The Best Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
Follow these easy steps and you’ll have a chewy, moist, wholesome snack that is full of character. By adding your choice of nuts, dried fruit or chocolate chips, this soft cookie will eclipse all others.
Makes about 2 dozen
Ingredients
- 1 cup of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (optional but really adds depth)
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 cup or 1 stick of unsalted butter
- 2 cup of brown sugar
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/2 cups of old fashioned rolled oats
- 1/2 cup of raisins (try soaking them in a little rum) or craisins
- Optional additions of chocolate chips, walnuts, coarse sea salt sprinkled on top before baking or other.
Directions
- Mix the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg, baking soda, and salt into a bowl and set aside.
- Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugars together.
- Add the egg and vanilla.
- Using a spatula or a fork, fold in the dry ingredients until you obtain a thick dough. Do not over mix.
- I like to add craisins, semi-sweet and white chocolate chips, chopped toasted walnuts, but you can use other ingredients that you may have on hand.
- Chill the dough in fridge for 30 minutes and place by spoonful on ungreased baking tray (cookies will not stick to tray if removed immediately with spatula once baked).
- Bake for approximately 12 minutes in a preheated 350 F oven (190 Celsius). The soft and chewy texture is obtained if you under bake them a little.