If you read the title of this recipe carefully, or looked at the pics closely, you’ll notice that these aren’t just your ordinary chocolate chip cookies. These are incredibly chewy, perfectly sweet, fat little Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies with an unusual ingredient that lends crunch and saltiness in each bite: crispy toasted tater tots.

That’s right, there are potatoes in these cookies. Potatoes are vegetables. Therefore this is a salad.
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Anyway. You can’t immediately tell that cookies have crushed up tots in them. But you’ll definitely notice a little bit of extra texture – crunchy bits and creamy bites all together – that make these special. But to me, these cookies and this recipe are extra special because they’re from Dan from The Food in My Beard.
Long time readers of this blog know that Dan is one of my very good friends, and one of my favorite bloggers of all time. He and I have shared some fun adventures over the years – we’ve cooked together, hosted parties, taught classes, created many recipes, ate our way through different events, and we were even in an international TV show together!
Dan is a mad genius with the most creative mind, and he is always dreaming up all these mouthwatering ways to serve up comfort food. His second cookbook (!!) is coming out next week, called Tots!: 50 Tot-ally Awesome Recipes from Totchos to Sweet Po-tot-o Pie.
I received an early copy (you can pre-order ...