We have been long-time fans of AMERICAN HERITAGE Chocolate. We love their mission of education (especially where food AND chocolate AND American history all intersect!) Crafted like it was back in Colonial America, there’s no other chocolate like it, full of flavors and spices like vanilla, orange, and cinnamon that you can’t find in any other chocolate today. It’s convenient to cook with and can be used 1-to-1 in any recipe that calls for semi sweet chocolate!
To make these cookies, you’ll cream together your sugars and butter, then add in your eggs, vanilla, corn syrup, baking soda, and peanut butter until it’s nice and smooth. Then you’ll add the oats to the mixture (if you were wondering how I feel about cookies with chocolate AND peanut butter AND oats…well…I’m a fan. It’s pretty serious.) Once the oats are mixed in, you’ll add the AMERICAN HERITAGE® Finely Grated Baking Chocolate and mix until it is evenly distributed throughout the mixture.
The other key component to these cookies being amazing is M&M’S®. Not joking, if there’s a cookie with them in it on a table full of cookies, that will always be the cookie I choose.
Gently mix them in, reserving about 1/4 cup of the candies. Bake until the cookies are golden around the edges, remove from the oven, and then gently press the remaining candies onto the cookies.
And there you have it. A flour-free (gluten-free if you make sure the oats are gluten-free!) cookie loaded with a few of my favorite things! Perfect to tuck into a lunchbox, offer up as an after-school snack at the end of the day, or nibble on during Netflix o’clock.
