Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
This recipe comes from a friend and these are excellent, flavorful cookies that are chewy. These are a great base to adjust each time you make these, read the Variants in the Recipe Notes section.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, (1 block / 2 sticks)
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup sugar, plus 2 tablespoons
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups raisins
- 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped, optional
- 3 cups quick cooking rolled oats
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 C (350 F). Grease a cookie sheet or line the sheet with parchment paper.
- In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Mix in the eggs and vanilla extract.
- In another mixing bowl, add the flour, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg. Mix together.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix together.
- Add the raisins and walnuts and fold in.
- Add the oatmeal and mix that in.
- Scoop the dough and drop by large tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the just the edges are browned.
- Remove from the oven and let cool on the sheet for several minutes.
- After a few minutes, remove the cookies to a rack to cool completely. The cookies are very soft when you remove them from the sheet, they will set up as they cool.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
Low cost per serving.
Variants: 1. Use chopped nuts of your choice in place of the walnuts. 2. Don't like nuts? Just leave them out. 3. Use any combination of nuts, chocolate chips, dried cranberries, MM candies, and shredded coconut. 4. Use 2 cups of your favorite trail mix in place of the raisins and nuts.
This recipe for Oatmeal Raisin Cookies is from Simply Recipes.