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Lace Cookies with Chocolate Middles Recipe

Melted chocolate sandwiched between two golden and slightly crisp oatmeal cookies makes for a delicious spin on traditional oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

This recipe is:

Diabetic Friendly

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Lace Cookies with Chocolate Middles Recipe

Prep: 1 hour Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling

Yield: 24 Servings

60 10 70

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup quick-cooking oats
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips, melted

Directions

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the oats, flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Drop by teaspoonfuls 3 in. apart onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on pans before carefully removing to wire racks.
Spread melted chocolate on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Store in an airtight container. Yield: 2 dozen sandwich cookies.

Nutritional Facts 1 cookie equals 152 calories, 8 g fat (5 g saturated fat), 19 mg cholesterol, 81 mg sodium, 20 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1-1/2 fat, 1 starch.

Originally published as Lace Cookies with Chocolate Middles in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2011, p70