Happy Thursday friends! Today I am sharing you with my absolute favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. I actually can’t believe I haven’t shared it with you before now! And while I realize there are probably a bajillion CCC recipes online, this one {in my opinion} is still the best.
I realize at first glance that this seems like your typical cookie recipe but I’ll let you in on a little secret: You add a shredded Hershey Bar!! You. Guys. I can’t even make other CCC recipes because they just don’t compare and believe me when I say, I have tried! 😉
Seriously Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies {with a secret trick}
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar firmly packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 cups ground oatmeal {Use a blender or food processor. Measure BEFORE grinding}
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 12 oz of chocolate chips {I prefer semi-sweet}
- 4 oz of Hershey Chocolate Bar
Instructions
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Cream together your first 3 ingredients
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Add your eggs and vanilla
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In a separate bowl, combine the rest
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Add to your creamed sugars
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Mix everything together well but try not to over mix
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Add your chocolate chips and shredded chocolate bar
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Roll into golf-ball sized balls
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Bake at 375 for 9 minutes
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Don't over bake!
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{When it comes to shredding your chocolate bar, you can use anything from a cheese grater to a chopper to a blender.}
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Enjoy!!!
It doesn’t get much better! I could hardly keep them out of my kids hands to take the pictures! Enjoy!
xoxo
Why do you grind the oatmeal?
I’m not entirely sure! Ha! That’s just how I’ve always done it. I think it’s just to give the cookie extra flavor and texture without the bulky oatmeal. Hope this helps! xo
I make this same recipe and it is absolutely the best!!!
I know these cookies are absolutely delicious because I use the same recipe…which came from my husband’s dear sweet aunt. I wrote about it here: https://ourmtnest.wordpress.com/2016/06/28/baking-with-bluebird-aunt-beas-special-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Add a small box of French Vanilla Pudding to this recipe. Also, use Guittard’s Chocolate Chips. I like the taste of them better than the others.
Try adding crumbs from your box of frosted mini wheats instead of the oatmeal. (or crush them up if you aren’t quite done with the box of cereal) You’ll never go back to your old recipe.