Special Restaurant Chocolate Chip Cookies

A friend shared this recipe. It's not your average chocolate chip cookie. Try it, you'll like it. The origin of the chocolate chip cookie was the Tollhouse Inn in Massachusetts - New England.

• Ready In: 36 mins
• Yields: 75 cookies

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup shortening
• 1  cup sugar
• 1  cup brown sugar
• 2  large eggs
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  cups flour
• 2 1⁄2 cups oatmeal, ground in a blender til it resembles flour (will make ~2 cups oat flour)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 12  ounces chocolate chips (1 large package)
• 4  ounces  Hershey chocolate candy bars, grated
• 1 1⁄2 cups  chopped pecans

Directions

1. Prepare oatmeal flour in blender.
2. Cream butter and sugars.
3. Add eggs and vanilla to creamed butter/sugar mixture.
4. In separate bowl, mix flour, salt, oat flour, baking soda and baking powder.
5. Add to creamed butter mixture and mix well.
6. Add chips, grated chocolate and nuts.
7. Make 1 1/2 inch balls and space them 2 inches apart on baking sheet.
8. Bake at 375° for 6 minutes. Check them.
9. If just starting to crisp and brown, remove them. If not, check every minute or two.
10. Let rest a couple of minutes and remove to a rack to cool.