(chocolate-chip oatmeal cookies)
These cookies are my favorite. The brown sugar-oatmeal flavor is very pronounced. The cookies freeze well…the recipe below makes about 4 dozen. (This recipe can be easily doubled.) The recipe comes from a cookbook written by Jeanne Lemlin called Vegetarian Pleasures, (1986).
1 cup unbleached white flour
½ cup whole wheat flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cups (1 & 1/2 sticks of butter), softened
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups rolled oats (non-instant oatmeal)
1 cupchopped walnuts
1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a cookie sheet (or use parchment paper).
- Combine the flours, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Cream together the butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl until fluffy. Add the flour mixture and mix well.
- Beat in the oats, nuts, and chocolate chips. (You might have to do this step by hand.) The dough will be crumbly.
- Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown. Be careful not to burn them. Thoroughly cool on a wire rack before storing in a tin.
