chocolate chip – Flourishing Home with Hannah

Here in Virginia we get a lot of rain! I am not used to all this rain because we lived in California just a few short months ago……and it hardly rains there. We are absolutely loving Virginia and hope to stay for a long time. Luckily we have a gym where we live so I can still be active indoors instead of the normal outdoors. I have to workout a lot so I can eat a lot. Ha!

Today I make some really yummy cookies, it was a new recipe and I will post it on here soon. It was peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies. I know, I make a lot of cookies but I can’t help it. They are a family favorite! Here is a sneak peak Athlon they came out.

Right now I am in the process of making my own version of flautas, I am really excited! This is my first time and it’s not all the usual ingredients. I like to change things up. I will post the recipe and how they came out later tonight. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far, I know we are! Stay tuned for the cookie recipe and the flautas recipe 🙂 this is a sneak peak picture of one ingredient in the flautas.

See you again soon! Live happy and always live simple!

I have been searching for a really good oatmeal raisin cookie recipe and I finally found it….but added a few things. I hope you make these and enjoy them as much as our family is.

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon

1 cup unsalted butter (I leave mine on the counter all night or during the day to naturally soften)

1 cup sugar

1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly pressed

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla (sometimes I add 3 tsp, more the better )

3 cups oats (regular oats not instant)

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cup raisins
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mix together; butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla.

Whisk together; flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and add to wet ingredients. To help the flour from being over mixed I mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients with a wooden spoon. If you mix the flour ingredients to much it will make the cookies flat and harder.

Add chocolate chips, oatmeal and raisins. Mix slowly and not to much.

Use a cookie scoop to on baking sheet. I have three different sized cookie sheets and on the biggest one I have 3 cookies across and 5 cookies down.

Cook for 12-14 minutes. Since I put in 3 baking sheets I rotate the cookie sheets so the cookies cook evenly.

Take out, place on a cooling rack and try not to eat to many ha ha