Joy of Cooking's Oatmeal Cookies
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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42 cookies
- Serves:
- 42
ingredients
- 1 3⁄4 cups flour
- 3⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1⁄2 lb butter, soft
- 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup raisins
- 3 1⁄2 cups rolled whole oats
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift (sifting is important!) flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg (its not in the recipe, but I add about 1/8-1/4 tsp of ground cloves, too) into a mixing bowl.
- Beat butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, and vanilla with a hand mixer at medium speed.
- Sift (yes, again!) flour mixture into butter mixture and mix well.
- Fold in raisins (or chocolate chips or chocolate covered raisins) and oats.
- Spoon 1.5 inch balls onto non-stick cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350°F for 6-9 minutes, rotating half way through baking. (Should be lightly firm in the center when done) Be careful -- oatmeal raisin cookies don't look done when they are, so they are very easy to over cook (unless you want then to be crispy) :).
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Reviews
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I am curious if others have particular tips on this recipe, as it is the biggest fail I have made in probably 40 years. The dough seemed quite dry. The cookies did not spread but at the same time were barely cooked through after 10 minutes. (Yes, I have a separate oven thermometer.) I needed them for an event and was really disappointed to bring this cookie, but I didn’t have time to start over. Thankfully I had another type that turned out well.
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