I have no idea when or where we got this recipe, or if the story is true, but we've had it for my entire extended life of 20 years.
It's really, really easy to follow, and plays in with my not loving to meticulously measure things. You can put a little more or less of pretty much any of these ingredients and they'll still turn out delicious.
So, for the sake of having a few more words, I'll describe the process.
I usually half the recipe. Cause I don't know about you, but I do not need 112 cookies.
That is far too much temptation, right there.
Maybe if you're having a party, or giving the away as gifts.
Start out by getting two large mixing bowls. One for dry ingredients, one for wet.
Grab your oatmeal and blend it up to really small, basically powderifying it. It calls for 5 cups, so I make 3 1/2.
It has to be 3 1/2 of blended oatmeal, not just normal oatmeal. That's important.
Once that's blended and the correct amount is in your dry mixing bowl, put in the rest of the dry ingredients.
Halfing it, so 2 cups of flour, half a tsp of salt, and one tsp each of baking powder and baking soda.
Have all those? great. Now grab a spoon and roughly stir those together. And no, I do not mean be really rough (as in violent), I mean you don't have to stir so perfectly that every single thing is mixed to amazing perfection.. Not a huge deal if it gets perfectly mixed, you just want them mostly mixed.
Now on to the wet ingredients bowl. Toss in your butter, Halfing would be 1 cup, which is usually two sticks of butter. 16 oz.
I suppose if you're trying to be healthy you could sort of skimp on that, but if you're trying to be healthy, why are you making cookies?
Halfing it, add one cup each of brown and normal white sugar. Grab your mixer, and start mixing!
Got that pretty well mixed?
What's half of 2 tsp's vanilla extract? 1 tsp? Good job! Add that.
And grab two chicken babies to put in, too. Again, if you want to be healthier you could take out the yolks, but this is seriously not a healthy recipe, so why are you here?
Got that all mixed up? Now slowly add some dry mix into your wet mix, half a cup at a time is easiest, if you put more than that it tends to puff up in your face and you're breathing flour/oatmeal/baking soda/powder/salt air. Less pleasant than normal air, so I'd avoid that. Small amounts at a time.
Now just mix all that up until you've combined both of them.
Once it's all mixed, toss in your chocolate chips and ground up Hershey bar. I don't usually add nuts, but that's up to you, you nutty people.
Preheat your oven, that helps speed things up a bit. It's easiest to have two cookie sheets, that way you can be rolling cookie balls while the others are cooking. It says 6 minutes, and that is usually what I start at, but in order to get that slightly crunchy crust and soft gooey inside, I usually have to cook it for 2-4 more minutes. Depends on how you like your cookies, though. You could do more, you could do less.
Now take'em out, let'em cool, put'em away, and eat'em! Not all at the same time, though. That might be unhealthy.
This is one out of four plates of cookies, all equally as full. I didn't count, but even halfing the recipe, you end up with a lot of cookies.
Congratulations! You now have cookies! Share them with your friends, for they are amazing and delicious, and your friends will love you forever.
Or at least, until you run out of cookies. Then you're no your own.
Ciao
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