As for yours truly, there are few problems that chocolate can't, for a few moments at least, ameliorate. I like chocolate so much that, quite honestly, I tend to try to stay away from temptation. This is all well and good for a few hours, and then I usually give in and have some chocolate. In times of lean chocolate provisions I run for the chocolate chips, but my real preference is a brownie, or chocolate cookies like this. I also happen to love oatmeal, so I was pretty excited about the potential for greatness in these cookies.
That potential, though, is a tricky thing. Greatness lies dormant until it's unleashed; quite honestly, I think that the potential for greatness in these cookies is present, but it's released in Dorie's Chocolate Chunkers. The formulas are similar, but what comes up short in this cookie is realized in the Chocolate Chunkers. For those of you who don't know, Chocolate Chunkers are the ne plus ultra of chocolate cookies for both Dr. M and the Singleton. Perhaps if I hadn't made the Chocolate Chunkers I'd love these cookies because I did, in fact, like them. But I wished that they were the other cookies. The chocolate taste is close (so close) but the oatmeal interferes with the flavor of the cookie, and the fruit and chocolate in Dorie's Chocolate Chunkers just make the flavors of the cookie sing. (What if I wrote Chocolate Chunkers about 10 more times in this paragraph? Do you think it might get tiresome?)
Even though these cookies don't quite achieve the chocolate bliss of the chocolate chunkers, I did enjoy them. In fact, I even ate them for breakfast, and I rarely eat anything designated as dessert for breakfast. Then again, they do have oatmeal, and I'm certain that anything with oatmeal is fair game in the morning. Thanks to Caroline and Claire of Bake With Us for choosing this week's recipe.
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If you like the chocolate chunker (I am similarly obsessed), you need to try Flour Bakery's double chocolate walnut cookies...I made them yesterday but haven't blogged about it yet.
I am a big fan of the Chocolate Chunkers, too! Haven't made them in a long while, which is good, since I'm a bit chunky myself these days. And as a side note, your posts always make me smile! ;o)
My my my...
I'm so jealous when people can recall particular Dorie recipes they enjoyed so much. After all this time very few stick out to me as favorites - I blame my horrible memory and not the recipes, because I know I loved several of them. Your cookies look great :)
I covet your cookies as they look phenomenal. Mine just look like scoops of uncooked cookie dough, but baked... if that can make any sense at all!
But I'm with you on the magic wand business. Sometimes I wish that a hug could just cure the my love's ailments, big and small. And until that day comes, I will also pump them full of butter and chocolate to at least put a hello kitty band aid on it. :)
How are things?
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