Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

I’m not sure if I was looking in the wrong place, but it seems I had a hard time finding a chocolate oatmeal cookie recipe.  I could have just made up my own recipe, or a sort of Frankenstein combination, if you will, of a few different cookie recipes, but just as I was about to give up and do that, I found what I was after at Hershey’s Kitchens.

A dark chocolate cookie with oats and chocolate chips!  I used Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa powder for these, and replaced the nuts in their recipe with semisweet chocolate chips.

These cookies are so dark!  I had a little trouble baking them, as I found that the middles stayed quite gooey, which made me want to bake them longer, but that resulted in a crunchier cookie.  They’re actually quite chewy, and very chocolatey, although they become a little crunchier anyway the next day.

Oddly enough, the kids weren’t too fond of these; they’d eat about half of a cookie and leave the rest.  That was fine with me though, it left more for the rest of us!  :)