Flaxseed and chocolate chip cookies

What I love about this recipe is that the cookies come out not so hard as most oatmeal cookies. Also, the combination of healthy fiber(oatmeal and flaxseed) and treat(chocolate chips) is great.

Ingredients:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1.5 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups oatmeal

1/2 cup flaxseed

1 cup chocolate chips

Tools:

baking sheet

two medium bowls

wooden spoon (optional)

aluminum  paper

Ready? Then lets begin to make some cookies that will blow your mind.

Set oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit

Mix sugars and butter together. You want the butter to be soft. I usually take it out of the fridge about 1 hour before I start making my cookies. Add the eggs and vanilla, mix well. In a separated bowl mix the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and combine. finally, add the oatmeal, flaxseed and chocolate chips and mix with the hand or a wooden spoon.  I really recommend to refrigerate your cookie dough at least 24 hours before baking. This last step helps to set the flavors and textures. Take your refrigerated dough and get  the baking sheet ready by covering it with aluminum paper. I like to this since it is easier to clean up, but if you do not have aluminum paper handy, it is fine. Place spoonfuls of the cookie mixture over the baking sheet two inches apart from each other and from the edges of the baking sheet.

Place the spoonfuls of cookie dough in the hot oven and bake for 11 to 13 min. depending on you oven. I recommend to check on the cookies around the 12th minute, if the cookies seem to need another 3 or 4 min. more, TAKE THEM OUT NOW!!!! Over-baking the cookies harden them.  Take my advice, I have made like 100 batches of cookies, therefore I have some kind of authority.