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Chocolate Square Oatmeal Cookies

For the new year, I thought I'd be adding something healthy -- smoothies? Salads? But, no! I'm adding this cookie recipe. This is my favorite cookie ever and have been baking it ever since my mom cut it out from somewhere. It has just the right balance between crunchy and chewy and the chocolate and pecan tops that all off!

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by Cheryl

My mom had a file cabinet full of clippings — from news articles to recipes. This Chocolate Square Oatmeal Cookies recipe with pecans topped off with a Hershey bar and pecan half was among them. I don’t recall if she got it from an oatmeal package or an article, but I copied it by hand from her, baked it every holiday season for years, and then…lost it. I finally located it again this holiday season and ate WAY too many of them. I should add something healthy here for the New Year, but here’s this instead. I’ll do healthy next time!

These cookies have just the right balance between crunchy and chewy, and the chocolate and pecan add even more deliciousness to the recipe. I think these are my favorite cookies ever!

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Chocolate Square Oatmeal Pecan Cookies

This is my FAVORITE COOKIE RECIPE ever! My mom cut this out, once, from somewhere and wrote it down. I used to make this every year, lost the recipe for a bit, than, gratefully, found it again. The oatmeal cookie has just the right balance between chewiness and crunchiness and the chocolate square and pecan on top just add extra deliciousness.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Refrigeration 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 32 minutes
Course Bakery, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 12 cookies
Calories 269 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Baking Sheet Ungreased. I really like the Nordic Ware half sheets but any will do.
  • 1 Mixer A hand mixer will do but a stand mixer is nice. My Kitchen Aid has been with me since 2002 and is still going strong.
  • 1 Rubber Spatula For scraping the bowl
  • 1 Baking Rack For cooling the cookies.
  • 1 Something to wrap the dough in I've used plastic wrap, parchment, freezer paper…
  • 1 Spatula For getting the cookies off the baking sheet!

Ingredients
 
 

  • .75 cup all-purpose flour
  • .5 tsp baking soda
  • .5 tsp salt
  • .5 cup granulated sugar
  • .5 cup brown sugar firmly packed
  • .5 cup shortening
  • 1 egg
  • .5 tsp vanilla
  • 1.5 cup rolled oats regular, like Quaker's, NOT quick oats or steel cut oats
  • .25 cup pecans chopped
  • 1 milk Chocolate Hershey bar The regular milk chocolate ones. One bar = 12 squares. You'll need more if you make smaller cookies.
  • 12 Pecan Halves Again, you may need more or less depending on how large you make your cookies.

Instructions
 

  • Sift together the .75 cup all-purpose flour, .5 tsp salt, and .5 tsp baking soda.
    .75 cup all-purpose flour, .5 tsp salt, .5 tsp baking soda
    Sifter and dry ingredients for Chocolate Square Oatmeal Cookies.
  • Add the .5 cup granulated sugar, .5 cup brown sugar, .5 cup shortening, 1 egg, and .5 tsp vanilla.
    .5 cup granulated sugar, .5 cup brown sugar, .5 cup shortening, 1 egg, .5 tsp vanilla
  • Beat until smooth. This should be about 2 minutes.
  • Stir in the 1.5 cup rolled oats and the .25 cup pecans
    1.5 cup rolled oats, .25 cup pecans
  • Shape the dough into a 12" log. Wrap it in waxed or freezer paper or plastic wrap and stick it in the fridge to chill thoroughly; at least an hour if not more. This will make it easier to cut.
    Chocolate Square Oatmeal Cookies For the new year, I thought I'd be adding something healthy -- smoothies? Salads? But, no! I'm adding this cookie recipe. This is my favorite cookie ever and have been baking it ever since my mom cut it out from somewhere. It has just the right balance between crunchy and chewy and the chocolate and pecan tops that all off! nofoobox 2
  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees when you're ready to remove the dough from the refrigerator.
  • Remove from the refrigerator and slice it up. For the servings of this recipe, I sliced it into 12 equal slices. If you make smaller cookies you will need more hershey bars and pecan halves to top your cookies.
  • Put the slices, spaced apart, on an ungreased baking sheet. Do NOT put the Hershey bar on yet! You'll be doing that immediately AFTER you bake the cookie.
    Chocolate Square Oatmeal Pecan Cookies on baking Sheet
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes. In my oven, it's 12 minutes but ovens actually run at different temperatures and we're using baking sheets so check them after 10 minutes the first time you make them and see how brown they are.
  • When they're done baking, remove them from the oven and immediately top each one with a Hershey bar square. Let it melt just a bit, then put a pecan half on top of that.
    1 milk Chocolate Hershey bar, 12 Pecan Halves
    Chocolate Square Pecan Oatmeal Cookies on Baking Sheet
  • Remove from the cookie sheets to a baking rack and let them cool.

Notes

I’ve always used regular Hershey bars for these, but I’m tempted now to experiment and see what it would be like to use a milk chocolate/toffee bar or other types of chocolate bars. Though the Hershey bars wouldn’t be my first choice for chocolate to eat from the bar, they work perfectly for this recipe, and the squares are just the right size per cookie.
I like to make these cookies a bit big…and that’s what the serving size is based on. As I mentioned, if you want to make smaller cookies, you’ll need extra pecans and chocolate bars.
I generally end up baking these in two batches. Baking them on different levels in the oven at the same time may affect the outcome.

Nutrition

Serving: 1CookieCalories: 269kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 3gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 155mgPotassium: 98mgFiber: 2gSugar: 20gVitamin A: 25IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 28mgIron: 1mg
Keyword bakery, chocolate, Cookies, dessert, goodies, Hersey bar, oatmeal, pecans, treats, yum
Cuisine American
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