Chocolate Chip Cookies

It was drizzly on Monday and a little cold. My daughter wanted to go to the park but I told her it was too wet. Then, she asked to go to the Children's Museum in Boston but I told her it was 3,000 miles away. So, when she asked to make cookies, I had to say yes.

This recipe was buried at the end of a long post about when I was making the decision last year to go without white flour and sugar for awhile and I thought it was worth posting again. While there is a half cup of sugar and some chocolate chips, there's no white flour. If you don't care so much about sugar, up the quantities of the white and brown sugar to 1/2 cup each. I make them small, give away part of the batch, and limit my daughter and I to only a couple a day.

Chocolate Chip Cookies about 2 dozen

3/4 c. oats
1 c. whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. butter, softened
1/4 c. oil
1/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put the oats in the blender and grind them until they're a flour-like consistency:


Mix the dry ingredients together. With a mixer, cream the butter and the sugars. Add the egg, oil, and vanilla. Add the dry mixture to the butter mixture and stir until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop batter onto a baking sheet and bake for about 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Lick the remaining batter off of the spoon: