$250 Cookie Recipe

This is our family's favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.  One batch makes around 8 dozen big cookies or around 10 dozen smaller cookies.  If you don't need quite that many, you can easily half it. 

-2 cups butter
-2 cups sugar
-2 cups brown sugar
-4 eggs
-2 tsp. vanilla
-4 cups flour
-5 cups blended oatmeal (measure and mix in a blender to a fine powder)
-1 tsp. salt
-2 tsp. baking powder
-2 tsp. baking soda
-24 oz. chocolate chips (I usually do 1 bag milk chocolate and 1 bag semi-sweet)
-1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)

Cream butter and both sugars in mixer.  Add eggs and vanilla.  In a large mixing bowl combine flour, blended oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.  Gradually add the four mixture to the butter mixture until well combined.  Add chocolate chips and grated Hershey bar.  Refrigerate at least an hour.  Place balls of dough a few inches apart on a cookie sheet.  Bake at 375 for 8 minutes (smaller cookies) or 10 minutes (larger cookies).