{"id":29544,"date":"2012-03-17T08:25:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=29544"},"modified":"2012-03-04T18:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T02:29:47","slug":"gooey-chewy-chocolatey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=29544","title":{"rendered":"Gooey, Chewy, Chocolatey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was craving chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I’d been craving them for probably months, but hadn’t gotten around to making them because I try not to have treats in my house like that. I can handle a half batch of this, a few candy bars here and there, but to bake some cookies and have them in the house taunting me is something I try to avoid.<\/p>\n

The last cookies I made were the Valentine’s sugar cookies for Michael<\/a>. Ever since then he’s been mentioning how much he wanted some cookies. One Saturday afternoon when the weather wasn’t great and we had no plans to speak of, I decided we’d bake some cookies together.<\/p>\n

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The only change I made to the recipe was\u00a0substituting\u00a0the Splenda\/Sugar Blend instead of using straight sugar. I love using the blend. It saves on calories and doesn’t taste WEIRD like some sugar substitutes can taste.<\/p>\n

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If you haven’t tried baking with the Splenda\/Sugar Blend, give it a try. I’ve been using it for years and no one can tell the difference. In fact, Michael was helping me make the cookies and he said “eeew don’t use that.” I kindly informed him that he hadn’t noticed the difference in anything else I’d made and he said okay. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This was the first time I tried to make cookies in the Kitchenaid Mixer. It went smoothly most of the time, then when the dough got really heavy (after I added the flour, oats and chocolate chips) it started to rock a little bit. I had to stop it a few times to scrape the dough off the spinner. I also scraped inside the bowl with a spoon to make sure it was mixing everything (it missed some spots). But all in all, using the mixer was pretty easy.<\/p>\n

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While it was mixing I did have to add a few tablespoons of milk because the dough was dry and crumbly. It got to the desired texture and I let it sit in the fridge for a few hours while we had dinner. The dough was easy to work with and tasted just right!<\/p>\n

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Using the Splenda Blend saved about 20 calories per cookie. As for the cinnamon…I’ve always added cinnamon to my recipes even if the recipe didn’t call for it because I think a dash of cinnamon adds something to cookies. When I read how much cinnamon was used in THIS recipe I did a double take. It seemed like a lot but….it worked. It was delicious.<\/p>\n

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When it was time for dessert, I baked just enough cookies for us to have that evening and saved the rest. I crossed my fingers that the dough would keep for a little bit because I didn’t want to bake the entire batch that evening.<\/p>\n

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The cookies were plump and sweet. I could taste the cinnamon and it was delicious, not overpowering. Cookies fresh out of the oven are the best!<\/p>\n

QUESTION: What’s your favorite cookie?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was craving chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I’d been craving them for probably months, but hadn’t gotten around to making them because I try not to have treats in my house like that. I can handle a half batch of this, a few candy bars here and there, but to bake some cookies and have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[311,55,68,72,314,104,107,152,178,212,262,1095],"tags":[376,2088,5705,8611,8613,516,3012,5706,8732],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_5194.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29544"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29627,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29544\/revisions\/29627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}