Or as I like to call them, Bev’s HA HA HA Attempt At Baking Cookies.
Truth be told, these were actually my second attempt. Remember this? Rrrrright.
I don’t know what I’m trying to prove here either. That I can bake cookies? That I should bake cookies? That if I want to pull up the old 1987 Phantom of the Opera soundtrack on Spotify and rip-roaringly sing “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” to my husband as if I’m a famous Broadway actress on a famous Broadway stage as he sits on the couch hysterically laughing with his head in his hands, I should be able to, gosh darnit!
No no, that actually happened. Like, last night. AND I pretty much buried that song. HA-bam.
Guess what I didn’t bury though. The creaming of the butter and sugar. Ugh. I realize it looks jank to the hank. I think my butter was too cold? Still, it didn’t matter in the end, y’all cuz these oatmeal clusters go BOOM.
See, what I thought would happen was:
a) They’d spread out like little cookies. This is why I left so much space between them on the sheet.
b) But they did not.
c) That Aaron would request 15 more songs from Phantom after hearing my award-winning performance.
d) But he did not.
Insteaaaaad though (And seriously, you guys, I’m okay. No enrollment to self-esteem camp for this girl.) I ended up with seriously the most decadent, chocolately, almost cakey in a way, coconuty, oatmeal clusters with little chocolate chip explosions inside that I pretty much want to elope with.
What I’m trying to say is, I planned this outcome all along. Yeah, that’s it. Tooooootally planned it.
I love mistakes.
Chocolate Coconut Oatmeal Clusters:
What it took for roughly 20 clusters:
* 4 Tbs. butter, room temp
* 1/2 cup brown sugar
* 1 egg
* 1 tsp vanilla extract
* 1/2 cup rolled oats (not instant)
* 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
* 1/4 cup cocoa powder
* 1/4 cup coconut shavings
* 1/2 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp baking soda
* 1 tiny pinch of salt
* 3 Tbs. milk
* 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375.
In a standing mixer, cream the butter and sugar. Add the egg and mix another few seconds until it’s combined. Add the vanilla. One more blitz. There ya go.
In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients (oats through the pinch of salt). Toss toss toss until fully combined.
Add the butter mixture, the milk and the chocolate chips to the bowl. Stir until combined and thick and awesome.
Dollop about a Tbs. of the mixture onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dollops. I mean I guess that’s obvious. Sorry.
Bake for about 14 minutes!
*These are incredible warm and gooey, or even room temp if you don’t have the patience to zap them in the ‘wave.*
WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOOOOOOW HERE AGAAAAAAAAIN. You’ll listen to me sing, right?
Don’t answer that.
I kinda sorta love these with all my heart.
Oh my yumminess. You just made this Friday even brighter. I cannot wait to make these cookies. And, they might help me get over the fact that I am still mourning the fact that this year’s American Idol does not hold a candle to last year…yet!
They look good to me! Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Oh, Sommer! I’m totally not. I’m absolutely joking around. You know me.
Mmmm chocolate and coconut is such a great combination. Even better when they’re in cookie form
These remind me of chocolatey rice krispie cookie my Aunt makes every year around the holidays. So addicting!
Love the photo of the baking mishap – same thing happened to me over the holidays. Baking outcomes can be delicious or deliciously disappointing. Your accident looks lovely and I want it in my mouth.
uhhhh….you know what I mean
I like them like this, they look so rich, chocolaty, fudgy, and yummy!
I love it when you bake – especially when said projects involve chocolate! I love really texture-rich goodies & they look fab!
these look pretty darn good to me. Chocolate and coconut are my weakness.
Waaant! Love the sound of these.
I totally want these for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The end.
Haha, I’ve definitely made cookies that turned out like your first batch before. I’m glad you tried again…cause these look awesome.
In the 2 days after we saw Les Mis, I serenaded my boyfriend with I Dreamed A Dream a good half dozen times (because if you sing it right, it’s totally possible to turn a song about hating life cause you’re a prostitute into a beautiful love song….. right?)
You made cookies!! On a Friday!!! You are really growing into a fine young woman.
This is how I feel about this post.
HAhahahahahahah!!!
One word……. HEAVEN!
These clusters look just the right size to pop in my mouth whole… one after another… after another! Happy Friday Bev
I think you should bake more often. Delicious things happen and songs are sung.
Reese’s peanut butter cups were invented because a guy that had a chocolate bar got into a car wreck with a guy that had a jar of peanut butter. Well, not really, but the commercial was pretty convincing. The moral of the story? Sell your mistake to Hershey. Make a butt-load. Give me a 1% finder’s fee. Everyone’s happy.
These look delicious! I love chocolate and coconut and oats, and putting them together in a cookie sounds like just about the best thing ever right now.
Lovely little treats with my favorite ingredient ~ the Oat
I’m making these right now. It’s my policy to not stray from the recipe at all the first time, so aside from using room temperature butter (heh), it’s going to be verbatim to yours.
Next time, I’m thinking I might add either vanilla or almond extract and some slivered almonds.
Thanks for the lovely addition to my Pinterest board!
OH my gosh, I totally put a tsp of vanilla in and spaced on adding it to the recipe. THANK YOU for catching that!
Hi!
I just dropped by and tried this recipe today at home. They are really yummy but I have some tiny feedback, I have been baking for years and I know how and when to mix wet ingredients to dried ones but it might be easier for the novice baker if you include when to add the flour, cocoa, baking soda and the baking powder:) Other than that I like my cookies extra crunchy so I increased the amount of oats and that worked fine as well. Thank you so much for this recipe!
Cutest little clusters ever.
Chocolatey coconuty clusters are such wonderful mistakes to make! I want!
Everything that I love in a cookie!
You baked! You baked!
I love it…and everything about these Bev!
Um, I can serenade you the entire Phantom 1987 soundtrack. Pretty much all I listened to for about a year doing calc homework back in the day.
Also, these cookies look amazing. Changing my meal plan for the week to include these and the pub burgers!
My mother used to make something that sounds very like this when I was a child. Nice memories, but even better taste! Saw this on Pinterest and repinned
I made these tonight, but discovered that there are steps missing in the recipe… There aren’t any directions for most of the dry ingredients. Also, it would be helpful for prep to mention the butter should be room temp (I forgot, and the butter/sugar went everywhere!). Just thought you might want to know, in case you wanted to add the steps!
Thanks for the heads up! I updated the ingredients to specify the butter to be room temp. But I did say to mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. I’m sorry if that was confusing! I hope you enjoyed ‘em!
It must have just been the way it was worded that was confusing… They did turn out great though and were really yummy!
Bev, these came out great! Just made them real quick before a party. I burnt a few of them (my oven is really funny sometimes) but wanted to give you kudos on the recipe. Thanks!