It’s a rainy, cold, dreary day here in the heart of the Midwest, and I have been busy trying to play catch up. Well, it looks like I have caught up and found myself wanting to bake. Normally on this type of day, my go to recipe is chocolate chip cookies. But today, there was a memory rattling around in my brain. It was these cookies that I used to make when I was in grade school that were rich and chewy and chocolatey. A minimum amount of effort found me my cherished recipe, written in my round school girl script.
Ahh, Mrs. Field’s cookies. Or as my Aunt who introduced them to me Million Dollar Cookies, because that is how much all the ingredients would cost to make them. Not really, but they are rich, and incredibly delicious. Here is the recipe, straight from my grade school self.
- 1 cup Butter (2 sticks) softened
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 2 cups Flour
- 2.5 cups Oatmeal, pulsed in food processor
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 bag Chocolate Chips
- 1 8 oz plain Chocolate Bar
- 1.5 cups chopped nuts (optional)
Preheat the oven to 375
Mix together the flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a large bowl and set aside.
Cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs and vanilla until well mixed.
Stir in the flour mixture until just combined. Grate the chocolate bar over the bowl using a microplane grater. Add the chocolate chips and nuts if you are using them and gently stir until just barely mixed.
Scoop out ping-pong sized balls of the dough and roughly shape into a ball. Place on an unlined, ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 6-8 minutes. Remove the cookies when they look slightly underdone.
Grab one while it is still warm with a glass of cold milk and enjoy!
