My mother in law use to say these were ‘healthy’ because of the oatmeal and raisins used in the ingredients. You try this easy and classic oatmeal cookie recipe and be the judge. In this post you will find the ingredient list including a printable recipe card.
Easy Oatmeal Cookies
Over the past few months I have been reconnecting with the ‘baker’ in me. It has been fun to digging out old recipes from my family archive and putting a modern spin to the recipes. Sometimes you just gotta stick with the original ingredients. The ingredient to these oatmeal cookies that is a must is fresh oats and butter flavored shortening. Over the years we’ve been staying clear of shortening and going with butter and lighter oils. Lately, it has been easy to find shortening at a great price and it also stores better in my pantry than butter. Below is a short list of fresh ingredients to be sure to have on hand.
- Crisco Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- Brown Sugar
- Egg
- Milk
- Vanilla Extract
- Flour
- Baking soda
- salt
- Cinnamon
- Quick Oats
- Raisins
Scroll down in this post to find my printable recipe card for the Oatmeal Cookies. If you are having issues finding the recipe please reach out to me and I will do my best to get you a copy.
Oatmeal Cookies Recipe Card
I’ve added a new index to my website that allows you to easily save and share my recipes. This is one of the first I have added to that list. I hope you take advantage of these options and please comment on my blog post to let me know if you printed and or tried the recipe. Your feedback is super important to me. Step by step directions are below:
Perfect chewy cookie every time!
The key to every tasty recipe including this Oatmeal Cookie Recipe is to use fresh ingredients. The mixer helps insure the ingredients are well blended and easily created. I am anxious to hear what you thought of this recipe.
Easy Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 15 Mins.
Bake Time: 12-14 Mins.
Servings: 24
This is an oatmeal cookie you will make often. Just like Grandmas’ Oatmeal cookies only a little more goodness!
- 3/4 C. Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- 1 1/4 C. firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 C. milk
- 1 1/2 tsps. Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 C. all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. ground Cinnamon
- 3 C. Quick Cooking Rolled Oats
- 1 C. raisins
- 1 C. coarsely chopped walnuts
- HEAT oven to 375ºF. Coat baking sheets with no-stick cooking spray.
- BEAT shortening, brown sugar, egg, milk and vanilla in large bowl at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended.
- COMBINE flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in small bowl. Beat into shortening mixture at low speed until smooth. Stir in oats, raisins and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto prepared baking sheets.
- BAKE 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove to wire rack to cool.
- CHOCOLATE OR BUTTERSCOTCH CHIP: Add 1 C. chocolate or butterscotch chips to batter.
- COCONUT: Add 1 C. sweetened flaked coconut.
- MAPLE: Add 1 1/2 tsp. maple flavoring.
- MAPLE WALNUT: Omit raisins. Add 1 1/2 tsp. maple flavoring to dough. Frost top of cooled cookies with mixture of Vanilla Frosting and 1 tsp. maple flavoring. Garnish with walnut halves.
- CHOCOLATE-DIPPED: Omit raisins and nuts. Microwave 1 C. chocolate frosting 20 to 25 seconds or until smooth and thin. Dip top half of cooled cookie in frosting. Lay on wax paper until firm.
Let’s Connect
I’ll be sharing more recipes in the days to come so be sure to reach out to me by commenting on this blog post. If you are on my email list you can pop me a message as well. Happy Baking … enjoy this time with family and be sure to not over eat the yummy oatmeal cookies. Even though they have some amazing healthy ingredients – too much is never a good thing.
Happy Baking,
Bren
