Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies

Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies

  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 27 mins
  • Yield: 5dozen cookies

    • About This Recipe

    “Tasty oatmeal cookie that has been made in our family since I was little. A little bit different oatmeal cookie in that it has cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and ginger.”

    Ingredients

  • 3/4 cupbutter, softened
  • 1cupbrown sugar, firmly packed
  • 1/2 cupgranulated sugar
  • 1largeegg
  • 1/4 cupwater
  • 1teaspoonvanilla extract
  • 1cupflour
  • 1teaspoonsalt
  • 1/2 teaspoonbaking soda
  • 2teaspoonscinnamon
  • 2teaspoonsnutmeg
  • 1teaspoonclove
  • 1teaspoonginger
  • 3cupsquick oats
  • 2cupsraisins

    • Directions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a small bowl, sift flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger; set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, egg, water and vanilla extract.
  • Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture; mix well.
  • Stir in quick oats and raisins.
  • Drop by well rounded teaspoonfuls onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
  • Bake for 10 – 12 minutes.
  • Cool on tray for 1 minute and move to wire rack to complete cooling.

    • Reviews

  • “Yummie!Youre right, this is the “ultimate” oatmeal cookie.Its chewy and incredible, plus my whole house smelled good.This would be the perfect autumn cookie b/c it tastes like pumkin bread meets oatmeal raisin cookie.Thanks!!”

  • “very nice oatmeal cookie!!nice and soft, even for the baby..!”

  • “So easy to make and they taste so good! I like the crispy outside and the chewy inside, a real 5* recipe in my books!”

  • “I don’t like cookies that much, but this one is truly a winner. I replaced the raisins with 1 cup of chopped nuts, personal choice, and it was perfect. Thank you for sharing your recipe.”

  • “These cookies are addicting, especially right out of the oven!!!!”

  • “Made with my After School group.An easy recipe for them to follow and put together.These turned out sooooo delicious.The spice was perfect, the texture was just right! The children can’t wait to make these again!”

  • “Great flavor I used fresh grated nutmeg and fresh milled cloves and everyone loved them.”

  • “I made these for my boyfriend last week when he asked me to bake him up some treats. I followed the recipe and wow am I impressed. I usually find oatmeal cookies so bland, but these spices really wake it up. Its now my own personal favoriate and a keeper in my house!! Thank you Caryn!!”

  • “Fabulous! I loved all the different types of spices, it made for a great oatmeal cookie with a new taste. I tried using walnuts instead of raisins and they were terrific. If you like lots of walnuts I would recommend using 2 1/2 cups of walnut halves. If you just want a little bit of walnuts taste then use 2 cups chopped walnuts. You could also do raisins and walnuts if you like.”

  • “This was the first time I tried making cookies from scratch, and the directions were very easy to do! It was a hit, although they were much less flat than I expected them to be. The only hard part was creaming the butter well and mixing in the dry ingredients afterward (perhaps I should add more water next time?). Nevertheless, it was a good success. Thanks a bunch!!”

  • “delicious, to make it healthier, i only used 3/4 cup of sugar, and 1 cup of raisin, “

  • “This is a perfect example of the kind of oatmeal cookie that I love. The spices in this cookie are fantastic, and the smell while they are baking is so very addictive. I used half Thompson raisins and half dried cranberries and I can barely keep my hands out of the cookie jar. The only thing that I found was that they needed about 13 to 15 minutes in the oven. However, this could just have been my oven. Thank you for sharing!”

  • “Made a batch last night they are gone by late afternoon the next day. Excellent! The coconut flakes make these cookies the best oatmeal cookie I have ever had.”

  • “Best oatmeal cookies ever!! Sometimes, I use extra clove & fresh grated nutmeg and ginger and add dark chocolate chips for a beautuful spicy and bittersweet contrast. I make these cookies every week and we are not sick of them yet!!”

  • “Best I ever tasted.Very spicy.I put in walnuts, instead of raisins.My husband and I couldn’t stay out of them!”

  • “I love this recipe! I substituted whole wheat flour; and used turbinado sugar instead of the white sugar.As a result I had to cook them a few minutes more.Next time I will put in half as many raisins and add walnuts. Thank you!This recipe is a winner.”

  • “This is by far the best oatmeal cookie I’ve ever tasted.I made these cookies for my husband and his co-workers and everyone loved them!The recipe is easy to follow; I had no trouble with it.I don’t like raisins, so I made a few batches without the raisins and also made a few batches of scotchies.Both were fabulous!”

  • “I made these with cinnamon chips added. My husband took some to work and they got rave reviews! If you put the extra chips in reduce the raisins to 1 cup and only put in 1 cup of chips. There isn’t enough batter to hold them together if you put the full amount in.”

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