnuts, but you can use your favorite type.)

Procedure

Preheat oven to
Cream together the butter and the sugars.
Sift together flour, oatmeal, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and shredded chocolate bar.
Add eggs and vanilla to creamed sugar and butter, then mix all ingredients together.
Mix chocolate chips and nuts into mixture.
Drop by onto ungreased cookie sheet in small drops.
Bake 6 minutes or until done.

Notes

A blender works very well to powder the oats and the chocolate bar. The blender chops the oatmeal finer than a food processor. The powdered chocolate bar should melt at the touch of your fingers.

I prefer my cookies just barely done, so that they remain chewy. If you want to send your taste buds into heaven, butter the cookies as they come out of the oven (still hot), and eat them still warm with a glass of \fBcold milk.

Note that cocoa is not the same thing as a shredded chocolate bar. Note also that oatmeal is not the same thing as quick-cooking oats or instant oatmeal. Oatmeal means "rolled oats," such as Quaker oats.

Rating

Difficulty: easy to moderate.
Time: 30 minutes.
Precision: measure the ingredients.

Contributor

 
Sam Spitzner 
Illinois Bell, Chicago, Illinois 
Email address: ihnp4!ilunix!sks 
Snail address: 225 W. Randolph, HQ17B, Chicago, Il. 60606

Recipe last modified: 10 DEC 85

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From: sks@ilunix (Sam Spitzner)
Newsgroups: mod.recipes
Subject: RECIPE: Chewy chocolate-chip cookies
Date: 21 Dec 85 06:46:35 GMT
Organization: Illinois Bell, Chicago, Illinois
Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA

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