Chocolate Chip Cookies on a Stem

This is PERFECT for your honey on Valentines Day.

• Ready In: 2 hrs 30 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 12 cookies

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter, softened
• 3⁄4 cup  packed brown sugar
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1  large egg
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 2  cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 1⁄3 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1 (12 ounce) package chocolate chips

Directions

1. 24 pieces of hard wood dowel 1/4' diameter cut to 12'.
2. In a bowl cream together butter, sugars with a mixer.
3. Beat in egg and add vanilla.
4. Mix together flour, soda, baking powder and oats. Blend well with butter mix.
5. Stir in chocolate chips.
6. Shape into 24 walnut-sized balls.
7. Assemble 1 at a time on a greased baking sheet.
8. Set ball at 1 of narrow ends, insert dowel into center of ball.
9. Then pat dough into 2 1/2 rd; keep dowel in center of rd and covered by dough.
10. Repeat, placing rds about 2" apart.
11. At opposite end of cookie sheet, center dough between dowels. A pan holds 5-6 cookies.
12. Bake at 375° for 15 minutes.
13. Slide spatula under each cookie to release from pan.
14. Leave in place for 5 minutes, then carefully lay cookies with dowels on cookie racks.
15. To wrap, enclose each cookie in plastic wrap and tie with ribbon to keep airtight.