Desserts
Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies
Description
Looking for a treat made using oats? Then check out these delicious oatmeal cookies, baked with a hint of cinnamon and packed with raisins—ready to eat in an hour.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 cup butter or margarine (2 sticks), room temperature
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 3 cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats*
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup raisins, if desired
Directions:
- Heat the oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, stir the brown sugar, butter, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla, salt and eggs with a wooden spoon until well mixed. Stir in the oats, flour and raisins until mixed.
- For each cookie, scoop a rounded tablespoonful of dough, using a tableware spoon, and push it onto an ungreased cookie sheet with another spoon or rubber spatula, placing cookies 2 inches apart.
- Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until light brown. Remove cookies from cookie sheets to a cooling rack, using a turner. Cool cookie sheets 10 minutes between batches.
