Delicious Oatmeal Cookies

Tonight is closing night of the musical Will is doing with his school.  There is a party afterwards at the Headmaster’s house and then another party after that.  I find when teens are going to a party, it is a good idea to try to sneak food into their belly one way or another.  Just in case.  Hence, my oatmeal cookies!  Who could resist?

Delicious Oatmeal Cookies

ingredients: butter, white sugar, light brown sugar, vanilla, egg, flour, baking soda, cinnamon, raisins, salt, old-fashioned oatmeal (important, don’t use “instant” or “quick")

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.  (If you have convection, you can use it with this recipe to make the cookies even crispier)
Mix in bowl:

-I cup of softened butter
-3/4 white sugar
-3/4 of light brown sugar
-1 teaspoon of vanilla
-1 egg

Mix in another bowl:
-1 1/2 cup of unbleached white flour
-1 1/2 cup of oatmeal
-1 teaspoon of baking soda
-1/2 teaspoon of salt
-2 teaspoons of cinnamon

Blend the flour/oatmeal etc. mixture into the butter/egg etc. mixture.  When all the flour mixture is blended in, sprinkle in to the cookie dough,

-1 1/4 cup of raisins. 

(I like a LOT of raisins, so I get one in almost every bite, but if you like only an occasional one then cut the raisins down to 1 cup or even 3/4 of a cup.  OR you could forgo the raisins altogether, leave out the cinnamon, and sprinkle in semi-sweet chocolate chips and if you really want to get crazy you could chop up a handful of pecans and fling them in there as well.  That’s the joy of being the cook.  You get to decide these things, without an if-you-please to anyone.)

Back to the recipe.

Fold the raisins in, so they are spread out evenly.  Then drop rounded teaspoons of the cookie dough onto a greased pan (greased with butter of course!) Smoosh the rounded balls slightly with the palm of your hand and bake for 10-12 minutes. 

And then, gobble them up while they are still warm, with a nice cold glass of milk.

(The musical, by the way, was lots of fun, and Will was wonderful, of course!  I should know.  I went to every single evening performance they had.)

Posted by Meg Tilly on Saturday, March 08, 2008 in Recipes

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