Oatmeal Cookies

By Mimi Sheraton

Updated Dec. 6, 2022

Total Time
35 minutes
Rating
3(457)
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Ingredients

Yield:5 dozen
  • 1½cups (¾ pound) unsalted butter
  • 1cup granulated sugar
  • 1teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2teaspoons sifted baking soda
  • 2¾cups Quaker's old-fashioned oatmeal
  • 2⅔cups all-purpose flour
  • 1½cups raisins
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Nutritional analysis per serving (60 servings)

99 calories; 5 grams fat; 3 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 1 gram monounsaturated fat; 0 grams polyunsaturated fat; 13 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram dietary fiber; 6 grams sugars; 1 gram protein; 44 milligrams sodium

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

  2. Step 2

    Butter a cookie sheet and line with baker's parchment.

  3. Step 3

    Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in vanilla, Add sifted baking soda amd stir in. Add oatmeal, flour and raisins and stir in thoroughly. Mix well.

  4. Step 4

    Using your hands, form dough into balls, each just a little larger than a walnut. Place them about one inch apart on parchmentlined cookie sheet.

  5. Step 5

    Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until pale golden brown.

  6. Step 6

    Remove from paper and cool on rack. Although delicious when warm, these are really meant to be eaten cold.

  7. Step 7

    When cookies have cooled completely, pack in airtight containers.

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Comments

JDM

This is a big 'no'. Pale, not golden. Too much flour. Too chalky and while they held their form they all apart when you take a bite. I am looking for sweet, chewy, golden, sticky...oatmeal cookie. Not this.

elouise

OMG! I will never neglect to read the comments again before using a recipe in here! Holy cow! Worst cookies ever! Could there be a miaaing ingredient in the directions - like eggs or milk? There is only 1 liquid to this recipe, the vanilla extract. What is supposed to hold things together?

kniterati

So, I wanted a sort of shortbread sandie and I thought I could make this into what I hoped for. But Mimi Sheraton is a cookie goddess and it isn't good to mess with the work of a goddess. I used part WW flour, added a bit of wheat germ and some walnuts. The first sheet of cookies fell apart. All was well like most things in life with the addition of more butter.

MTWELL

Awful. This recipe is a joke. It’s just wrong.

Nana O

I agree this recipe seems to be missing some kind of liquid ingredient. After the first batch looked and tasted like moon rocks, I used a spatula to flatten the dough before baking and they were a little better but still way too dry.

James

realized the liquid problem corrected with 1/2 cup milk and one egg, also added cinnamon and cup of walnuts, super cookie

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