It’s important to know one’s limitations. I have very little skill in the kitchen. Clearly, not why my husband married me. So when my daughter, Mini-Me, found this easy recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies that has very few ingredients, and from start to finish takes less than fifteen minutes, she had my attention.
I’ve experimented with recipes before that make all kinds of promises and leave me with something dull or inedible, so I wasn’t expecting much from this one.
And boy was I wrong.
Everything about them is beautiful and smells delicious. If I could bottle and sell their aroma I would. They taste so divine I don’t mind the calories. At. All.
Though, lucky me, they’re fairly low in fat and calories anyway. I made a few changes to the original recipe. When I’m being really healthy I swap dark chocolate chips for golden raisins. And when I’m being really bad, I use both. Why not?! They cook fast. Real fast. The recipe calls for 6 minutes, though I leave them in for a full minute longer so the edges are nice and crispy. Also, I double the recipe because it’s a small batch and will disappear in seconds…like magic.
As tempting as it may be to eat them hot right off the baking sheet – don’t. They will fall apart completely if not cooled. So don’t touch.
It’s one of the few things, okay, the only thing, my husband begs me to make him. It’s a crowd pleaser for sure. And as always, if I can do it, so can you.
For the recipe for these yummy cookies, go to Linda Wolff’s blog, Carpool Goddess
Linda Wolff
Linda Wolff writes the lifestyle blog Carpool Goddess where she explores life in the empty nest now that carpool is over. Follow Linda on Facebook and Twitter and see for yourself that midlife's not so scary.
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