Whole Wheat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Whole wheat and oats give this twist on a classic a delightful nutty flavor.
Servings 4 dozen cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 C Brown sugar
- 1 1/4 C Granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 C butter softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 -3 C whole wheat flour
- 2 1/2 C rolled oats
- 2 1/2 C Chocolate Chips Or a mixture of chips. The ones pictured have chocolate chunks and salted caramel chips.
- 1 1/2 C Chopped pecans optional
Instructions
- Cream butter & sugars until light and fluffy.
- Beat in eggs & vanilla.
- Stir in dry ingredients with the minimal amount of flour. Then add chocolate chips and nuts (if using). If the dough seems really sticky, add a little more flour up to the full 3 C.*
- Stick the cookie dough in the fridge and preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Once the oven is preheated, pull the cookie dough out of the fridge.** Scoop rounded tablespoons (or use a cookie scoop) onto an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, pull them while they still look slightly underdone but are just starting to brown on the edges.
- Allow to sit on baking sheet for a minute or two before transferring to a cooling rack.
Notes
*The last few years we've been grinding our own flour and find we need to use a little more of it, likely due to how fluffy it is.
**This little rest in the fridge should help the dough firm up a bit and is more important if your kitchen is warm or you're baking in the summer. Keeping the dough from being to soft will help the cookies from spreading too much in the oven. If your butter was really soft, you may want to leave the dough in the fridge for up to an hour.
Freezing the cookies - This recipe makes a lot of cookies. If you are unprepared to deal with all four dozen of them, there are two easy ways to freeze them. The first is to form the dough into balls, put on a cookie sheet, freeze for an hour, and then transfer to a freezer safe bag. No need to thaw before baking, just add an extra minute or two to the bake time. The second is to bake the cookies and then freeze extra. My favorite method is the uncooked method.