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    Home » Recipes » Amish Cookies

    Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Published: Sep 22, 2022 · Updated: Sep 29, 2022 by Kevin Williams | 10 Comments

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    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.

    Amish Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Jump to:
    • 🍪 Cookie Ingredients
    • 📋 Instructions
    • 🍪 More Amish Cookie Recipes

    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.

    Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

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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!

    Amish Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

    🍪 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

    1. Mix shortening, flour, sugar, eggs, hot water and vanilla together in a large bowl.
    2. Sift together flour, salt and soda.
    3. Stir well and add oatmeal, nut and chocolate chips.
    4. Chill dough overnight. (Optional, you can skip this step, flavor is enhanced by overnight chilling)
    5. Drop by teaspoon on a cookie sheet.
    6. 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

    Amish Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

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    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    •   1    Cup Shortening
    • ¾   Cup Brown Sugar
    •  ¾ Cup White Sugar
    •  2 Eggs beaten
    •  1 tsp. teaspoon 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.
    Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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    About Kevin Williams

    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    Comments

    1. Lorraine

      May 07, 2021 at 2:16 pm

      1 star
      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.
      Frustrated in Canada

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      • Kevin Williams

        May 07, 2021 at 4:05 pm

        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!

        Reply
    2. Debi Miller

      May 07, 2021 at 3:22 pm

      Can you substitute butter for the shortening?

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      • Kevin Williams

        May 07, 2021 at 4:06 pm

        Yes, Debi, I used butter, and they turned out well!

        Reply
    3. Eileen

      May 07, 2021 at 9:43 pm

      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

      Reply
      • Kevin Williams

        May 07, 2021 at 11:04 pm

        Thanks, Eileen, I will keep that in mind....I might need to buy a sifter!

        Reply
    4. Elizabeth

      May 13, 2021 at 6:48 pm

      1 star
      "Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies" contain NO butter, so how are they "browned Butter"????

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      • Kevin Williams

        May 13, 2021 at 11:10 pm

        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!

        Reply
    5. Ayesha Bayatly

      October 30, 2021 at 8:48 am

      Hi made these cookies eggless and they were extremely successful and very morish.Ate far too many of them in fact.

      Reply
      • Kevin Williams

        October 31, 2021 at 8:57 am

        Glad you liked them, though!

        Reply

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