While making our first round of beer, I snuck a taste of the barley/malt beer mash during the sparge process. OH MY GOODNESS, it was delicious. It was at that moment I thought, “these must be used in cookies.”

So an experiment was conducted. Subsitute Beer Mash for Oatmeal in traditional Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies. The cookies pictured above were the result. It was a success, to say the least.

In case you’re feeling adventurous as well, here’s the recipe I used.

Chocolate Chip Beer Mash Cookies

Makes about 30 -36 cookies

Ingredients
•    2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
•    2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
•    1 teaspoon baking soda
•    ½ teaspoon salt
•    1 teaspoon cinnamon
•    1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temp
•    2 large eggs
•    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
•    1 ½ cups beer mash
•    6 ounces chocolate chips (or chopped Hershey bars)

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In a large bowl combine flour, brown sugar, soda, salt, cinnamon, butter, eggs and vanilla.
3. Beat at a low speed with an electric mixer until mixed thoroughly.
4. Stir in Beer Mash and chocolate chips.
5. Drop well rounded Tablespoons of dough 2-inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10-13 minutes until golden.
6. Cool 2 minutes, then carefully transfer to racks/paper towel with spatula to cool.