Secret Recipe Chocolate Chip Cookies
photo by FLKeysJen
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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4 dozen cookies
- Serves:
- 24
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup white sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 1⁄2 cups nuts (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. The original recipe suggests lining the baking sheets with parchment paper. I use my silicone liners. But they have also turned out great without using any lining at all. Combine oats, flour, baking soda,and salt in a mixing bowl.
- In a larger bowl cream butter, sugars, vanilla and lemon juice, using an electric mixer. Add eggs and beat until light and fluffy.
- Stir the flour mixture into the egg mixture, blending well. Add the chips and nuts, mix well.
- Place dough by rounded tablespoons onto cookie sheet about 1-2 inches apart.
- Bake the cookies until lightly browned, about 10 minutes.
- Remove from cookies sheets after a couple minutes. When completely cooled store in a sealed container to keep them soft and chewy. In fact i think they are even better the second day.
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Reviews
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These are good looking...whiter in color like from a bakery, and quite delicious! The texture is definitely crisper than typical chocolate chip cookies - closer to a sugar cookie but not quite. I brought these to a meeting where I was told only to take beverages because snacks never get eaten, yet I left with an empty tray! Great recipe!
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This is an absolutely wonderful cookie recipe. I used a mixture of white and dark chocolate chips, and slivered almond for the nuts...the resulting cookies were beautfully soft and chewy, and more than a little addictive.<br/>They started disappearing at an alarming rate off the cooling racks ( and that was just me, before the kids got a whiff of them!!).<br/>Just delicious,....this is a real winner,thanks for sharing.
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Delicious cookies that are soft, chewy and substantial in size. I made these exactly as posted, except I realized I was out of semi-sweet chips, so I used half dark chocolate and half milk chocolate. I also used chopped hazelnuts and chopped walnuts, as that is what I had on hand. Surprisingly, these cookies are not too sweet. They make quite a few, too (I ended up with 46). Thanks for sharing this great treat!
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Super terrific cookies! I love the softer texture of these cookies as normally I find an oatmeal based cookie a bit drier but not these!! Outstanding mixture and I followed the instructions completely outside of omitting the nuts. Love how much chocolate is inside. Using a standard small cookie scoop I received 46 perfectly round cookies! I followed your advice too and did not grind down the oats but left them whole. Took all of 5 minutes to throw together using the mixer and then baking time. Quick and simple with wonderful flavors!! Family is snapping them right up too! So glad I tagged you in Went To the Market tag game.
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<p>I am a stay at home mom with 5 wonderful children. When I have time I love to scrapbook and journal. I also crochet and do cross-stitch and enjoy reading my Bible. Sometimes I am all into trying new things then other times I only want old standbys. I like to get veggies into my picky kids by sneaking them in where they were not expecting them. I've learned that its improtant to try new things 2 or 3 times before you can really consider it rejected. Sometimes the second time you offer it to them they will scarf it down, when the first time they barely got down the mandatory taste bite. Go figure.</p>
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