Cookie Recipes
Awesome Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 14 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg (room temperature)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups rolled oats
- 3/4 cup raisins
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly butter two cookie sheets.
- In a large bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer set on medium high speed, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and mix until combined.
- Stir in the vanilla extract.
- With the mixer on low speed or using a wooden spoon, gradually add the flour until combined.
- Stir in the oats.
- Divide the batter in half.
- Stir the raisins into one half of the batter and the chocolate chips into the other.
- Drop the dough by rounded tablespoonsful onto the cookie sheets. Leave about 3 inches between each one for spreading. Flatten each cookie slightly with the back of the spoon.
- Bake 1 or 2 cookie sheets at a time for 10 to 13 minutes. Check for doneness after 10 minutes. The cookies are done when they are lightly browned around the edges.
- Remove the cookie sheets to a wire rack and let the cookies cool for about 2 minutes.
- Using a metal spatula, remove the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
These cookies can be wrapped in plastic wrap and foil and frozen for up to one month. Thaw at room temperature.