Date Oatmeal Cookies With Milk Chocolate Chips

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup shortening
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/3-1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 cups oatmeal (either old fashioned or quick cooking)
• 1 teaspoon apple pie spice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 8 ounces chopped dates (sugared)
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips
• sugar, in the raw

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 cream the shortening, butter and sugar together. add the eggs and vanilla. mix together well.
• 3 add flour, baking soda, spices and oatmeal. mix in dates and chocolate chips.
• 4 scoop out a tbsp of dough onto a parchement paper lined cookie sheet. get 2 plates one with a bit of water on it and one with sugar in the raw. dip the bottom of a glass in the water then in the sugar in the raw. press this on top of the cookie just to flatten, repeat with each cookie.
• 5 bake for 8-10 minutes.
• 6 option: instead of using milk chocolate chips get a chocolate bar break along the individual lines and lay on a cookie as it comes out of the oven. top with another hot cookie and move to rack to cool.