Doubletree Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup rolled oats
- 1 cup unsalted butter two sticks, softened
- ¾ cup light brown sugar packed
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 ½ to 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 large eggs
- 2 ¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips any kind you have
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Pulse the oats in a blender or food processor. In a bowl, combine the oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Whisk together and set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, add the butter and sugars. Cream until light in color, scraping the bowl as needed. Add the eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice.
- Add the flour mixture to the egg mixture and stir by hand until almost combined. Add the walnuts and chocolate chips and stir to finish mixing the dough. Don't overmix!
- Let the dough chill for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.
- When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350F and scoop the dough onto prepared baking sheets 2 inches apart. Bake for 13-15 minutes until done to your liking. Let cool on the baking sheet for 3 minutes, then remove to wire racks to finish cooling.
- Eat 5 at once. Enjoy!
Notes
- 1. I left the lemon juice out of this recipe and it was just fine.
- 2. The original recipe calls for 1 cup walnuts, but I use ½ instead and like that ratio a little better!
- 3. For a little extra health, swap one cup of flour for whole wheat flour - it works great!
Tried this recipe?Let me know how it was!