#Soft oatmeal raisin cookie recipe free#

Since I didn’t have any raisins, but I had dates, I buzzed the dates in my food processor and used them. Regarding whether or not the cookies will work with QUICK cooking oats, they absolutely will! This is the same recipe that Penzy’s uses in their catalog, except that their recipe is doubled, and they use QUICK cooking oats, rather than Old Fashioned Oats, just like I did last night when I baked a batch of these cookies. So, no more sending them to diabetic family. With the additional raisins (which I really enjoyed in these cookies) there really is more sugar than we think we’re getting. This recipe, at 2/3 cup of brown sugar, is 10.66 tablespoons of sugar, which is two teaspoons MORE sugar than the Quaker Oats recipe. The original Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies recipe (which is basically this recipe doubled) has 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar and 1/2 cup granulated sugar. I also particularly liked that you included the measurements in grams, since I made these cookies for the first time when I was visiting family in Germany, and that’s the standard way of measuring there. Thanks for the tips you suggested about chilling the dough and letting them cool on the sheet for five minutes these were helpful to me (and I have also learned to love using parchment paper!). Seriously, all of these reviews don’t even begin to describe how amazing these cookies are! Thank goodness I’m taking all the extras I have to share at work, otherwise I would probably eat the entire doubled batch myself! April 18, 2011 The only real difference I noticed was the last batches definitely took several more minutes to bake up.įinally getting to taste these little suckers though – oh my WORD.

I rolled enough cookies for my two baking pans then put the dough back in the fridge to wait for a free oven. I loved the idea of chilling the dough as well – the only thing I was unsure of was how long to chill the dough? For the first batch I just let the dough chill while I caught up on a little TV, so about 30 min. Reading this post/recipe gave me hope! I’ve always been more of a brown sugar fan so it makes sense to only use that, and I totally agree that an oatmeal cookie can never have enough raisins. However, it always seemed to lack something I could never put my finger on. I’ve searched for the perfect oatmeal raisin recipe for years and the Quaker one was the only thing that seemed to come close to the type of cookie I like. Let them sit on the hot baking sheet for five minutes before transferring them to a rack to cool. Bake them for 10 to 12 minutes (your baking time will vary, depending on your oven and how cold the cookies were going in), taking them out when golden at the edges but still a little undercooked-looking on top. The cookies should be two inches apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Either way, heat oven to 350☏ (175☌) before you scoop the cookies, so that it’s fully heated when you’re ready to put them in. You could also bake them right away, if you’re impatient, but I do find that they end up slighly less thick. Stir in the oats, raisins and walnuts, if using them.Īt this point you can either chill the dough for a bit in the fridge and then scoop it, or scoop the cookies onto a sheet and then chill the whole tray before baking them. In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt together. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth. (It’s got oats and dried fruit, right? Like granola!) I, uh, don’t always succeed. And sometimes, though not this one, I add chopped walnuts because they were made to go together.Īnd then I try not to eat them for breakfast. I use only brown sugar (instead of a mix of brown and white). It never has enough raisins in it, so I up them. I find it too sweet, so I dial back the sugar. I start with the standard recipe on every can of Quaker oats and then start making it better. Nope, my oatmeal raisin cookies demand their own texture, and one I can’t get from those other recipes.

Just to confuse, this is unlike other oatmeal cookie recipes on this site, the crunchier chocolate chip pecan version and the thick but shattery, salty white chocolate version. A crisp edge is always welcome, but the rest of it must be thick and chewy. I have very specific tastes in oatmeal raisin cookies.

I woke up Sunday morning craving oatmeal raisin cookies something fierce, so I tried to make myself eat oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar in it for breakfast but that didn’t work, and so there was nothing left to do but to bake cookies.

#Soft oatmeal raisin cookie recipe free#