Saturday I wanted chocolate cookies for myself–preferably with nuts–so I needed to make something else Grandmom could eat. (She complains that she eats too many sweets if I make cookies for her, but complains that she makes sweets she can’t eat if I don’t. So I err on the side of making cookies.)

Earlier this year I bought the King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking book, primarily to try and get more whole grains into Michael’s diet. I’ve tried a couple recipes, and they’re pretty good (though I prefer the unbleached flour sweet rolls), but grandmom really liked the Chewy Oatmeal cookies, so that’s what I made for her.

These cookies are very chewy and almost spice cookies as much as they are oatmeal cookies.

Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
3/4 cup butter
1 1/4 cup brown sugar
3 tbsp corn syrup
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1 1/3 cup oats
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
9 ounces dried cranberries

350 F for ~14 minutes.

Cream butter and sugar. Add corn syrup, baking soda and powder, salt, and spices. Beat in the vinegar and vanilla. Beat in the egg. Add the oats and flour. Add the dried cranberries.

1 tbsp of dough on cookies lined with parchment paper (or well-greased, these are sticky cookies).

Bake cookies 14 minutes, reversing sheets half-way through.

King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking

What did I make for myself?

Chocolate Chubbies

From The All-American Cookie Book, by Nancy Baggett

I had a problem with this cookie–the recipe said to place the dough drops 2 1/2 inches apart, so I was expecting the cookies to spread.

They didn’t, so I ended up leaving the cookies in longer than they should have been.

Still delicious, however.