Oats Part 1: Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This weekend brought another strange craving similar to the one I had when I desperately wanted pound cake, which resulted in the sinful lemon pound cake. Said craving was for any baking containing oats, so I went all out and came up with two different creations. These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies were the first. To be honest, I kind of wanted oatmeal raisin but boyfriend is a weenie and doesn't like raisins. That being said, you could easily substitute the chocolate chips for raisins as I purposely put cinnamon in this recipe to facilitate a proper switch up.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups of oats (I used the large flakes)
1 cup of semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate because that's what the man child ordered)


DIRECTIONS

1) Preheat oven to 325F. In your stand-up mixer, cream the butter and both sugars until smooth. Add in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla, and mix until well blended.

2) In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the mixer and mix until combined. Stir in the oats, and the chocolate chips by hand.

3) Drop onto baking sheets using a teaspoon, or I prefer to use an ice cream scoop. Bake for 12 minutes or until just golden brown on the edges for chewy cookies. Let cool on the baking sheet for approximately 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.