The Essential Crunchy Oatmeal Cookies King Arthur Flour Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the sugars, butter, shortening, salt, baking powder, spices and vanilla, beating until smooth.
• Beat in the egg.
• Stir in the oats and flour, then the raisins and nuts.
• Drop the dough by the tablespoonful onto the prepared cookie sheets. Using the flat bottom of a drinking glass dipped in sugar, flatten each ball of dough to about 1/4 inch.
• Bake the cookes for about 20 minutes, until they're golden brown; these are supposed to be crunchy, so don't underbake them.
• Remove them from the oven and transfer to a rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixer, cream the butter until fluffy. Add the sugars, and cream together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix well.
• In a bowl, stir together the oats, flour, salt, and baking soda. Mixing, slowly add the oat mixture to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Add raisins and mix just until combined.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the baking sheets, leaving at least 2-inches between cookies. Bake until browned and crispy around the edges, about 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool on wire racks and store in an airtight container.

Steps:

• Beat butter, sugar, egg, water and vanilla together til creamy.
• Sift together flour, salt and soda.
• Add to creamed mixture and blend well.
• Stir in oats, walnuts and chocolate chips.
• Put in fridge and chill overnight.
• preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet (don't use a silpat, just a greased sheet -- they didn't have silpats way back when!).
• Bake for 10-12 minutes.
• Cool and store in plastic bag in freezer.
• Eat straight from freezer-delish.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, brown sugar, molasses, egg and vanilla. Beat until light-colored and smooth.
• In a food processor or blender, process the oats, flour, raisins, salt and baking powder for about 30 seconds, or until both the oats and raisins are chopped, yet still in recognizable pieces.
• Beat the oat mixture into the butter mixture until smooth.
• Using a 1/4 cup measure or large cookie scoop, drop the dough on the cookie sheets, leaving 3 inches between cookies.
• Moisten your fingers and gently flatten each cookie to a 2 1/2 inch round or 1/2 inch thick.
• Bake the cookies for 18 minutes or until they're a medium golden brown.
• Remove them from the oven and let rest on the cookie sheet for 1 minute, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
• The cookies will be soft and delicate when they come out of the oven, but will get firmer as they cool.

Steps:

• Prehead the oven to 350. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
• In a large bowl, cream together the shortening, butter, sugar, egg, water, extracts, spices, salt and baking soda.
• Stir in the oats, then the flour.
• Add the raisins and nuts last, and stir to combine.
• Drop the dough by tablespoonful onto the cookie sheets.
• Bake the cookies for 14 minutes, or until they're a light golden brown.
• Remove them from the oven and transfer to a rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, oil and sugar.
• Add the egg, beating until fluffy, then beat in the sour cream and vanilla.
• Stir in the raisins and oats.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the bkaing soda, cinnamon, salt and flour. Add this mixture, a cup at at ime, to the oat mixture, beating well after each addition. Stir in the nuts. Let the dough rest for 15 to 30 minutes.
• Using a tablespoon cookie scoop, drop the dough onto the cookie sheets.
• Bake the cookies for 12 minutes, or until they're golden brown.
• Remove them from the oven and transfer to a rack to cool.