#259_Mrs Johnson's Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Mrs Johnson's Chocolate Chunk Cookies

I tweaked Mrs Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie original recipe,
by modifying some of the ingredients, thereby
making the cookies somewhat different.
So now this modified version of the recipe belongs to me, hence,
Mrs Johnson's.

Here's the original
Mrs Fields recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
2. Cream butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla until very smooth and fluffy.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. In a food processor, blend oatmeal until fine. Add to flour mixture.
4. Stir butter mixture into flour/oatmeal mixture. Blend well.
5. Add chocolate chips and walnuts. Stir until blended. Roll into golf balls size and bake for 8-10 minutes. You do not want to over bake these.

.......and here's Mrs. Johnson's

I used some Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and a Hershey bar
instead of chocolate chips morsels

Coarsely chopped candy bars

I used half butter and half shortening.

Here's the changes I made:

1) Reduced the white sugar to 1/2 cup since the peanut butter cups are too sweet already.
2) I used 1/2 cup cold butter and 1/2 cup butter-flavored Crisco shortening
3) I replaced the chocolate chips with 2 cups chopped candy bars.
4) Toasted the walnuts in 350 degrees oven for 8 minutes
5) I only used 1/2 cup ground oats
6) Chilled the dough before baking.

Mrs Johnson's recipe

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 shortening
  
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cups rolled oats
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups coarsely chopped candy bars
  
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

1) Toast walnuts in pre-heated 350 degrees oven for about 8 minutes. Set aside to cool.
2) Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
3) Cut cold butter into small cubes then cream together with shortening and sugars with a hand-held electric mixer until smooth. Stir in eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth and fluffy
4) In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. In a food processor, grind the oats until fine then add to flour mixture.
5) Stir butter mixture into flour/oatmeal mixture until well blended.
6) Add the chopped candy bars and walnuts. Stir until all ingredients are just blended.
7) Refrigerate dough to chill for at least an hour.
8) Roll chilled dough into golf ball size. Bake for 8-10 minutes in a pre-heated 350 degrees oven.
9) Cool cookies on wire racks.

There's one caveat:

These cookies are highly addictive!!
if you know you can't stop
after 5 pieces, better not make these cookies....
Second thought: awww, make them anyway
and share them with your friends.

#179_Peanut Butter Cookies: Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Chocolate Chip Cookies
without the chips!

In one way these are chocolate chip cookies
and in another way they are not.
I don't know if I'm making any sense,
but here's what I did...

I substituted Reese's Peanut Butter Clusters
and Hershey's chocolate bar
in place of chocolate chips called for in Mrs. Field's Cookie recipe.
The result?? OMG, melt-in-your-mouth goodness!

These cookies are so soft, moist and chewy
and are actually better than chocolate chips cookies
as long as you don't over bake them.
Better yet, they are so easy to make...
if you can boil water, you can make these cookies.
Just use any chocolate chip cookies recipe
that you might already have, leaving out the chips

then replace the chips with a bag of Reese's Clusters
and a king size Hershey's chocolate bar.
Chop them up and mix them in the cookie dough mixture.
(I just had to reduce the sugar called for in the recipe
as the clusters have plenty of sugar in them already).

A Caveat: very addicting!

Chocolate Chunks Cookie
Caramel oozing out from the clusters.


The taste-testers!
These are my little neighbor friends...
patiently and eagerly and xcited to try the cookies.

Jackson and Kennedy

Careful, the cookies are still very hot!


.....and their little sister, Reagan
Mmmmm!! Super Good!

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