The last chocolate chip cookies I made, that I LOVED, were from my ancient Better Homes & Gardens cookie book. I was so impressed with that recipe that I had to try another recipe from that book. Here it is! Toasted oatmeal cookies! I made mine into oatmeal raisin but their recipe had called for chopped dates. I prefer raisins. I figured that these would be crunchy cookies. I guess because I toasted the oatmeal first - I was thinking like granola type crispness. I don't know why I assumed that but these were very very soft & chewy. No crispness at ALL. These cookies have so much flavor. Really deep flavor with all the right spices. I feel that the nutmeg was a bit too strong. Still wonderful but I would reduce the nutmeg by 1/2 next time & maybe up the cinnamon amount a bit. I can't say that toasting the oatmeal made that much difference in the flavor but they were definitely delicious. Actually, for being oatmeal cookies, these really don't contain that much oatmeal. And because the cookies have shortening in them instead of butter, that is another reason I thought that they might be crisp. Not sure why the recipe calls for shortening and not butter but I used the plain white Crisco. I'm sure butter would work just fine also.
So if you like your cookies soft & chewy with a good amount of spice, then these are your kind of cookie!
Enjoy!
Toasted Oatmeal Cookies
Better Homes & Gardens
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 1/2 cup flour (all-purpose )
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 cup shortening
- 1 cup raisins
Directions:
1. SPRINKLE oats in a shallow baking pan. Bake in a 375 oven about 10 minutes or till lightly toasted, stirring once. Place in bowl. Stir in sour milk or buttermilk and let stand a few minutes 2. BEAT together brown sugar and shortening till combined. Add baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; beat till combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla till combined. Stir in oat mixture. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Stir in remaining flour with a wooden spoon. Stir in raisins. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet. 3. BAKE in a 375 degree oven about 10 minutes or till edges are golden brown. Cool on wire racks.
The title caught my attention with "Toasted" and like you mentioned, I thought that by toasting the oatmeal it would lend itself to affecting the texture of the cookie.
ReplyDeleteI luv oatmeal cookies and adding oatmeal to other cookies and muffins. Thanks for sharing this recipe! =)
Wonderful cookies. The toasted oats would give such a great twist of extra flavor.
ReplyDeleteYour cookies look perfect. But I think it will be yummier if you add more chocolate chips. YUMMY!
ReplyDeleteCan I add some semi sweet chocolate chips? If I add some do I have to decrease the sugar content of the cookie? I really need to know since my kids don’t like raisins but I do like to have it so I decided to just add chocolate chips.
ReplyDeleteNo, you do not have to decrease the sugar in these cookies if you want to use chocolate chips instead of raisins. Just omit the raisins and toss in semi sweet or milk chocolate chips insteand BUT if you ARE going to use the chocolate, I would also omit the nutmeg & cinnamon. Keep the vanilla in there though. I bet the oatmeal chocolate chip combination would be really wonderful. let me know if you make them and what you think.
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