Award Winning Oatmeal Cookie Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the pecans on a sheet pan and bake for 5 minutes, until crisp. Set aside to cool. Chop very coarsely.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low, add the eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt together into a medium bowl. With the mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture. Add the oats, raisins, and pecans and mix just until combined.
• Using a small ice-cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop 2-inch mounds of dough onto sheet pans lined with parchment paper. Flatten slightly with a damp hand. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until lightly browned. Transfer the cookies to a baking rack and cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Mix in the quick oats, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Whisk dry ingredients; set aside.
• Combine wet ingredients with a hand mixer on low.
• To cream, increase speed to high and beat until fluffy and the color lightens.
• Stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture until no flour is visible.
• (Over mixing develops the gluten, making a tough cookie.) Now add the oats and raisins; stir to incorporate.
• Fill a #40 cookie scoop and press against side of bowl, pulling up to level dough (to measure 2 tablespoons of dough).
• Drop 2-inches apart onto baking sheet sprayed with nonstick spray.
• Bake 11-13 minutes (on center rack), until golden, but still moist beneath cracks on top.
• Remove from oven; let cookies sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line cookie sheet with parchment paper.
• Mix all the chunky stuff up in a medium bowl. (That's the oats, chocolate, cherries, and pecans.).
• Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in another medium bowl.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar, till there aren't too many lumps. Then add the eggs and the vanilla and blend. Add the flour mixture bit by bit, blending as you go.
• Then, fold in the chunky stuff. Don't worry, it'll look like there's more chunky stuff that cookie dough, but it will work.
• Drop dough onto parchment lined cookie sheets, I like to portion out a bit less than 1/4 cup per cookie.
• Bake for 10 minutes, but if you like them chewy, take them out when the edges look done, but the middles don't. They'll firm up as they cool.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, beat margarine and sugars until light and fluffy. Add egg whites.
• In a medium size bowl, combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg; add to sugar mixture.
• Stir in oats, raisins and vanilla. Chill 1 hour.
• Preheat oven 350°F.
• Roll a teaspoon of dough into a ball and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Grease the bottom of a glass with margarine, dip glass in sugar and use to flatten ball of dough. continue, leaving adequate space between cookies.
• Bake 10 minutes.
• Cool on racks.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
• In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, white sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy .Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, stir into the creamed mixture. Fold in the oatmeal, raisins and walnuts. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheet.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.