Have you even been to the Great Harvest Bread Co.? When I was a little girl, my mom and I used to stop there for a special treat – to get a loaf of their honey wheat bread, and a giant oatmeal cookie.
This recipe reminds me of that cookie – especially hot right out of the oven.
I add chocolate chips to my cookie because, who doesn’t love chocolate chips? But, you can easily leave the chips out, or add raisins instead.
Give these cookies a try if you are looking for a good recipe – and be sure to freeze dough balls of these, since I think they are best when they are right out of the oven.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies – Adapted from Colette John
Ingredients
- 1 C butter
- 1 C sugar
- 1 C brown sugar
- 2 well beaten eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 C white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 C all purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 2 1/2 C oatmeal
- 1 C chocolate chips
Note - If you double the recipe, use 1 1/2 C butter!
Directions
Cream together the softened butter and sugars.
Add the eggs and vanilla.
Next, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ones & mix until well combined.
Stir in the oatmeal – either by hand, or with the mixer.
Then, add the chocolate chips. I find these easier to stir in by hand.
Refrigerate dough for 1 hour, covered.
Then, scoop onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, or baking mat.
Bake 8-10 minutes at 350, until cookies look slightly browned on the outside edges. Allow cookies to sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and the transfer to a cooling rack.
Store in an airtight container.
Makes about 4 dozen with small cookie scoop.
I love oatmeal cookies! These look especially good. :)
ReplyDeleteThose cookies from Great Harvest Bread were the BEST!!! Like you it was a special treat for my mom & myself :) Great memories! I'm going to have to make up a batch of these soon!
ReplyDeleteThese are my favorite cookies!! Thanks for sharing.
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Wolfelicious
yes!! those look outrageous! thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThese sounds delicious and extremely similar to cookies I ate in childhood. I have a question that may seem silly to you; but, I'm not a baker by any means. What kind of Oatmeal did you use? The quick cooking kind? or some other type? Thank you for being patient with me. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreat Harvest are my FAVORITE store bought cookies! I would love to be able to make them (or something pretty darn close to them) since buying them often gets too expensive. Thanks for the recipe!!! :)
ReplyDeleteSo glad you have fond memories of Great Harvest! Thanks for sharing. And the cookies look great too!
ReplyDeleteDebbie @ Great Harvest
These sound so good! Making up a double batch tonight so I can share some tomorrow :0)
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