I looked at a few recipes and this one excited me because it called for molasses and cinnamon. It also happened to be quick, which suited me because I didn't have much time before dinner to make the dough. After quickly biking back to my apartment* for eggs and chocolate chips, I was ready to test these cookies.
Without further ado, I present Taste of Home's Oatmeal Chips Cookies recipe.
Oatmeal Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
- In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the molasses, egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Roll into 1-1/2-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: about 1-1/2 dozen.
My comments: Maybe it's because I haven't had oatmeal cookies in a long time, but they tasted more... earthy(?) than I had expected. In a good way, though, especially when combined with chocolate chips. I didn't have enough semi-sweet chocolate chips so I ended up using about 1/3 cup of milk chocolate chips. I made smaller cookies, and managed to get out at least 3 dozen decently sized cookies. Their cookies must be mutant.
Overall, it was a great recipe. I didn't really notice the cinnamon but several of the movie-goers did, and loved it.
*I know you wouldn't expect biking weather near the end of January... but following a week of ~0 degree weather (fahrenheit...), we had two days of temperatures in the fifties. This melted all the snow/ice and gave me perfect weather to take my bike out for the first time in months.
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