DoubleTree Hotel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

Grind:

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 2/3 cup chocolate chips

Put into grinder and grind until oats are a coarse powdered flour consistency with chunked chocolate.

Combine:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
• 3/4 cups packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cups white sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 drop almond flavor

Mix with beater attachment until well combined then switch to cookie paddles or a bread hook and add the flour and the ground oats with chopped chips.

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

Mix until combined and add the chocolate chips.

• 2 cups milk chocolate chocolate chips

Cookie balls:

Shape the dough into 2 inch balls evenly placed on lined baking sheet. Refrigerate 2 hours.

Bake:

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Bake cold cookie dough balls 11 to 12 minutes and let cool on cookie sheet when removed from oven to continue to bake into a soft cookie. (original recipe states cooking time at 14-16 minutes)