Milk Chocolate Florentine Cookies
Posted by: Elaine Tue, 14 Dec 2004, at 3:53 p.m.
 

2⁄3 cup butter
2 cups quick oats, uncooked
1 cup sugar
2⁄3 cup flour
1⁄4 cup corn syrup
1⁄4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
111⁄2 oz. pkg. (2 cups) milk chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Melt butter in saucepan. Remove from heat. Stir in oats, sugar, flour, corn syrup, milk, vanilla and salt; mix well. Drop by level teaspoonfuls 3-inches apart onto foil-lined cookie sheets. Spread thin with rubber spatula.

Bake at 375 degrees for 5 to 7 minutes. Cool. Peel foil away from cookies.

Filling: Melt milk chocolate chips in a pot over hot (not boiling) water, until smooth. Spread chocolate on the flat side of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies. Yield: 31⁄2 dozen cookies.