From the 1960s-1980s recipe box of a midwestern grandma.

Ingredients:

1 16-ounce package chocolate chips

3 cups Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup margarine or butter, softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 375.

Melt chocolate chips in microwave.

Crush Frosted Flakes.

Sift flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In mixing bowl: beat butter or margarine* and sugar until very light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add flour mixture and mix thoroughly. Fold in crushed flakes. Swirl warm chocolate chip melt lightly through batter, leaving streaks of chocolate.

Drop mixture by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in 375 degree oven about 12 minutes or until done.

Note: * Grandma wrote in this line “oleo.” Oleo was the old-fashioned word that was short for “oleo-margarine” and grandma, and so many others of her generation, used it for butter or margarine, interchangeably. As a kid, I thought for some reason she was mispronouncing “Crisco.” But, no, I was a stupid kid. Also, as a stupid kid, I wondered if she was confused and meant “Oreo.” Even though context clues should have told me no, she did not mean Oreo. I mean, every idiot knows you can’t substitute a chocolate sandwich cookie for butter. Or margarine (crisco or oleo).

You Just Fold It In!

See also:

”How Tony the Tiger Has Changed Over the Years.” Mashed

”Tiger Cookies.” Yesterdish

”Frosted Flakes.” Wikipedia