The Very Best Oatmeal Cookies Food

THE VERY BEST OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Cream together shortening and sugars.
• Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.
• Sift together flour, salt and soda.
• Add to creamed mixture.
• Stir in oats slowly.
• Mix well. Add nuts, chips or raisins, if desired. Dough will be fairly stiff.
• Drop by heaping tablespoon on lightly greased cookie sheet. (I use a 4 teaspoon cookie scoop and press them down slightly before baking).
• Bake for 8-10 minutes.

THE BEST OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the eggs, raisins, and vanilla. Cover and chill for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, salt, cinnamon and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture and stir until all of the dry ingredients are absorbed. Next, stir in the egg and raisin mixture, then stir in the rolled oats and pecans. Dough will be stiff. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an unprepared cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges are golden. Allow cookies to cool 5 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

THE VERY BEST OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES EVER!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Whisk eggs in a small bowl, add 1/4 cup water, 1 tsp vanilla and raisins; mix well. VERY IMPORTANT let set on counter for at least 1 hour.
• In another bowl, combine crisco, and sugars, mix well.
• Gradually add dry ingredients.
• Blend in raisin mixture -- mix well.
• I use a cookie scoop, slightly less than 1/4 cup and place them on a greased cookie sheet. I slightly flatten them with the back of the scoop.
• Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes. Do not flatten cookies a lot -- just a gentle tap.other wise they will flatten out too much.
• Baking note: please remember to reverse position of cookie sheets halfway through baking. DO NOT OVER BAKE. Cookies should be slightly golden brown around edges. Centers will look set-- let cool 1 minute on cookie sheet and then remove to wire rack to complete cool.
• I have used this recipe for over 30 years-- always outstanding-- most important thing to remove cookies from oven before they are finished-- residual heat in cookies will complete cooking-- and result in a cookie that is not dried out.
• I also add more walnuts, as I like lots of big nuts in my oatmeal cookies-- I have often left the egg, raisin mixture on counter, for a couple of hours while cleaning house and came back and baked marvelous cookies.

THE BEST OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Arrange an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda and cinnamon in a small bowl until combined. Beat the brown sugar and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the honey, vanilla, egg and 1 tablespoon warm water and beat on high speed until creamy, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl, about 3 minutes more. Add the dry ingredients and mix on low speed, scraping the bowl as needed, until completely combined. Add the oats and beat on low speed until combined. Fold in the raisins until evenly distributed. Arrange twelve 1-ounce scoops (2-tablespoon portions) of cookie dough on the prepared baking sheet, leaving about 2 inches between each. Bake until the cookies are lightly golden around the edges, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on the sheet for 10 minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Let the baking sheet cool, and then repeat with the remaining cookie dough.

THE BEST PEANUT BUTTER-OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• In large bowl mix the butter, shortning, sugars and peanut butter.
• Add eggs one at a time.
• Blend flour, soda and salt then add to sugar mixture.
• Then add oats.
• Form into 1 1/2 inch balls (no need to press with fork like usual) These come out perfectly round Bake 350 degrees for 12 minutes.

BEST OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• This is a very important first step that makes the cookie: combine eggs, raisins and vanilla and let stand for one hour.
• Cream together butter and sugars.
• Add flour, salt, cinnamon and soda and mix well.
• Blend in egg-raisin mixture, oatmeal, and chopped nuts.
• Dough will be stiff.
• Drop by heaping teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet, or roll into balls and flatten slightly.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

ABSOLUTE BEST MOST EXCELLENT SOFT OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• First, you put the raisins in a small pan of water uncovered and cook till puffy.
• Put in strainer to drain and cool.
• (I rinse them under cool water to cool them off quicker) Cream and beat together (using elect. mixer) the butter, brown sugar, and eggs.
• Mix together the flour (unsifted), soda, baking powder, cinnamon, oatmeal and add to the creamed mixture, using beater to mix.
• Last, add the raisins.
• With a spoon, mix them in ever so lightly.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls on lightly greased cookie sheets.
• (I use cooking spray) I sometimes use Tablespoonfuls to make bigger cookies!
• Bake them between 350*-360* for 8-9 minutes.
• Take them out before they get brown!
• Cool for a couple of minutes on the cookie sheet before transfering to waxed paper to cool completely.
• Enjoy!