DoubleTree Hotel Chocolate Chip Cookies

1/2 cup rolled oats
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1-1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
2 eggs
3 cups semi-sweet, chocolate chips
1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Directions:

Grind oats in a food processor or blender until fine. Combine the ground oats with the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl.

Cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla, and lemon juice in another medium bowl with an electric mixer. Add the eggs and mix until smooth. Stir the dry mixture into the wet mixture and blend well. Add the chocolate chips and nuts to the dough and mix by hand until ingredients are well blended.

For the best results, chill the dough overnight in the refrigerator before baking the cookies.

Spoon rounded 1/4 cup portions onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Place the scoops about 2 inches apart. Bake in a 350°F oven for 16-18 minutes or until cookies are light brown and soft in the middle. Store in a sealed container when cool to keep soft.

Comments from Jenny :

My mom worked at this hotel for years and we always had them around the house. This is the actual recipe from a DoubleTree chef!

User Reviews:

These were excellent cookies. My husband and I stayed at the Doubletree in Bloomington Ill. recently and loved the cookies! I was happy to see a recipe online that came close to the DT cookies. The recipe was easy and I followed the hint about baking at 300 deg. first then raising the temp. to 325deg for the last 5 min. Also, I don't have a traditional ice cream scoop so I took about 1/4 of dough for each cookie and gently rolled them into a ball and baked them that way. They came out perfectly round and not too thin. I am not sure if chilling the dough is necessary. Since the cookies probably come from Chrisities refrigerated, that may be how DT bakes them, right out of the fridge. Anyway, I chilled mine for 8 hrs first. My family raved about them! Thanks for the recipe!!

submitted by misspenny7 on December 06, 2007

Everything for this recipe is wonderful. I may increase the walnuts
by 1/4 c and decrease the chocolate chips by 1/4 c to be slightly
closer the the double tree cookies.

submitted by gracchus on December 06, 2007

These are hands-down the BEST chocolate chip cookies I have ever tasted in my life! They are identical to the Doubletree hotel cookies, and the results are just incredible!

The only suggestion I have is to bake at a 300-degree oven for 15 minutes, then turn the oven up to 325-degrees and bake for another 5 minutes. The cookies come out just slightly flatter using this variation, but it's the only way I could prevent the bottoms from burning. Otherwise, it's an absolutely PERFECT recipe!

submitted by serenity on December 05, 2007

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