Our office used to host a cookie exchange every year. In the weeks (okay, months) leading up to it, we’d talk a lot about cookies. We’d scroll through recipes, reminisce about past favorites, and swap ideas about cookies. I had a short list of contenders one year, but scrapped the whole thing when I came across this recipe.
There were several reasons it appealed to me:
- It looked easy.
- It looked tasty.
- I had almost everything on hand to make it.
I really wanted to change the name though. I even posed the question to my Facebook friends. Suggestions included “Double Chocolate Oatmeal Delights,” “Catch ’Em and Keep ’Em Cookies,” “I’m Already Taken Cookies,” and “Happily Ever After Cookies.” Since I’m already married, I considered “So Good He Put a Ring On It Cookies.” I also kept thinking of that old episode of Designing Women where the girls sing “Wedding Bell Blues,” so I kind of wanted to call these “Come On and Marry Me Bill Cookies.” But my husband isn’t Bill and we worked in the same building at the time, so I didn’t want to start any rumors.
So, I didn’t rename the cookies. Pardon me for just putting you through a pointless story.
The cookies are a cross between a chocolate chip cookie and an oatmeal cookie. I really enjoyed them, and they were all claimed in record time at the exchange. It’s definitely a keeper recipe.
I Want To Marry You Cookies
1 cup butter
1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups flour
1 cup uncooked rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 325 F.
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter completely over medium heat. Remove from the heat.
Add the brown sugar and granulated sugar and stir until sugars are incorporated and smooth. Chill the mixture in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Remove from the refrigerator and stir in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla.
Add the flour, oats, baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and cinnamon and mix together
Stir in both kinds of chips.
Roll by hand into 24 dough balls or use a scoop (I like using a scoop to make sure they are consistently sized), and chill for 30 minutes. You can place your dough balls on a cookie sheet to do this, or you can do what I did, which was to layer them in a bowl with wax paper between each layer.
Remove the cookies from the refrigerator and bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Cool on cookie racks. Enjoy!
You will also want to try my Brownie Mix Cookies and my Peanut Butter Cup Cookies.
From the heart and from the holler,
Minda
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