Crumbling Cookies Caper
Posted by Gina on Mar 16, 2009
Why are my peanut butter, chocolate chip oatmeal cookies crumbling into pieces? Got the recipe online:
1c sugar, 1c brown sugar, 1c butter (I used 50/50 smart balance for baking), 2 eggs,1c peanut butter, 1tsp vanilla, 2c flour, 2tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, 1c oats (I used steel cut kind that might have been in smaller bits than they meant), and chocolate chips.
The culprit in your crumbling cookies caper is the steel cut oats. They require much more cooking time and water than regular rolled oats. What happened is that they absorbed all the moisture from the surrounding dough, but it still wasn’t enough, so the dough became crumbly and the oats remained crunchy. This recipe sounds tasty and looks like it should work just fine as long as you use rolled oats. Instant oats are fine as well. Mmmm… cookies!