Nestle Crunch Oatmeal Cookies from Eat Move Make

Nestle Crunch Oatmeal Cookies - made dough November 9, 2023 from Eat Move Make 

1/2 cup plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened

3/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 cups oats

1 1/2 cups Nestle Crunch bars, coarsely chopped

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar on medium speed until creamy and well combined, 1-2 minutes.
3. Add eggs and vanilla; mix to combine.
4. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt on low speed, mixing until just combined.
5. Add oats and mix on low speed until combined. Add chopped Nestle Crunch bars and mix on low speed until disbursed.
6. Portion dough into golf-ball-size dough balls and evenly space on baking sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes or until edges are set and middles no longer look raw. Let cool 1 minute on baking sheet then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.

I've been able to use up my leftover Halloween candy bars at a fairly good clip (thank you, pinterest, for all the recipe ideas). This one is essentially an oatmeal cookie with chopped up Nestle Crunch bars.

If you don't like your oatmeal cookies overly spiced, this one is a good option. It's only got cinnamon and nutmeg and those are in reasonable quantities. If that's still too much for you, omit the nutmeg. 

This has my hallmarks of a good oatmeal cookie recipe. It has more oats than flour and not too much spice. The dough was easy to work with and the cookies didn't spread much so they stayed reasonably thick.

I like to send oatmeal cookies in my military care packages for Soldiers Angels as they ship well and don't dry out too easily. Plus the oats give them a heartiness beyond the regular sugar-sweetness of a chocolate chip cookie.

The chopped up Nestle Crunch bars also worked well in this cookie. They provided both sweetness and a little crunch to the cookies. The chocolate didn't melt or puddle as much as I expected. Instead they behaved more like chocolate chips which were soft and melty while the cookies were warm but solidified again once cool.

I'll have to remember all these recipes for next year if I end up with a lot of excess Halloween candy bars again. So far all the recipes I've tried for using them up turned out pretty well. This one was no exception.