Thin and Crisp Powdered Oatmeal Cookies

Submitted by sugarpea

"If you're into soft, chewy, raisin-filled oatmeal cookies, these are not for you. These cookies are melt-in your-mouth good, wafer thin and addictive."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 8 dozen cookies
• Serves: 96

ingredients

• 2 cups butter (or 1 cup each butter and margarine)
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups oatmeal (not instant)
• confectioners' sugar, for dusting

directions

1. Cream butter or margarine and sugar.
2. Add egg and vanilla; beat well.
3. Add combined flour, soda and salt; mix thoroughly.
4. Stir in oatmeal.
5. Drop by teaspoon on cookie sheet.
6. Dip fork in water, press cookie down; or use the bottom of a glass.
7. Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
8. While still warm, sprinkle top of cookie with confectioners' sugar.

Reviews

[Lucky in Bayview]

Delicious! Delicate and light. I just wish I wasn't giving them away. I used Missfish's idea and rolled them in a log and stored in the fridge until I was ready to bake. I sliced the cookies fairly thin, so I didn't need to press them down. They came out great. I sprinkled with crystal sugar rather than powderd sugar only because I didn't want the powdered sugar to make a mess in the gift bag. Thanks for posting, I'll be making these again.

 

[boater 1938]

This, in my opinion, is what an oatmeal cookie should be. Sprinkled a few grains of coarse sugar when hot out of the oven instead of confectioners sugar for a visual sparkle, but would have been just as good without. thank you ,sugarpea, for a great cookie.

 

[missifish]

These were the hit of my holiday cookie baskets. Delicious. I doubled the recipe, and had more dough than I needed, so I froze it in logs and took it to my mother-in-law's house. When our guests arrived, I thawed it briefly, then sliced and cooked. voila - FRESH cookies that were being eaten as soon as I could sprinkle the sugar on. A new fave at our house. Thank you!

 

[irundou01]

If you like thin and crispy there is nothing better. I tend to mix up recipes a bit to ad things I enjoy. This recipe was no different. I did everything by the recipe until I got to the oatmeal. I only used approx. 3 cups. I then added the following: toasted pecans chopped up into fine bits, 1/4 cup or more (to taste) of coconut, and a 1/2 bar Hershey's milk chocolate cut up into tiny pieces. I wouldn't use the chocolate chips because they would be to big. You want the tast without having all those great flavors be really noticable. In closing I sprinked as directed and this is, bar none, one of the best cookies I've ever had. I could go into business with just this recipe. PS: these are so very thin and light they are not filled with calories. You can eat two with a cup of coffee and not feel guilty. Enjoy. Maggie G. Los Gatos, CA

 

[Marlene.]

This recipe did NOT disappoint! These are exactly as described. Melt in your mouth good, wafer thin , and the most important part , addictive!! :) I did exactly as the recipe stated , only using my 1/2 Tbsp. measuring spoon to dole out the dough. Oatmeal cookies are ok in my book , but have never been a favorite. Since baking these , I have eaten about 8 or 9 of them!! AACCKK!!! As you can see, this will make a lot of dough. I was baking a couple of different cookies tonight , so after I baked 3 pans of these, I took the rest of the dough and rolled it up like a tube of store bought dough. I'm going to try freezing it , then at a later date , slicing off dough to bake. I'll be sure to review when I do this!! Thanks for an excellent cookie recipe sugarpea! **edited on 12-11-06 I pulled out the frozen dough , after it thawed a LITTLE bit , sliced off slices .. it worked out GREAT. I have homemade oatmeal cookies , NO mixing LOL ... these freeze GREAT!!