Period Cravings LETS BAKE🍪🍪
Homemade because I like knowing what’s in my food 💅🏾
INGREDIENTS 📝
1 cup all-purpose flour 120g
1/2 tsp baking soda 3g
1/2 tsp salt 5g
1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature, 113g
1/3 cup pure cane sugar 65g
2/3 cup pure cane brown sugar 140g, packed
2 tsp pure vanilla extract 10mL
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups rolled oats 135g
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips 150g
*plus more if you want to top the cookies with hem before baking. makes the look prettier 😍
INSTRUCTIONS 👩🏾🏫
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda; set aside.
• Combine the butter with both sugars; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Reduce speed to low; add the salt, vanilla, and eggs.
• Beat until well mixed, about 1 minute.
• Add flour mixture; mix until almost combined.
• Stir in the oats and chocolate chips. Chill dough for one hour to overnight.
• Preheat oven to 355-375 degrees. Ovens Be Different lol
• Use a small ice cream scooper (two tablespoons) to
• Drop heaping tablespoon-size balls of dough about 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
• Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven, and let cool on baking sheet 1 to 2 minutes.
• Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool completely.
NOTES 📝
Measure your flour correctly! Adding too much flour to the recipe is the most common mistake. The best, and easiest way to measure flour is by using a scale. If you don't have one then fluff your flour with a spoon, sprinkle it into your measuring cup, and use a knife to level it off.
Chilling the dough is optional but it created a cookie that spreads out less, concentrates the flavor and dehydrates the dough a bit as well.
Your cookies are done when the edges start to brown, The centers will not be raw but they aren't fully set either.
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