Chewy Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Submitted by CandyTX

"These are the absolute best I've found. Chewy, and the spices are just right. Great for Christmas to make your house smell all festive!"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 16

ingredients

• 118.29 ml butter, softened
• 118.29 ml butter flavor shortening
• 236.59 ml packed light brown sugar
• 118.29 ml white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4.92 ml vanilla extract
• 354.88 ml all-purpose flour
• 4.92 ml baking soda
• 4.92 ml ground cinnamon
• 2.46 ml ground cloves
• 2.46 ml salt
• 709.77 ml rolled oats
• 236.59 ml raisins

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350~.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, butter flavored shortening, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.
3. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt; stir into the sugar mixture.
4. Stir in the oats and raisins.
5. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
6. Bake 10 - 12 minutes until light and golden. Do not overbake, you want them to be a little chewy.

Reviews

[alisoncooper_9540378]

This is my great grandma's recipe!! I love this! In the Canadian Rockies, she added 1/4 water. She also put in 1 cup chopped nuts. Just as posted is the way I make it for my family in Florida. Thanks!!

 

[Bean5286]

This is the perfect cookie! Tastes great chewy or hard! I ran out of brown sugar...so I added 3/4 C brown sugar and 1 1/4 C white sugar. Still tasted fabulous! Thanks for the recipe.

 

[amy.roach]

AWESOME!!! The perfect oatmeal raisin cookie!!! Very soft chewy and best of all not flat!!! Out of shortening so I had to use 1 cup of margarine sticks and they turned out great!!!

 

[Mudsock Momma]

This recipe is great! The spices are just right. I used 1 cup of butter-flavor shortening because I didn't have any butter. The results were soft, chewy cookies. I also used dried cranberries instead of raisins because I don't like raisins!