Baking Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies from The Cookie Jar Mix

Over a week ago, I mentioned about Rae of The Cookie Jar sending us 3 of their products to try – their French macarons, Triple Chocolate Cookies and this – their Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie mix.

We postponed baking using the mix for a pick-me-up get-together with my best friend, Tina. I know baking will cheer her up. 🙂

As soon as she saw the jar with the ingredients stacked up as pictured below, she got excited and even reminded us we should start baking already. 😀

The Cookie Jar Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie mix includes semi-sweet choco chips, oats, flour, brown and white sugar. Like what is mentioned at the back of the gift tag that’s included with the package, you only need to add butter, eggs and vanilla.

Let me share with you some photos taken during our baking session. If you haven’t tried baking yet, then, these photos might help. You see, it’s so easy, you won’t need any complicated kitchen tools like utility knives or heavy kitchen machines. 🙂

I had to stop myself from eating the chocolate chips when we finally opened the jar.

Then, we used 2 sticks of butter and softened them through our microwave. Yes, we were busy chattering away that we forgot that we were only supposed to use 1 1/2 stick of butter. So, using a little Math…

1 stick of butter = 100 g

1 1/2 stick of butter = 150 g

Since Ken, as I’ve mentioned before, is into baking. So, we have this weighing scale available at home. How convenient. You should know that precise measurements are very important when baking. Otherwise, you’d get undesirable results. That’s why, if you’re really planning on starting baking at home, then, you should have this weighing scale available too… just in case. (I forgot how much this costs, will get back to you with the price)

 

As the instructions said, we only need to add 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Here’s Ken doing exactly that:

We then added the butter and he mixed it well. Very well. 😀

We, then, added everything inside the jar…

If you don’t have a mixer or Kitchen Aid (we’re saving up for one!), you can simply use a spatula or a wooden spoon to mix all the ingredients. It ain’t that hard anyway.

We don’t have a cookie baking sheet so we used this baking pan instead and lined it with baking paper. You don’t have to grease it anymore if you have baking paper available. I also recommend you have this available when you bake cookies. It’ll make it easier to remove for cooling once they’re baked.

Ken then scooped up spoonfuls of the cookie mixture. When you do this, make sure they’re slightly apart, like about 3-4 inches. Give the cookie space to expand.

The oven was already preheated at 350ºF. The first batch, we only baked for about 11 minutes. We wanted them slightly more browned so the next batches were baked at around 14-16 minutes.

Here’s the second batch of Oatmeal Chocolate Chip cookies we made. You have to let them cool for 5-10 minutes before serving so they’re nice, a li’l crispy on the outside and chewy when you bite into them.

Here’s a closer look at the bits of melted chocolate chips and oats:

And, the back of the cookies… YUMMY! You can see that the tin can’s almost empty when I took the photo below. 😀

Of course, we recycled the tin can and placed the baked cookies in there.

The Cookie Jar cookie mix we used yielded 30 cookies exactly. Well, they weren’t even in size, but they’re advertising we can make 24-30 cookies in one jar of ingredients mix. We could’ve made more actually if we went for thicker and smaller cookies. 🙂

How good are they? Oh, we can’t stop eating them that the whole batch of cookies only lasted ‘til the afternoon of the next day. We made them at midnight. 😀

Again, here’s the price list for the mixes and the homemade cookies from The Cookie Jar:

• Cranberry Walnut
  • mix: Php 260
  • homemade: Php 195
• These mixes / cookie variants are priced at Php 220 for the mix and Php 155 for the homemade cookies:
  • Chocolate Chip
  • Crispy Chocolate
  • Oatmeal Chocolate Chip
  • Triple Chocolate

Here’s how to get in touch with Rae from The Cookie Jar to order:

• Rae Corpuz – 964-3947 / 0917-830-1965
• Free delivery within Loyola Heights, La Vista and LGV
• Pick-up points: SM Marikina, Eastwood, SM Megamall, Gateway Mall, Glorietta
• The Cookie Jar on Multiply
• The Cookie Jar on Facebook