The first thing I noticed was the amounts in the recipe, it makes a huge batch of cookies, which is brilliant if you have a large family like me. Normally i have to double up recipes as there are seven of us, so it made a nice change to come across a recipe i didn't have to do that with.
After mixing the butter and sugars i had something that looked like this........
Then you added the eggs, water, and vanilla essence to the creamed mixture. In a seperate bowl there was some flour, baking powder and salt evenly mixed togther which was also added to the mixture.
After adding the oats and chocolate chips ( i actually used 2 large bars of chocolate, one white and one milk chopped into chunks) i had a huge, huge mound of cookie mix.
I put large spoonfuls of the mixture on trays and cooked them for the time stated, but ended up cooking them for longer as i felt they weren't done enough.
They were left to get cold on the baking paper as they were quite gooey, they firmed up as they cooled. I managed to get over 40 large cookies out of the mix as they spread out a lot while cooking. The smell had the kids hovering around the kitchen, itching to know what I was cooking.
The verdict was unanimous amongst the kids that they were mega nice and would want me to cook them again, so i guess thats a keeper. They lasted all of a day with the kids constantly in and out of the tin! They were rather moorish and I couldn't help dipping in and out of the tin either........ they were crispy, yet chewy and were a cross between flapjacks and cookies. They go brilliantly with a cup of tea.
If i made them again i would make them smaller and add more chocolate, and if you are a smaller family i would advise you to halve the recipe, but apart from that they were really good. Thanks Nik :)
Feel free to add comments, or ask questions :)
Till next time,
Lara \m/
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