Community Pick
Soft Raisin Cookies
"These are delightfully soft and comforting cookies. They almost fall apart in your mouth!"
photo by a Canadian cook
- Ready In:
- 32mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
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6 dozen
ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups raisins
- 1 cup shortening or 1 cup butter
- 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
directions
- Combine raisins and water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil and cook for three minutes.
- Remove from the heat and let cool but do not drain.
- In a mixing bowl, cream shortening or butter with sugar.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Mix dry ingredients together and gradually add to creamed mixture.
- Blend thoroughly.
- Stir in nuts and raisins, along with the water the raisins were boiled inches.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto greased baking sheets.
- Bake at 350° for 12-14 minutes.
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Reviews
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OH my!!! These are SO good! I am really having trouble leaving these alone. I made the recipe as posted, no changes. This makes a lot of cookies. I love raisins, and this is the best raisin cookie recipe I've found!! Very easy. Thanks Friedel!! Definitely one I will repeat. -
Very Good, but I reduced the oven to 300 degrees to prevent raisins from burning before the cookies were baked. I have a suspicion that my oven may bake "hotter than it should". Bernice -
These are great cookies. I made them with 1 1/2 cups brown sugar and 1/4 cup of white sugar and added 1/2 tsp. allspice. They're nice and thick and soft with just a hint of spice. I cut back a bit on the nutmeg because I find it can be overpowering at times. The recipe says it makes 6 dozen cookies but I only got 34. -
Awesome cookies!! Even the "I don't like raisins in my cookies" person in the household couldn't keep his hands off them. I halved the recipe, and all the water boiled off my raisins in the time allotted, but it still worked fine. -
I make a lot of cookies, and can't believe I've made it this long without trying these cookies! They are really delicious! I halved the recipe and after mixing the batter it was really runny. I added a little more flour and it thickened up considerably. It still a little runny, but I went with it and the cookies turned out perfect! Great recipe SG! Thanks so much for posting it!
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Wow... I honestly wish I could give these more than 5 stars... they are worth many more! I must admit to one change... I used cardamom in place of the nutmeg, and I think I have found the most amazing and most delicious raisin cookie Ive ever had. I didnt have any problems with the "batter" being too runny. For me, it was the perfect consistency, and the cookies came out round, and only slightly puffy. They are fabulous. I allowed some of them to cook a bit longer to have a few that were crisp, to see what I thought of them as a crisper cookie, and they are fabulous that way, too :) I want to thank you so much for introducing this recipe to zaar, and I wanted to let you know that I will be adding these to my holiday tins this year (who knows, maybe every year if everyone likes them as much as I do! else... I'll eat em all LOL) :) -
These were delicious! I reduced the sugar to 1&1/4 cups to suit our tastes. Instead of 2 cups of raisins I used 1&1/2 cups with the other 1/2 made up of craisins which I wanted to use up. My DH and 4 year old loved these.
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