Chocolate Chip Cookies--Peanut Butter Oatmeal
Here's a great combination in a cookie--chocolate, oats, AND peanut butter!
Chocolate Chip Cookies – Peanut Butter Oatmeal (Heritage Recipe)
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
½ cup margarine
½ cup peanut butter
½ tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 tsp. baking soda (reduce to ½ tsp. for high altitude)
¼ tsp. salt
1 cup flour
½ cup instant oats
1 cup chocolate chips
Cream margarine, sugars, peanut butter, vanilla, and egg until creamy. Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in the chocolate chips. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes (13-15 minutes). Cool for a minute on the cookie sheet before removing the cookies. Grandma Beverly Wessman’s favorite chocolate chip recipe.
Tiffany's Notes: The note that this was my grandmother's favorite cookie has always intrigued me. Who knows the story behind that note? And did her favorites change over the years?
I can't make a cookie recipe this small so I tripled it (one this size would be gone in a day in my family). It worked well. I made and chilled the dough and then pulled it out to bake when I had time. The cookies didn't spread the first batch through the oven. So, I simply flattened the subsequent batches a little and they baked nicely.
I tried a new kind of chocolate chips. When I saw these I decided they needed to be tried--anything that adds large amounts of chocolate to a cookie sounds good to me!
For my triple batch I used a package of the Hershey's Baking Melts and an additional 1 cup of regular sized chocolate chips. They are good! But, they are a bit harder to work with (scoop and shape cookies) than the regular chocolate chips.
Melinda's Notes: (added 11/11/12) Her favorites may have changed over the years! Grandma gave me this recipe one time we visited her after I was married — so sometime after 1994. I had asked her for another recipe, and when she was looking for it, she pulled out a recipe card, and said "This is my favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe!" Of course, I had to copy it down and add it to the cookbook. It's so funny that I remember exactly that moment, standing at the end of the kitchen island, but can't remember when we were visiting.
Who got Grandma's recipe boxes?
Chocolate Chip Cookies – Peanut Butter Oatmeal (Heritage Recipe)
½ cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
½ cup margarine
½ cup peanut butter
½ tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 tsp. baking soda (reduce to ½ tsp. for high altitude)
¼ tsp. salt
1 cup flour
½ cup instant oats
1 cup chocolate chips
Cream margarine, sugars, peanut butter, vanilla, and egg until creamy. Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Stir in the chocolate chips. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes (13-15 minutes). Cool for a minute on the cookie sheet before removing the cookies. Grandma Beverly Wessman’s favorite chocolate chip recipe.
Tiffany's Notes: The note that this was my grandmother's favorite cookie has always intrigued me. Who knows the story behind that note? And did her favorites change over the years?
I can't make a cookie recipe this small so I tripled it (one this size would be gone in a day in my family). It worked well. I made and chilled the dough and then pulled it out to bake when I had time. The cookies didn't spread the first batch through the oven. So, I simply flattened the subsequent batches a little and they baked nicely.
I tried a new kind of chocolate chips. When I saw these I decided they needed to be tried--anything that adds large amounts of chocolate to a cookie sounds good to me!
Melinda's Notes: (added 11/11/12) Her favorites may have changed over the years! Grandma gave me this recipe one time we visited her after I was married — so sometime after 1994. I had asked her for another recipe, and when she was looking for it, she pulled out a recipe card, and said "This is my favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe!" Of course, I had to copy it down and add it to the cookbook. It's so funny that I remember exactly that moment, standing at the end of the kitchen island, but can't remember when we were visiting.
Who got Grandma's recipe boxes?
I've never seen those in a store, but that's the shape of chocolate called for in the NYT chocolate chip cookie recipe, isn't it? I might have to make these (but with regular chips) since I have a bit of a jar of peanut butter left that no one seems to want to use.
ReplyDeleteHer favorites may have changed over the years! Grandma gave me this recipe one time we visited her after I was married — so sometime after 1994. I had asked her for another recipe, and when she was looking for it, she pulled out a recipe card, and said "This is my favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe!" Of course, I had to copy it down and add it to the cookbook. It's so funny that I remember exactly that moment, standing at the end of the kitchen island, but can't remember when we were visiting.
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