
Chocolate Chip Cookies
I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving! My family had eight pie.
EIGHT PIES.
One pie for every 1.4 people.
We are a sick, sick bunch.
This week on my blog, I will be posting our family favorite cookie recipes. (Yes, the sickness continues…)
If you want to know more about participating or even hosting a cookie dough exchange party, you can go to my website and sign up for my newsletter. There you will learn of my undying love for all things Cookie Dough and why a Cookie Dough Exchange is far superior to a plain ol’ cookie exchange.
This week’s giveaway! If you leave a comment and share your favorite cookie dough recipe, you will be entered to win a Cookie Dough Exchange kit. Drawing will include all comments through the week and will be announced next Monday, 12/7. The winner of last week’s 11/24 Project 20, for the Post-It Pack is Heidi! Please e-mail kimber@kathilipp.com and she will get it right out to you!
The following recipe is by far the best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe we have ever made at home. There is something about that blended up oatmeal that makes these cookies about the mositest (is that even a word?) and chewiest CCC I have ever had the delight of eating. Oh, and the dough freezes perfectly!
On to the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever!
(Recipe may be halved):
2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal and blend in blender to a fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts.
Decide if you want to freeze into pre-scooped balls, or ready to slice logs.
Flash freeze scooped balls on a cookie sheet before packaging it. It will make it easier to handle and keep its shape better if you are freezing a lot of packages on top of it. For logs, wrap in plastic wrap and form into a log about 2″ around.
I package my dough in large Ziploc bags. Put the dough in the bag and write the baking instructions on the bag. I like to experiment with the cookies and find out what the baking time and temp is for frozen dough as well as thawed dough.
Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies
Hi Kathy;
I am excited to have your recipe for the Chocolate Chip cookies with Oatmeal – one of my favorite combos (add Peanut butter and I am in heaven). Anyway, I wanted to share a chocolate chip cookie recipe I have – it is very very good. The most dangerous part: it does not freeze solid so, yep you guessed it…it might not even see the oven. Best PMS medication available. ;o} Remember I warned you!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
This makes 9 – 10 cups
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
Mix above ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.
1 1/2 cups vegetable shortening
2 1/2 cups light brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup milk (I know, milk?- just do it)
2 tablespoons vanilla
2 eggs
In large mixing bowl, beat shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla until creamy; beat in eggs. Gradually beat or stir in flour mixture.
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup peacans, chopped (optional)
2 tablespoons orange zest
Stir in chips, nuts and orange zest.
Freeze in desired packaging. This recipe will need to be frozen in mass rather than individual cookies as it does not freeze solid.
Baking instructions
Defrost in refrigerator. Preheat oven to 375. Drop dough by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake 8 – 10 minutes (chewy cookies) or 11 – 13 minutes (crispy cookies).
Enjoy!!!
Thanks!!!
This is from the Cooking Amoung Friends cook book; I highly recommend it!!!
Wendy
I don’t know about cookie dough but I got my meat today! Now I have to figure out how to cook it. I am going to make the fillets tonight before my husband leaves town in the morning. Wow! How cool! I am thrilled but not sure what to do next! Thank you Kathi and Open Space Meats.
A funny thing happened with this recipe Kathi~ I sent it to my neighbor and best pal at work one day last week. She came home and was baking some…and sweet sharing gal that she is, she popped over with some for us….just as I was taking the SAME cookies out of my oven ! She altered the recipe and added dark chocolate chips in hers…along with the white chocolate. (Jim said mine were better…!) I liked both versions !
I also have a cranberry upside down cake that is delish….much better than it sounds. Serve with whipped cream…to die for ! Made 2 the day
before Thanksgiving. I LOVE to bake…my family is always on a diet..
(I’m trying to gain…have been losing for no reason..since Sept at
Husband Project…have been sick since ! Pray for me about that !)
Anyway…no one wants my stuff…the diet gals…so I send it to work
with jim…mysteriously it disappears 🙂 I’ll send you that recipe if you’d
like !
XOX Happy first day of December…! I miss you gal !
Well, it has been awhile since I made cookies from scratch. I will think about it and get back to you today.
OK sylvia – I am going to have to try this out – for research purposes – of course…
Those ARE the best choc. chip cookies ever ! My neighbor made some and wow…they’re great !
My new favorite recipe…So good I am having one for breakfast !
Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chunk Cookies !
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2/3 Cup Butter, softened
2/3 Cup brown Sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 Cups old fashioned oars
1 1/2 Cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 Cup dried cranberries
2/3 Cup white chocolate chips or chunks
Directions
Preheat oven to 375
Using an electric mixer, beat butter & sugar together in med. bowl until light & fluffy. Add eggs, mixing well. Combine oaaats, flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Add to butter misture in several additions, mixing well after each addition. Stir in cranberries and white chocolate.
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto UNgreased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 minutes…or until brown (slightly…more will make them dry !)
Cool…makes approx. 2 1/2 dozen cookies.
Enjoy !
Interesting concept. I’d love to write in three weeks to see if people would be interested in sending cookie dough to a ministry that is just taking off for the under employed.