Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
2 cups Rolled Oats (not quick-cooking)
1/2 Cup All-purpose flour
1/2 Cup Whole-wheat pastry flour
1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup Tahini (ground sesame seeds) [i used peanut butter]
4 tbsp Cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
2/3 cups Granulated sugar or 1/3 cup splenda
2/3 cups Packed light brown sugar
1 Large egg
1 Large egg white
1 tbsp Vanilla extract
1 cup semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chip
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (or almonds)

Directions:
1. Position racks in the upper & lower thirds of the oven; preheat 350 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Whisk oats, all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour [i didn’t have any wheat flour so i just used a cup of white flour], cinnamon, baking soda & salt in a medium bowl. Beat tahini/ peanut butter and butter in a large bowl until blended into a paste [if you used peanut butter just beat until you can’t see the butter any more]. Add granulated sugar [or splenda] and brown sugar; continue beating until well combined—the mix will still be grainy.
3. Beat in egg, the egg white, then vanilla. Stir in the oat mix with a wooden spoon until just moistened. Stir in chocolate chips and almonds [or walnuts, i don’t like walnuts].
4. With damp hands, roll 1 tbsp of batter into a ball; place it on a prepared baking sheet and flatten until squat, but don’t let the sides crack. Continue with remaining batter, spacing flatten balls 2 inches apart.
5. Bake the cookies until golden brow, 16 min. switch pans back to front and from top to bottom half way through.
6. Cool on the pans for 2 minutes, then transfer cookies to wire rack to cool completely. Let pans cool for a few minutes before baking another batch.

*Notes:
make sure you use wax paper, foil burns. i’m not sure if it was that i substituted anything that made the first batch burn. anyway they were only in for 8 minutes and … 
<  they looked like this. i prefer using almonds instead of walnuts because walnuts taste funny and you always get those little skins stuck in your throat; who wants to choke on walnut skin after eating a wonderful cookie?
On a whole the cookies turned out pretty good.