A Balanced Diet is a Cookie in Each Hand

So I'm pretty sure every family has a version of this cookie, but we call ours 'Urban Legend Cookies'. Usually the background story is something like a women tries a cookie at a great restaurant and asks for the recipe. The waiter tells her she can buy it and it costs 'two-fifty' or 'three-fifty', etc etc. She thinks it's $.2.50, but it's actually $250, and she can't get her money back, so she sends the cookie recipe to everyone she knows to get revenge. Unfortunately, the story that goes along with it isn't true, but the cookie is AMAZING. It is a bit time consuming, but 100% worth it!

Recipe: Urban Legend Cookies

Makes: about 5 dozen cookies

Recipe originated from: My grandmother, however it's all over the internet

Compliments: Milk. When these are straight out of the oven you can not resist them. The smell is intoxicating and the look of them make your mouth water.

Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups flour
- 2 ½ cups rolled oats
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 4 oz milk chocolate, grated
- 1 ½ cups chopped walnuts (optional)


Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375º
2. In large bowl, cream together butter and sugars. Beat in the eggs one at a time, and then stir in vanilla.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, oats, salt, baking powder and soda. Stir dry ingredients into creamed butter and sugar.
4. Add chocolate chips, grated chocolate and nuts.
5. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto un-greased cookie sheets. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes in the preheated oven.

The grating of the chocolate usually takes a while, and it will get all over your hands, but it's worth it. It makes ribbons of chocolate that run through the whole cookie. Also, the first time I made this recipe on my own (I was probably about 11 while visiting my grandparents vacation home in Kentucky) I didn't realize you were supposed to put the oats in a Cuisinart and make then into a flour like powder, so I just dumped them all in. We ended up liking the cookies that way better, so it stays that way in my recipe. These cookies work much better as small cookies, rather than large, and they stay pretty round. Make sure to refrigerate the dough between baking! Otherwise it gets mushy and runny. Just stick the mixing bowl in the fridge and only pull it out to put cookies on the cookie sheet. I know 5 dozen seems like a lot, but they really are little and they are so delicious they won't last that long.

Abby xx