Packed with a whopping 3 cups of oats, these salted oatmeal chocolate chip cookies turn out crispy with big chunks of bittersweet chocolate.
I’ve gotten pretty boring when it comes to breakfast.
Everyday it’s the same thing: a smoothie with blueberries, spinach, chia seeds, peanut butter powder and coconut water.
Even on the weekends when I have more time, I still reach for the blender to drink my first meal of the day.
Not too long ago, I would alternate my smoothie with oatmeal. I love overnight steel-cut oats, but making dinner and then lunch for the next day consume my evenings.
Overnight oats of any kind are super easy, but sometimes I can’t bring myself to make yet another dish for a future meal.
On occasion I will microwave old-fashioned oats in the morning, as I get ready for work.
Instead of fruit, a lot of times I go for a simple sprinkle of sea salt and a splash of almond milk.
If you’ve never tried salt in your oatmeal, I highly recommend it. I just save the fruit for a mid-morning snack, folding berries into a bowl of yogurt.
When I baked these salted oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I did not have breakfast on the brain. My goal was to clear some lingering oats out of the pantry. Pre-spring cleaning!
The recipe calls for a whopping 3 cups of oats, which make the dough kind of crumbly.
Besides oats and flour, the dry ingredients include cinnamon and allspice.
After chilling the dough in the fridge overnight, it can be even more tricky to work with.
Just be patient and use your hands to clump it together into balls. A cookie scoop helps, too.
I press down each dough ball gently with my palm before I put the sheet pans in the oven. Right when the cookies finished baking, I sprinkled them with flaky sea salt.
Finishing deserts with salt is something I get very excited about because I love salty and sweet in one bite.
The cookies turn out crispy with lots of big chunks of bittersweet chocolate.
PrintPacked with a whopping 3 cups of oats, these salted oatmeal chocolate chip cookies turn out crispy with big chunks of bittersweet chocolate.
Adapted from Food52
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