Helen's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies |
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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 40 Minutes |
Ready In: 50 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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There are lots of chocolate chip oatmeal cookie recipes out there, but this is the one I use, and none of the others had quite the same proportions of ingredients. I got this from my mom (Helen). They're equally good with raisins instead of chips, and I love walnut pieces added (but my son doesn't, so I usually skip those). Cooking time is for 5 successive cookie sheet's worth of baking/resting/removal. Ingredients:
1 cup margarine, softened |
1 cup brown sugar (packed) |
3/4 cup white sugar |
2 eggs, beaten |
1 teaspoon vanilla |
1 1/2 cups flour |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
1 teaspoon baking powder |
1 teaspoon salt |
3 cups quick-cooking oats |
12 ounces chocolate chips |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350° Cream together margarine and both sugars.
2. Blend in eggs and vanilla.
3. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; blend thoroughly.
4. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
5. (I use my mixer for this part too!) Drop by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake 7 minutes.
7. Leave cookies on sheet to rest 2 minutes, then remove to cooling area.
8. (I remove them to brown paper to absorb a little of the grease- I just use the inside of a grocery bag, cut and flattened out.) (Cookie sheet should be cool when putting the dough on. Since I only have one sheet, I rinse the sheet w/ cold water and dry each time I take some cookies off.).
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