Have you ever made a recipe on the side of a bag of chocolate chips? This recipe is one of those and at first when you consider it the only ingredient you might not have is Nutmeg, and maybe chocolate chips, unless you buy a bag to sneak a snack handful here and there.
It was from a Ghiradelli bag of Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips.
At the 2025 BPOU Convention on February 22, 2025, someone asked me why I didn’t make these. I had made the Chewy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies, and the Healthified Chocolate Chip Cookies and it didn’t occur to me to make another recipe batch. 8 Dozen cookies should cover a convention right?
Ingredients:
A 1 1/4 Cup Butter Softened (2 1/2 sticks of butter)
B. 3/4 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
C. 1/2 Cup Sugar
D. 1 Egg
E. 1 Tsp Vanilla
F. 1 1/2 Cups Flour
G. 1 Tsp Baking Soda
H. 1/2 Tsp Salt
J. 1 Tsp Cinnamon
K. 1/8 Tsp Nutmeg
L. 3 Cups Oats (Old Fashioned)
M. 12 oz semi sweet chocolate chips (2 cups)
N. 1 Cup Nuts or Krispies (Optional)
Directions:
- Cream A, B, C until light and fluffy
- Beat in D & E
- Sift in F, G, H, J, and K
- Add L and mix by hand
- Add M to the mixture
- Add N (optional)
- Drop by small spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet
- Preheat Oven to 375 F
- Bake 8-9 minutes for chewy, 10-11 minutes for crisp cookies
- Cool on wire rack.
Makes about 5 dozen 2 inch cookies.
Visual Ingredients & Directions
A.1 1/4 Cup Butter Softened (2 1/2 sticks of butter)
B. 3/4 Cup Packed Brown Sugar
C. 1/2 Cup Sugar
D. 1 Egg
E. 1 Tsp Vanilla
F. 1 1/2 Cup Flour
Often I will put the measuring cup in the first level of my cupboard so I don’t have to bend down to determine the level.
G. 1 Tsp Baking Soda
H. 1/2 Tsp Salt
J. 1 Tsp Cinnamon
K. 1/8 Tsp Nutmeg (I had bought a bag of nutmeg once and I thought it would be easier to put it into a bottle. So when I had emptied out a Cinnamon bottle I used that to keep the nutmeg in)
L. 3 Cups Oats (Old Fashioned)
M. 12 oz semi sweet chocolate chips (2 cups) I use Mini chips as there’s a better chocolate distribution, but use your favorite kind.
N. 1 Cup Nuts or Krispies (Optional) not shown as I don’t like nuts in cookies (my brother is allergic to peanuts so we never had them in the house)
Visual Directions
1 Cream A, B, C until light and fluffy (Butter & Sugars)
2. Beat in D & E (Egg & Vanilla). Years ago I did a survey for McCormick Vanilla and I found that more vanilla in cookies is better than what regular recipes call for. So I eyeball the amount to add.
3. Sift F, G, H, J, and K (Flour, Salt, Baking Soda, Cinnamon, Nutmeg)
Sift and stir in the FGHJK dry ingredients
Add L and mix by hand. Mix in oats a little at a time.
Add M to the mixture. I use mini chips so that every cookie has a good amount of chips in them.
Add N (optional)
Drop by small spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet
Preheat Oven to 375 F
Bake 8-9 minutes for chewy, 10-11 minutes for crisp cookies
I use the French Silpat Silicon Baking Mats. They allow for even baking, quick cooling, no stick cookies, and it’s a snap to clean up. They are worth every penny you spend on them.
Cool on wire rack.
Enjoy
— Tom Polachek, HD 66B Republicans Chair 2017-2023
Our former Chair brings homemade cookies to share to our conventions. In 2020 our Convention was via Zoom, so he posted the cookie recipes for our delegates to make at home. — admin
Minnesota House District 66B Republicans 