Get Your Grill On

Two of my favorite foods in the world are not barbecue. Surprised? Second to ice cream, good cookies are hard to beat. If they have chocolate in them, even better. As a child, my mother’s favorites to make were oatmeal chocolate chip. Fortunately, they are my favorite to eat. But, can they be done on the bbq pit? I figured if you can make pizza on a grill, you can do cookies.

My large Big Green Egg can be set up with a stone for making pizzas. Having promised my three year old son that we’d make some cookies, we decided to fire up the grill. A great feature of the Big Green Egg is its ability to hold temperature. After about an hour, the ceramic fire ring, shell, and dome get nice and warm. At this point, the cooking is done with radiant and convection heat. The Big Green Egg becomes a wood fired oven that is more efficient than the regular oven in my kitchen. Running between 375-400 degrees, each batch of cookies was ready for cooling in 20 minutes.

Oatmeal Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

3/4 C Flour
3/4 t baking soda
1/2 t salt
2 sticks melted butter
1 1/4 C packed brown sugar
2 large whole eggs
2 large egg yolks
1T vanilla extract
1 bag dark chocolate chips
1/2 C oatmeal
1/4 C chopped walnuts

With a tall glass of milk, nothing beats this sweet treat… except cookies AND ice cream!!!