Chocolate chip cookies are about the easiest cookie you could possibly make. And there are so so so many variations in your basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. You could sit down with 100 Amish bakers and get slightly different recipes from each person. Some will add walnuts. Some will add brown sugar. Some will add, blech, raisins. Now, to me, once you start adding other stuff to a chocolate chip cookie it’s not a chocolate chip cookie. In fact, this Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe is borderline in my book because it contains oats…
This, however, is a pretty darn decent cookie, though. The dough took only about 10 minutes to mix up. Most Amish bakers will tell you to chill cookie dough overnight, so that’s what I did. It seemed to have a nice effect. Chilling the dough allows the flavors to really meld and ingredients to do their work.
This cookie dough was really easy to work with, I would just recommend you use clean hands and roll the dough into balls, and put on the cookie sheet. The original recipe that I had called for a spoon, but the dough after it has been refrigerated overnight gets pretty solid and it’s hard to carve out spoonfuls.
This Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe comes to me from an Amish woman in Daviess County, Indiana, a large Amish settlement on the border with Illinois. Again, a very easy cookie, but a very good cookie. Enjoy!
Butter and brown sugar are what you start with. Later, the recipe says to sift the flour and baking soda together. Who has time for that? I never sift. When I was a kid, I used to love using the sifter, but I haven't used one in 40 years. The cookies turned out fine without sifting, but do it if you'd like. There must be some reason.
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By the way, I used whole wheat flour in this and I think it was a nice touch. You can use either.
This is a really delicious, basic chocolate chip cookie...the oats are actually a nice touch, but probably anathema to chocolate chip cookie purists!
🍪 Cookie Ingredients
- 1 Cup Shortening
- ¾ Cup Brown Sugar
- ¾ Cup White Sugar
- 2 Eggs, beaten
- 1 tsp. Hot Water
- 1 tsp. Vanilla
- 1½ Cups Sifted Flour
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 1 tsp. Baking Soda
- 2 Cups Oatmeal
- 1 package chocolate chips
📋 Instructions
- Mix shortening, flour, sugar, eggs, hot water and vanilla together in a large bowl.
- Sift together flour, salt and soda.
- Stir well and add oatmeal, nut and chocolate chips.
- Chill dough overnight. (Optional, you can skip this step, flavor is enhanced by overnight chilling)
- Drop by teaspoon on a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
🍪 More Amish Cookie Recipes
Keturah's Chocolate Chip Cookies: very Amish cookie recipe
Amish Boiled Cookies: A no-baked delicious one!
Grandma's Graham Cracker Cookies: Amazing!
Iced Buttermilk Cookies: So good!
Amish Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Shortening
- ¾ Cup Brown Sugar
- ¾ Cup White Sugar
- 2 Eggs beaten
- 1 tsp. tsp Hot Water·
- 1 tsp. Vanilla·
- 1½ Cups Sifted Flour·
- 1 tsp. Salt·
- 1 tsp. Baking Soda·
- 2 Cups Oatmeal
- 1 package of chocolate chips
Instructions
- Mix shortening, flour, sugar, eggs, hot water and vanillatogether in a large bowl
- . Sift together flour, salt and soda.
- . Stir well and add oatmeal, nut and chocolate chips.
- Drop by teaspoon on a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.
First recipe calls for nuts but no chocolate chips, second one has chocolate chips but no nuts. I have had a lot of problems with your Amish recipes. There are recipes you forget the eggs or it is the wrong amount of flour. Now I just don't try them. To bad, some of them were quite good.
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Sorry, Lorraine, stick with me...this new website format is still a learning curving for me....there are especially glitches when I seem to code in the word "eggs", not sure why. I did correct the recipe!
Can you substitute butter for the shortening?
Yes, Debi, I used butter, and they turned out well!
When it comes to cakes, pancakes etc. You NEVER want to skip sifting when it asks you too. Trust me, baking for 10 people in a family, it makes a HUGE Difference. Even my husband, who happens to be blind would know. Cookies are great, spoon method works and is easy: I could do it at 6 years old
Thanks, Eileen, I will keep that in mind....I might need to buy a sifter!
"Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies" contain NO butter, so how are they "browned Butter"????
First of all, just to clarify, they are called "brown sugar" chocolate cookies, and they do contain brown sugar. As far as butter goes, the recipe calls for shortening, which can be butter, but you could also use Crisco. Or even lard. This is a really good cookie!