Best Chocolate Chip Cookies- Perfected

We have been making the same Chocolate Chip Cookies
for a long time.

Creamed butter and sugars, don't be skimpy, really let this FLUFF

And it's the only one we have all agreed to be
the best of the best!
Well one day, while getting to know some of my
now favorite food blogs,
I came across this ultra delicious cookie recipe
by my ultimate favorite Brown Eyed Baker!

Dry ingredients added to fluffy butter & sugar

And I moved on, and the old recipe moved out!
But than someone who will remain nameless

Really? Nameless? No way Kori :)

wanted to serve Chocolate Chip Cookies for her
birthday/ going away party...
and she wanted the old recipe
GASP!!

I use happy helping little hands for the chocolate grating

She said she missed the oatmeal-
Is she SERIOUS!! BOOooo! 

Today we used grated dark and white chocolate bars

In goes the grated chocolate bar

Okay, okay,
I am a rational mother
and caught up in the emotion of wanting
to do right by this child,
after all she IS moving her Senior year and
leaving everything she has worked for behind
for this move-
so I decided we would compromise,

Make them decadent, go for Ghiradelli- you WILL notice a difference

I would take the old recipe,
apply Miss Brown Eyed's tips and tricks
and voila
we'd both be happy!!

I've already eaten so much dough, I need a glass of milk

Fingers and toes crossed for our success.

the final stirs & licks- get the cookie sheets ready

It worked and they were better than I expected.
If you are a lover of oatmeal in your  Chocolate Chip Cookies,
this is the recipe for you!

We made 150 cookies- EVERY one of them was gone!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 c. butter                                                                                           

2 1/2 c. brown sugar

1/2 c. white sugar                                                                                

5 c. oats ( blend into powder form, ends up being less than 5 c. after blending)

4 eggs

4 c. white flour     

2 t. baking soda

2 t. baking powder

2 t. vanilla

1/2 t. salt

1 lg. Hershey bar, grated             

2 bags Ghiradelli chocolate chips

Cream together the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Put the oats in a blender and blend until they became a coarse flour.

In separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients including the oats but not the chocolates. Combine dry ingredients to sugar & butter mixture. Add the grated chocolate bar and the chocolate chips. I know some people may argue, but with this recipe, you will notice a difference in chocolate chips, go for it and use the good stuff. You and everyone else will thank you later. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. Barely light golden brown- NO MORE. Let them cool for 5 minutes on the pan and than remove to finish cooling on a rack. They will continue to cook, so do NOT over cook in the oven. VERY IMPORTANT! Say it out loud so you don't forget

It is no mistake that this is a big recipe- you will eat more than ONE!