My favorite cookie recipe for AngAK: Lacy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches

sandi-in-hawaii

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This is my favorite cookie. It's a really thin, lacy cookie, where the sugar caramelizes, turns into crunchy wafers, and is sandwiched with a hint of chocolate. I usually would think that more chocolate is a good thing, but in this cookie, you really want just a hint of chocolate.

Trader Joe's has a similar cookie made with almonds instead of oatmeal, I think, but their's is not as crunchy. I like these better smileys/smile.gif

Lacy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches

Adapted from Cookies Unlimited by Nick Malgieri

8 tablespoons (4 oz.) unsalted butter, melted

1 cup (3 ½ oz.) rolled oats

1 cup (7 oz.) sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon orange juice

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted and cooled

Line 3-4 cookie sheets with buttered foil or silpat liners. Set the rack in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350º.

Melt the butter in a medium saucepan. Take the pan off the heat, then add the oats, sugar, salt, egg, vanilla extract and orange juice. Stir until well mixed. (The dough will be quite liquid.)

Use an immersion blender to stir the batter and chop up the oatmeal. (Alternatively, grind the oatmeal to a powder in a food processor until finely ground before adding it to the batter.)

Use a 1 teaspoon measure to drop the batter on the prepared pans, about 3” apart. (Cookies will flatten and spread a lot.)

Bake the cookies for about 8-10 minutes, or until they have spread and are brown around the edges and lighter toward the center.

When the cookies are completely cooled, peel them off the foil and arrange half of them bottom side up on a pan. Using a butter knife or an offset spatula, place some melted chocolate onto the cookie, top it with another cookie, forming a cookie sandwich. Carefully squish it together to spread the chocolate around.

Place the sandwiched cookies in the fridge for about 15 minutes, until the chocolate hardens.

Store the finished cookies between sheet of parchment or waxed paper in a tin or plastic container with a tight-fitting cover.

Double Recipe

8 oz. unsalted butter, melted

7 oz. rolled oats

14 oz. sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 teaspoons orange juice

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Re: In the recipes given for the Lacy Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie

In the first recipe it calls for 1 bag of chocolate chips and the second recipe doesn't say anything about chocolate chips. Do you use 1 bag or 2? TIA

 
Hi Sandy - probably a little more than one bag...

I usually kinda wing it. I use whatever chocolate I have at the time, and melt a handful at a time. When I start running out of chocolate, I'll melt another handful.

I sandwich the cookies as I go along, so by melting a little at a time, it's always spreadable.

That said, I'm sure that I don't use a whole bag of chips for the single recipe, but I think it's more than half.

Hope that helps!

 
These are so fantastic! They stayed crunchy for a week, even in Hawaii humidity.

Thanks a bunch Sandi. I see these in the future for gift giving.

 
thanks, I'm thinking of making little horns and filling with a Nutella cream.

I'm having a lunch tea party for the gals at work in my garden soon, and thought these would be perfect in rounds and as horns.

 
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