{"id":203,"date":"2014-07-03T21:32:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T04:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/?p=203"},"modified":"2014-07-03T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T04:32:53","slug":"oatmeal-double-chocolate-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/oatmeal-double-chocolate-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oatmeal Double Chocolate Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had already posted about my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like I have. And I&#8217;m not going to! Okay, maybe I will someday. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my signature dessert and I&#8217;m not ready to share just yet. But oatmeal double chocolate cookies are another matter (and closely related, you could probably figure out the one from the other).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leighadactyl\/14562318972\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2939\/14562318972_df3e5184bf.jpg\" alt=\"oatmeal double chocolate cookies\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more keep reading...--><\/p>\n<p>These came to be because I found out I probably need braces again to close my open bite (which, I was told, is due to the way I use (and rest) my tongue, but I&#8217;ll go into the details of that personal humiliation at another time or place). This is a major bummer because I already had braces when I was a pre-teen and now I&#8217;m a 31-year-old mom who&#8217;s new in town and trying to make friends without looking like an adult brace face weirdo. The orthodontist said, &#8220;You&#8217;ll need braces for two years.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;That&#8217;s such a long time!&#8221; And she said, &#8220;Well just think of how long your life is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was feeling really depressed when I got home and needed to do some major chocolate eating. We had some regular oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough in the freezer but that didn&#8217;t seem chocolatey enough.<\/p>\n<p>My oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe is based on the Quaker Oats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quakeroats.com\/cooking-and-recipe\/vanishing-oatmeal-raisin-cookies.aspx\">&#8220;Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies&#8221;<\/a> recipe that&#8217;s printed on the inside of the oatmeal tub lid. These double chocolate cookies are a modification of that single chocolate version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oatmeal Double Chocolate Cookies<\/strong><br \/>\nInspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quakeroats.com\/cooking-and-recipe\/vanishing-oatmeal-raisin-cookies.aspx\">Quaker Oats<\/a> and braces<br \/>\nTime: 1.5 hours<br \/>\nYield: 2 dozen<\/p>\n<p>1\/3 c white sugar<br \/>\n1\/3 c brown sugar, lightly packed<br \/>\n1 stick butter<br \/>\n1 egg<br \/>\n1 tsp vanilla<br \/>\n1\/3 c (scant) white flour<br \/>\n1\/3 c (scant) wheat flour<br \/>\n1\/3 c natural cocoa powder<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp baking soda<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp salt<br \/>\n1 1\/2 c oats<br \/>\n1 c bittersweet chocolate chips<\/p>\n<p>Cream sugars and butter, add egg and vanilla.<br \/>\nMix flours, cocoa, baking soda and salt (I just sprinkle these on top of the creamed mixture and then mix well).<br \/>\nStir in oats and chocolate chips.<br \/>\nChill dough, preheat oven to 350.<br \/>\nBake 10-12 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Dough can also be frozen in balls and baked later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had already posted about my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like I have. And I&#8217;m not going to! Okay, maybe I will someday. Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my signature dessert and I&#8217;m not ready to share just yet. But oatmeal double chocolate cookies are another matter (and closely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leighadactyl.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}