Chocolicious Cookies

I opened my cookbook to check out my chocolate chip cookie options, when I took note of one called, Great Chocolate Cookies but decided to give it  a makeover. In reading it, you will probably guess at the changes. When the grands came over after school, and I told them the cookies needed a name, one of them responded with "Chocolicious!" So, hence the name, by a nine-year-old! I like that they come out a little like a brownie bite. These are nut free and great for school box lunch treats.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter, soft
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup unbleached flour
• 1 cup multigrain or whole wheat flour
• 1 pkg (113 g/ 4 oz) instant chocolate pudding
• 1 cup oats
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Method:

1. In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar well, then beat in the eggs and vanilla. 
2. Add combined flour, pudding mix, baking powder, soda and oats;  then chocolate chips. (I use a stand mixer with hook attachment for quick, easy stirring)
3. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto greased cookie sheets. They do not spread much. 
4. Bake at 375° F for 8 minutes. Bake slightly longer if you make them larger, but do not overbake. Flatten slightly with spatula as soon as you remove them from the oven.  Let cool on sheets. Yield: 48 cookies

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