La vie est belle

Guess what time I decided to bake some cookies yesterday!!?? 9 pm at night! I would normally relax on my bed at this time but I had an urge to bake something. I ended sleeping at nearly 11 pm (unlike my usual 10 pm). This morning however, I awoke at 6 am without any problem and I managed to go for a 50 minute of tempo run at the back of my place. Oh and I’m not feeling lethargic like I did in the past few days! I guess my post-period days are over.

Back to my cookies … So I followed both Oh She Glows and  Darlene’s recipe. Thanks for posting the recipe!  My cookies tasted great and were very soft and chewy — the most chewy cookies that I’ve ever baked. However, they were runny and flat.

Here they are, cookies Batch No 1. Runny and flat but tasty and chewy!!

It was so chewy and soft that it was hard to remove them from the pan. As a result, the cookies became really messy and ugly. So I decided to turn them into bars. I placed Batch No. 1 into a loaf pan and pressed them firmly till they stuck together. Then, I placed them into the fridge overnight.

The next morning …

This is how they looked like. They managed to hold together pretty well eh.

I present you my Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Bars :)

After Batch No. 1 sorta failed, I thought it could be because I didn’t allow enough space in-between the cookies. So for my Batch No. 2, I allowed slightly more space in-between each cookie.

Unfortunately, Cookies Batch No. 2 turned out the same! They were easier to be removed from the pan though (I sprayed some cooking oil to the pan after Batch No. 1). I turned them into big and ugly cookies. I tried to make them into squarish cookies but it wasn’t really that easy.

Flat cookies hehe. You can’t tell  how chewy they are in these photos.

Well, I still love those chewy cookies despite being runny & flat. This recipe is definitely going into my recipe note book :)  Next time I will cut the brown sugar and white sugar to 1/2 cup each as the original ones are too sweet. I will also reduce the temperature to 325 F and add some extra flour to the batter to avoid the runny-and-flat problem, as were suggested by some reviewers.

Here is the recipe for the Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup margarine, softened
• 3/4 cup white sugar (I will cut down to 1/2 cups next time)
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar (I will cut down to 1/2 cups next time)
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 3/4 cups rolled oats
• 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (you can add raisins or nuts too)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. In large bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
4. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Gradually beat into butter mixture.
6. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
7. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
8. Bake 18 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.
9. Cool slightly, remove from sheet to wire rack. Cool completely.

Tags: baking, cookies

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