King Arthur Flour Good as Store-Bought
Scaled down and slightly adapted version of the Good as Store-Bought cookies from King Arthur Flour.
Servings 35 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups oats, quick cooking or rolled, but not instant
- 4 oz chopped semisweet or milk chocolate
- 8 tablespoons butter, unsalted at room temperature (114 grams)
- ½ cup light brown sugar (110 grams)
- ½ cup white sugar (100 grams)
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup all-purpose flour, sift or spoon lightly or weigh (125 grams)
- ½ teaspoon each - baking powder baking soda and Morton kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon espresso powder
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- ¾ cup nuts pecans or walnuts, toasted and chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a food processor, grind the oats and chocolate together. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, beat the butter and both sugars until creamy. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, kosher salt and espresso powder, then add to the butter mixture and stir until blended.
- Stir in ground oats and chocolate, then stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
- Shape dough into mounds using a tablespoon measure. Arrange on a parchment lined baking sheet spacing 2 inches apart and bake for about 12 minutes.
- Let cool on sheet for 5 minutes.
Notes
For larger cookies (King Arthur calls them "mall size"), measure out ¼ cupfuls of dough and bake for 15 to 18 minutes. The yield should be somewhere around 14 cookies.