Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe was found in my sister-in-law's recipe box. This cookie recipe is from a newspaper clipping by Joycelyn Winnecke, Scripps Howard News Service
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Ingredients
- 2 cups butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 5 cups oatmeal ground to fine powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 8 oz bar semi-sweet chocolate grated
- 24 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips (4 cups)
- 3 cups chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla.
- In separate bowl, whisk together flour, powdered oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Stir dry ingredients into butter and egg mixture until well incorporated.
- Add grated chocolate bar, stir.
- Add chocolate chips and nuts, stir until well combined.
- Roll cookie dough into 1 inch balls and flatten slightly to ½ inch.
- Place balls 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake 6-10 minutes or until bottom just begins to brown.
- Once removed from oven, let cool on cookie sheet for about 3 minutes, then remove to cooling rack.