“Two Bubbas” Death by Chocolate Cookies

5 cups oatmeal
3 cups all purpose flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 cups butter, room temperature
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups packed brown sugar
24 oz chocolate chips
8 oz bittersweet chocolate grated
3 cups chopped nuts
Topping:
120 perfect Hershey’s Kisses, more or less as needed
8 oz dark chocolate grated
8 oz white chocolate grated

Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Mix the oatmeal powder, flour, cocoa, salt, baking powder and baking soda together in a large bowl. Cream the butter and both sugars with mixer on medium. After the butter and sugars are creamy, add eggs and vanilla, and mix together. Add the dry ingredients. Add chocolate chips, bittersweet chocolate and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet or drop by teaspoonful onto the cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, or 10 to 12 minutes for a crispier cookie. Let the cookies cool slightly on the pan. Before the cookies are completely cool, press a thumbprint in the center of each cookie. Finish cooling on a rack.
For the topping:
After the cookies are cool, place a Hershey’s kiss in the thumbprint on each cookie. Melt both the dark chocolate and the white chocolate separately over double boilers. Drizzle the melted chocolates in an X pattern over the cookies and Hershey’s Kisses to hold the kisses in place.
Makes about 10 dozen cookies.