A Week Of Cookies: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

Yes, the name of these cookies is a mouthful, but when you get a mouthful of these cookies you will see their taste lives up to the big name. These cookies also have a lot of healthy ingredients in them and really would make a good breakfast food. If you don't like walnuts, you replaced them with pecans or just leave out the nut element. 

I found this recipe in a cookbook written by Christopher Kimball, the host of America's Test Kitchen, called The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook. As with most recipes, I tweaked it to fit my family's taste and the resources I have on hand. The recipe calls for the cookies to baked on parchment paper. After trying to use the parchment paper without any hassle, I gave up on it and just put them on a baking sheet. 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

• 1 1/2 cup of rolled oats
• 2 sticks of butter, softened but firm
• 3/4 cup of white sugar
• 3/4 cup of brown sugar, packed
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract
• 2 cups of flour (I use 1 cup of white and 1 cup of wheat.)
• 3/4 tsp of salt
• 1 tsp of baking powder
• 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 12 oz bag of milk chocolate chips
• 1 1/2 cup of walnuts or pecans (chopped)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

 

Blend the 1 1/2 cups of rolled oats in a blender until very fine. 

 

Beat butter and the sugars until light and fluffy. Add an egg, one at a time, beating after each addition, then add the vanilla.

 

In another bowl, whisk together the flour, blended oats, baking powder, and salt. 

 

Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture and mix until combined. 

 

Add the chocolate chips and nuts. Blend them into the batter by hand. 

 

Form into 2 inch balls. Bake on a baking sheet for 14 to 15 minutes until the bottom is light ly brown. 

 

Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes, before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely. The cookies will harden as the cool. 

 

Like most cookies these are good dunked into a glass of cold milk, a cup of hot chocolate, or a cup of coffee. Enjoy! 

 

Living a simple kind of life and enjoying those simple treats that can be found in it!