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Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Last updated on December 11, 2022 By Anna 9 Comments This post may contain affiliate links.

According to The Houston Chronicle, Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies were so well loved that The Houstonian pastry chef asked her for the recipe.  Mrs. Bush shared it, and the cookies have since appeared at special events catered by the hotel.  You've probably made similar versions of this recipe (I know I have), but I wanted to try this one in honor of Barbara Bush, who my relatives back in Houston always described as "a delightful person".

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Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Using Quick Oats and Not Instant

Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe is also interesting because it calls for instant oats rather than Old Fashioned or Quick Cooking.  Not counting steel cut, the most common are types of oats are Old Fashioned, Quick Cooking and Instant.  Instant oats are the most processed of the three, usually come in packets, and cook up a little mushy.  They're generally not called for in recipes, and since I can't imagine Barbara Bush breaking open 6 or 7 packets of Instant, I'm thinking she used the Quick Cooking. Maybe I'll test with Instant, too.

Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies Size

Barbara Bush made her cookies 1 tablespoon size.  I had to struggle to keep them at a tablespoon because I've grown accustomed to making cookies that are larger. Glad I followed the recipe because the smaller size ones are just right and you get more edge.  Unfortunately I'm having a hard time keeping my hands off them, so they are going in the freezer.

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Recipe

Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Barbara Bush's Cookies

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Barbara Bush's recipe for chocolate cookies. The original recipe calls for instant oats, but I make them with 1 minute or Quick Cooking.
5 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 12 minutes mins
Total Time 27 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 60

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup butter salted
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar Iight brown
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 cups flour I used 250 grams
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups instant oatmeal I recommend Quick Cooking
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 package 12 ounces chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Blend butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Add 2 eggs and beat.
  • Sift (I just mixed) together flour, soda, salt, then add to batter and stir until blended.
  • Add instant oatmeal, vanilla and chocolate chips.
  • Drop by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees.
  • Let cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.
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  1. Anna

    October 15, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    Mela, I've been using 50% bread and 50% AP just for fun in different cookies lately. It sometimes makes cookies a little thicker. For these cookies I've only used unbleached AP and they've always been fine.

  2. Mela

    October 15, 2018 at 1:37 pm

    Hi Anna, how are you? Would you recommend 2 kinds of flour, all purpose and bread flour using this recipe? What will be the right proportion? Thank you.

  3. Ann Gower

    April 28, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    5 stars
    I used quick oats and mini chocolate chips. 9 minutes at 350 and let them rest a few minutes before taking them off the cookie sheet. They were really good. I got 7 dozen out of this recipe.

  4. Anna

    April 22, 2018 at 11:12 am

    Thanks Karen!

  5. karenb

    April 22, 2018 at 11:07 am

    5 stars
    These cookies are very good and need to be small to be crunchy.

    I googled this recipe and apparently it appeared in several Publications over the years. All the recipes use Quick Oats and NOT instant. The recipe that appeared in Family Circle magazine, specifically states NOT Instant Oats.

    https://www.familycircle.com/recipe/cookies/barbara-bushs-revised-cookie-recipe/

  6. Sonya

    April 22, 2018 at 9:28 am

    Yum!

  7. Sue

    April 21, 2018 at 3:50 pm

    Sometimes a good oatmeal chocolate chip cookie is just the right cookie.

  8. Anna

    April 21, 2018 at 3:18 pm

    Sue, the Big Flat Chocolate Chunk are my current favorite. I think I like them better than the NYT cookies. These are good too, just in a different class with the oats.

  9. Sue

    April 21, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    They sound like good cookies. Yesterday I made your Big Flat Chocolate Chunk Cookies. So good!

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