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Love chocolate and love to bake and cook? Wow... you're at the right place!
Try out our current Chocolate Recipe of the Month, plus
submit your favorite chocolate recipe, along with your name, city, state and e-mail address and share your secrets with fellow chocoholics.
If your recipe is selected as the recipe of the month, you not only gain world wide fame and recognition, but you'll also win an all expense paid ;-)
Be Popular, Win new friends and Influence people! Bring some "Made em Myself" chocolate goodies.
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Ingredients
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- 1 cup butter at room temperature (margarine ok)
- 1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup oatmeal (regular rolled or quick cooking, but not steel cut)
- 12 ounce bag of good quality semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips, or bars, chopped
- Optional: 1 cups chopped walnuts, pecans, or macadamia nuts
- Optional: substitute a bit of whole wheat flour for some of regular flour
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Directions
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You will need a stand mixer to make these cookies, although if the butter is soft enough,
a hand mixer may work. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease cookie sheets or
have non-stick cookie sheets ready.
- Cream butter and both sugars together until creamy.
- Stir in vanilla and eggs, mix.
- Add salt, flour, and baking soda. Mix.
- Stir in oatmeal, mix. Add chocolate chips stir.
- Add optional ingredients. Stir.
- Drop rounded spoonfuls onto greased or non-stick cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 minutes.
These cookies will spread a bit, so cool a bit, then remove with spatula to cool.
Note: for larger cookies, drop larger spoonfuls and bake a bit longer, 14 or 15 minutes.
Note: A one-inch ball will spread to a two-inch cookie, and two-inch ball will spread to a three-inch cookie.
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Besides enjoying these cookies yourself, you can also use them to thank others,
show your appreciation or motivate kids to get them to start on some chores.
Enjoy!
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