Princess, as you seem to be quite the cookie connoisseur, I would love your feedback too.
As you can see from the pictures I used minimal equipment: cereal bowl, small mixing bowl, zester, fork, rubber spatula, sheet pan and Silpat. This is pretty much all I own right now anyway. (Personal issues in my life are keeping my new kitchen to the bare-bones basics; another reason for the recipe.)
2 Cups Flour
1 Cup Rolled Oats
1 tsp. Coarse Sea Salt
1 tsp. Baking Powder
2 Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
4 oz. Hazelnut Oil
1 Cup Sugar
Zest of 1 Orange
Dark Chocolate (as much as you like)
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
With your fingers toss the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl until well mixed and set aside.
In another bowl beat eggs together with a fork. Mix in the vanilla and then add the hazelnut oil in a slow, steady stream. It should emulsify very easily. Add the sugar and the zest and mix until creamy.
Toss the wet mix into the dry mix. Using a spatula or your hands toss the two mixes together until a sticky batter forms. Toss in the chocolate and continue to toss your cookie dough.
Toss your cookies onto a sheet pan lined with Silpat or parchment paper. Bake for 20 minutes rotating at 10 minutes. Let cookies cool for five minutes on the pan. Toss your cookies onto a cooling rack. You can eat your tossed cookies any time at this point.
Notes: I want more hazelnut flavor so next time I am going to add chopped nuts.
The texture is a little dense (for obvious reasons) and I will continue to work on that.
If anyone would like to try them and make suggestions then please do. Just remember that the idea is to get something that you can just "toss" together.
rwj
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