Oatmeal Lace Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
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Does a cookie seem less sinful if there’s something as angelic as oatmeal in it? We all know that oatmeal reduces cholesterol, and has fiber, and well, maybe negates the little indulgence associated with butter and sugar and chocolate? And corn syrup? Yeah, no, I know. But work with me here… at least these aren’t as straight-up bad for you as the Classic Shortbread Cookie, or the Chocolate on Chocolate on Chocolate Bars (which have very few redeeming qualities in the nutrition department- but will knock you out otherwise. In a good way. [I SO don’t mean to disparage these tastetastic desserts at the expense of making a point about oatmeal. Forgive me, please, sinfully sweet desserts.]).
The thing about lace cookies is that they are pretty, and thin. (Like supermodels.) While they can be eaten on their own (and should be), the layering of melted chocolate between two perfect lacy oatmeal cookies is exquisite. (Exquisite might seem like a lame word, but it works in relation to a cookie with “lace” in its name. Do you not agree?)
Adapted from Esther Brody’s recipe… this recipe makes 60 thin cookies, or 30 sandwich cookies.
COOKIES:
2 cups quick-cooking rolled oats (not instant)
2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
2/3 cups (or 10 1/2 tablespoons) butter, melted
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup milk
CHOCOLATE FILLING:
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
- Preheat oven to 375° and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper (or foil sprayed with non-stick spray, or buttered).
- In a medium bowl, combine oats and flour; set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together sugar with melted butter and corn syrup. Add milk to mixture and blend well. Stir in oat/flour mixture and combine thoroughly.
- Scoop teaspoon-sized amounts of batter onto prepared baking sheets at least 3 – 4 inches apart (no more than 6 at a time per baking sheet!), and press down on dough mounds slightly using the back of a spoon or slightly wet fingers. Bake for 8 – 10 minutes, until edges have browned. Transfer parchment paper/foil to cooling rack, and peel cookies off paper/foil after they have cooled. (You won’t have to peel cookies off parchment paper- FYI.)
- TO MAKE SANDWICHES: melt chocolate in microwave in 20 second intervals, stirring to prevent scorching. Spread a thin layer over the base of one cookie, then gently press the base of another cookie into the chocolate. Allow to set on a rack or piece of parchment paper, with the side you spread the chocolate onto facing upright (as the chocolate will have blobbed out a bit through the lacy spaces).
Tips:
- Really- no more than 6 at a time, per batch. Even though I thought I spaced them out enough, they still bled into one another in some batches. Poo.
- Use a cookie scoop for easier scooping. Especially sine there are 60 freaking cookies in this recipe.
Why not make one GIANT snadwich cookie? Great idea! Check it out. (I blobbed about a tablespoon and a half onto two separate cookie sheets, and baked them a bit longer.) How much fun would it be to serve this giant cookie (or 3) at the end of a casual bbq?- Melt too much chocolate? Save the excess in a ziplog bag and reheat again in the microwave (in 10 second intervals, squishing the bag to ‘stir’ inbetween intervals) when necessary- just cut the end of one tip (a teeny tiny hole) and squeeze/pipe out onto cookies or cupcakes or ice cream or straight into your mouth or whatever.
- Left over lace cookies? Yeah, 60 is a big batch. And since I only felt like making 12 sandwich cookies, I now have a giant bag of leftover cookies in the freezer. I plan to do the following: a) serve the decent-looking ones when the time is right, and b) crush the crappy-looking ones up (the ones that bled into one another because I either spaced them too close together or was too generous with my teaspoon sized scoop) and use them in a cookie or a brownie. I’ll keep you posted on what I end up doing with them; I have high hopes, because these thin little lacy buggers are g o o d. They deserve to be spread out and shared with other dessert flavors. :)
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