Chocolate Chip Cookies (Doubletree Style)

Pulse oats in a blender or food processor. In a bowl, combine oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Whisk together and set aside.

In bowl of an electric mixer, add butter and sugars. Cream until light in color, scraping bowl as needed. Add eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice.

Add flour mixture to egg mixture and stir by hand until almost combined. Add walnuts and chocolate chips and stir to finish mixing dough. Don’t overmix!

Let dough chill for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350ºF and scoop dough onto prepared baking sheets 2 inches apart. Bake for 13–15 minutes until done to your liking. Let cool on baking sheet for 3 minutes, then remove to wire racks to finish cooling.

Eat 5 at once. Enjoy!

Notes:
1. I left the lemon juice out of this recipe and it was just fine.
2. The original recipe calls for 1 cup walnuts, but I use 1/2 cup instead and like that ratio a little better!
3. For a little extra health, swap 1 cup of flour for whole wheat flour—it works great!

Recipe adapted from The Little Kitchen.