So y’all know I dig baking.  Lately in the evening JJ looks at me and says, “Bake cookies?”  How can I say no to that?

I really enjoy baking cookies.  They’re quick, they smell good, and people make yummy noises.  Cakes are finicky, pies are messy, and bread — well, bread has that whole “living thing called yeast” in it, and the yeast *knows* if you’re scared of it (which I am).

But I’ve had issues with oatmeal cookies.  They spread with these nasty clumpy oats all over the place.  Or they’re a lump (she’s lump, she’s in my head), and nobody makes yummy noises for lumps.

This evening, however, I’ve found a winner.   I’m simply linking to the recipe instead of copying because a) Little A is sleeping and therefore I should be, too and 2) I’m lazy.

But, in typical Dren fashion, I did change a few things.

• No orange peel - too messy.  I used a dash of orange extract.
• I used three extra large eggs instead of four large eggs (when Freddies has a buy one/get one free coupon on eggs, you don’t question the size:  you accept and make due)
• No pecans.  Not that I wouldn’t enjoy adding them.  But others in the home are not fans of nutsinfoods.  And we’d best keep the peace, especially since the cookies are packed up to go to his work tomorrow.  Plus, I don’t have *real* pecans (i.e. from Georgia):  my southern relatives (living and dead) would not allow anything less to enter their abodes, so neither should I.
• I used white chocolate/chocolate swirled chips with a few white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chips thrown in.  Oooh, living on the edge.

Enjoy!

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