The hunt for Famous Amos Chocolate Chips Cookies Recipe

I have been hunting for this secret recipe for decades. If you read my earlier blog (Click HERE) you can see how obsessed I was with this hunt.

Recently my friend who sells cookies gave me a jar of cookies as a Christmas gift. The texture has a hint of the famous Amos but not the smell. The smell as I have wrote in my blog has eluded every recipe I have tried. The same goes with this one.

She told me the recipe was taken from a facebook posting. Truly it was and posted by a Malaysian. Below is the ORIGINAL recipe:

Ingredients

250g of butter

1 ¼ cup of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1 egg

2 ½ cups of wheat flour

½ cup of corn flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate

6 tablespoons of cooking oil

2 cups of chocolate chips

Almond nibs or flake if preferred

The above recipe is made without using a beater and all hand held. It also incorporates 90ml of oil which is unusual but not surprise. As you all know Amos cookies is always a little oily. 

I had to try this recipe with two things that I tweaked. I added 1 teaspoon coconut powder and reduce the baking soda to half. 

The batter was very wet and too sticky to touch. You need to do spoon drop the dough. The cookie after bake turned out too crumbly. Amos is not tender and has a bite to it.

The middle of the baked cookie was pale in color and a true Amos is not. In the picture below the right dough was made with the above recipe. The right dough which is darker was made with more sugar content. See below for the sweeter recipe.

With 3/4 dough still not baked I added another 1/2 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of grounded instant Quakers oats to make it less crumbly.

My conclusion this cookie is deliciously good but not even close to an Amos.

Not the type to quit when an Amos hunt is on, the next day I baked another batch with a slightly different twist. MORE sugar. 

One review remark that Amos is always super sweet, caramel looking outside and inside, a little oily, not crumbly crisp but tender crispy and has a super fragrant smell. 

The next day I made another batch this time with more sugar. 1.5 cup brown sugar and 0.5 cup caster sugar. 

Believe or not, despite its intense sweetness this is almost the real thing!

The following is the recipe I tweaked incorporating with my previous recipe.

Ingredients

150g butter

170g brown sugar

50g caster sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

1 egg

1 teaspoon salt

150g wheat flour

30g corn flour

10g malt milk powder

30g grounded instant oats 

30g grounded almonds

1 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate

2 cups of chocolate chips

1 cup of Nuts if needed

The basic of Amos cookies are 150 fats : 250 sugar : 250 flour