#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.