Favorite Cookie Recipe: Chocolate Bean Oaties

I wasn’t a fan of oats since childhood days.

Mom didn’t push me to have oatmeal daily but I started to developed the sudden liking on oats when I was pregnant with my first child.

I was recommended to try out oatmeal by the nurse in charge since she noticed that my cholesterol level was higher than expected.

She recommened that I should have a small bow of oatmeal with hot milk, sprinkle with chopped dried fruits or fresh fruits to blend off the tasteless oatmeal.

Reasons you should consume oats

You see, oats are nutritious and healthy fibre that helps to lower cholesterol level , best friend to your heart, fortified with calcium, vitamins and minerals that benefits young and old consumers.

Oats are high content complex of carbohydrates thatprovide you a longer and lasting ebergy than what or brown rice.

Adding oats to your recipes

Amazingly, oats are not just your regular breakfast ideas or hot beverages.

You can also add in quick cooking or instant oats into your bread, muffins, breads or cookies recipes.

In addition, I also add in 1/2 cup of oats into my Crispy Butter Prawn recipe which had attracted my kids liking instantly.

Besides that, you can add in oats into fritter batter recipes such as Banana Fritters, Vegetable Fritters or Prawn Fritters for more nutritional value.

How to prepare Chocolate Bean Oaties

Chocolate Bean Oaties as it name literally had explained, these cookies are made from the regular cookie ingredients such as plain flour, chocolate beans, butter, brown sugar, an egg and not forgeting quick cooking oats.

You can use instant oats if you do not have quick cooking oats in hand.

It doesn’t make much difference but I would recommend you to coarsely grind the coarse oats you used.

You may wonder why I had used brown sugar instead of the castor sugar in this recipe.

For your information 225g of brown sugar equals to 110g of white coarse or fine sugar.

However, I prefered to include brown sugar because it contains less sweetness and gives a beautiful brownish and crisp flavor to these Chocolate Bean Oaties.

Rest assure, too much sugar isn’t healthy for your kids either.

You might as well replace white sugar with icing sugar or honey with the same weight.

As for the oats, I can assure you that you would immediately fall in love with the crunchy and chewy bites of this cookie for sure!

It taste almost alike melt-in-the mouth cookies at first bite and gives a nice texture that crumbles easilyin your mouth!

How to make Chocolate Bean Oaties

Ingredients

-150g butter-cubes

-225g brown sugar

-1 Grade A egg

– 2 tbsp fresh milk / milk powder mix with water

Sifted ingredients

-135g plain flour

-1 tsp baking powder

-125g quick cooking oats

-175g chocolate beans / chocolate chunks

Method of baking

• Line cookie tray with baking sheet, lightly greased with butter
• In a big mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and creamy for 8 min.
• Beat in the egg and milk, a little at a time.
• Stir in sifted dry ingredients and mix with a stainless steel fork until well combined.
• Pour in quick cooking oats, fold in the chocolate beans and mix well.
• Use a teaspoon to scoop up the cookie batter, about the size of a lime, place onto the cookie tray.
• Lightly press with the back of a fork.
• Allow some space in between the cookie batter to spread out when baking.
• Otherwise the cookies would stick to each other.
• Bake in preheated oven over 180C for 20 min ( the first batch), 15 min for the 2^nd
• When the cookies are baked, transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely before storing them into a plastic container.
• Make sure the container lid is air tight in order to store the Chocolate Oat Beans longer.
• Makes around 60 cookies, depending on the size.

More cookies and cakes you might like:

 Almond Marble Cake 

Currant and Lemon Cookies

Cashew Nut Cookies

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