Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie - AKA Doubletree Hotel Copy Cat Cookie

So, ever since I tasted a Doubletree Hotel cookie I have been obsessed.  If you have never had one, it is simply cookie perfection.  No really, it IS!!!!!!!

So in my quest to find a good copy cat recipe, I stumbled upon Food Geeks interpretation of what a Doubletree Cookie tastes like.  It’s not exactly it, but it sure is close.  REAL CLOSE!

Ingredients:

¼ cup rolled oats

1 cup + 2 tbsp all-purpose flour

¾ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

pinch of cinnamon

½ cup of unsalted butter

¼ cup + 2 tbsp brown sugar

¼ cup + 2 tbsp white sugar

¾ tsp vanilla

¼ tsp lemon juice

1 egg

¼ cup dark chocolate morsels

½ cup semi-sweet chocolate morsels

½ cup milk chocolate morsels

½ cup coarsely chopped pecans

Directions:

~ Preheat oven to 325 degrees (I’m a low and slow gal)

~ Grind rolled oats in a food processor until fine

~ Combine flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a bowl and set aside

~ In the bowl of an electric mix, cream butter, sugars, vanilla and lemon juice

~ Add egg and mix until combined

~Scrape down sides if necessary

~ Add flour mixture and mix until combined

~ Fold in chocolate chips and nuts

~ Chill dough for 30 minutes or overnight (I did 30 minutes, I just can’t make a cookie dough today and eat it tomorrow – sooooo not my style)

~ Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and scoop dough onto sheet

~ Bake for 15 – 20 minutes

~ Remove from oven, let cool and enjoy (in my case IMMEDIATELY!)

Stay Sweet!

Peanut Butter Lover

Sooo, I’m somewhat of a snob when it comes to certain foods.  Peanut Butter is one of them …I only eat Peter Pan peanut butter and the only candy I eat with peanut butter is the Reese Cup.  I know, pretty lame for someone that proclaims to like sweets…but stay with me.

In early 2007, when ConAgra had that huge recall, I thought it was the end of PB&J, PB and Apples, PB and Celery and just plain old enjoying Peanut Butter from the jar.  But….luckily that didn’t last. 

BUT what’s even more awesome is that I found a peanut butter that I like that isn’t PETER PAN!  Crazy, right?!  As a matter of fact, I LOVE THIS PEANUT BUTTER!  Where has it been all my peanut butter lovin’ life?

White Chocolate Wonderful

WHITE CHOCOLATE WONDERFUL!  And it’s just that!  They also have other flavors – I tasted a few a couple weeks ago at the cooking expo in DC.  They were all wonderful!  And thanks to a good girlfriend, I have two jars and a peanut butter cookbook!  

Man oh man does she know the way to my heart!  I heart her….and I heart peanut butter!

Check it out at Peanut Butter & Co.

Get some! No really!

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