Everything oatmeal cookies.

These are almost my favorite cookies to make. I dont remember where I got the recipe from, though its a pretty basic oatmeal cookie. Extremely easy and very tasty, if they make it to the cookie sheets to bake. What? You dont eat cookie dough? Im sorry, we can no longer be friends. But not really. I refer to these as a dump cookie. As in when I make them if there is something in the kitchen that looks like a good idea I dump it in.

So this is only todays version, but put what ever you feel like into yours. These are actually gift cookies for one of my awesome friends Cindy who drew up a preliminary sketch for a new tattoo. Her work permanently on my skin, my cookies forever on her ass. I think its a good trade.

8 tablespoons(one stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon ground clove
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1 of those small packets of chopped pecans
1/2 of those small packets of sliced almonds
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment or a Silpat (I need more than 1 of these, I hate parchment). Using an electric mixer, beat the butter in a bowl until light and fluffy. Add both sugars, salt, and vanilla, and beat until well mixed. Stir in eggs, one at a time. Sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove in a separate bowl. Add half of the flour mixture to the butter with the mixer on low speed. Once the flour has been incorporated, add the second half. Stir in the oats, pecans, almonds, and chocolate chips. Drop the dough, by the tablespoon, onto the cookie sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden. Remove from the oven and cool the cookies on a rack. Store at room temperature in an airtight container.


So go make some of these for yourself and you will thank me, your ass wont but your mouth will. Or those of you close enough could sweet talk me and I just might make some for ya.