What You Will Need
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1 cup oats (quick or old-fashioned, uncooked), divided
1 cup semisweet chocolate morsels, divided
What To Do
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugars until creamy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract and beat well.
- In a separate bowl let the kids combine 2 cups of the flour, baking soda, and salt, and mix togeather.
- Let the kids stir the dry mixture into the batter.
- Divide the dough evenly between 2 bowls.
- The children can mix in the baking cocoa into one batch and the remaining 2 tablespoons of flour into the other.
- Let the kids stir 1/2 cup of oats and 1/2 cup of chocolate morsels into each batch.
- Then cover and chill both doughs 2 hours or overnight.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees.
- To shape the cookies, combine 1 tablespoon of each dough into a golf ball-size ball, twisting or smoothing the doughs together, the kids love this step!
- Place the balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10 to 11 minutes or until the light-coloured dough is golden brown.
- Allow the cookies to cool 2 minutes on the cookie sheet, then transfer them to wire racks to cool completely.