White Chocolate Choco Chip Cookies ~ The Secret Recipe Club

It's the third Monday of the month of March and that means....
It's time for....

Yes, boys and girls the Secret Recipe Club, a club of bloggers who are assigned a blog for the month from which we are to chose a recipe, make it and post about it. The only catch, we can't tell the blogger we're "stalking" that we are doing so until our assigned reveal day, which is TODAY!!!

WOO HOO!

The leader of the club (and no, not the Mickey Mouse Club, people, geez) is April of Angels Homestead and the leader of our group, Group C is Debbi of Debbi Does Dinner...Healthy & Low Calorie. Theses ladies do a lot of work as do the other leaders and social media mavens. So, thank you all, ladies!!

Now onto the reveal...

The blog I was assigned for the month of March was...

{Sweetly} Serendipity

I really enjoyed Taryn's blog. She has a lot of great recipes that I want to try like the Lemon Cream Cheese Sticky Buns, Bacon Cheddar Scallion Scones, the Chocolate Strawberry Cannoli Crepes and her Quinoa Summer Salad, just to name a few. There are SO many wonderful recipes to try, but I also fell in love with Taryn's blog because she's from Massachusetts which makes her a fellow New Englander!! YIPPEE!!! 

The recipe I chose was Taryn's White Choco Chocolate Chip Cookies. The one I thought I'd chosen and had started making was her Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies, but after I'd added the flour thought to myself, "where the heck is the peanut butter?" Yeah, wrong recipe. No peanut butter, but they still turned out great.

In the midst of my baking, I neglected to get a final count of the cookies, but I'm thinking the dough made about 3 dozen or so.

White Chocolate Choco Chip Cookies

Ingredients

1/4 cup oatmeal, finely ground in a food processor

1 2/3 cup flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 egg

3/4 cup white chocolate chips

*I omitted the option to use the yogurt or sour cream.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the oatmeal, flour, baking soda and salt.
In the bowl of a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugars together till light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
Add the vanilla and the egg.
With the mixer on low, gradually add the flour until just combined.

Mix in the white chocolate chips.
Place rounded tablespoonfuls of dough on prepared baking sheet two inches apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until edges are golden.
Cool on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire rack  to cool completely.

Add the vanilla and the egg.

Gradually add the flour with the mixer on low speed, mixing just until combined.

Carefully. Because if you're not paying attention and pouring the flour in from the other side of the mixer, then this will happen. *sigh*

Mix in the chocolate chips.

Using rounded tablespoonfuls of dough, place onto prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart.

Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for a couple of minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

I rate everything I make on a scale of 1-4 with 4 being the best and these White Chocolate Choco Chip Cookies earned 3 rolling pins.

I loved how they were chewy because I LOVE chewy cookies.

And there were plenty of them for everybody!! That was the best part.

Even after I had this mishap...

SERIOUSLY?!?!

How many times have I baked cookies and taken them out of the oven now?

Don't I know that when you don't open an oven door all the way that you're not supposed to tip the cookie sheet to take it out?

Because inevitably, if you have the baking sheet lined with parchment paper that the parchment will SLIDE off the baking sheet sending the cookies into the bottom of the heated oven.

Ah yes, just another day in the life of Lynne.

I give you BIG baking hugs and muffins!!