Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies

  • Prep 60 min
  • Total 60 min
  • Servings 36

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter or margarine (2 sticks), room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 3 cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats*
  • 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup raisins, if desired

Steps

  • 1
    Heat the oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, stir the brown sugar, butter, baking soda, cinnamon, vanilla, salt and eggs with a wooden spoon until well mixed. Stir in the oats, flour and raisins until mixed.
  • 2
    For each cookie, scoop a rounded tablespoonful of dough, using a tableware spoon, and push it onto an ungreased cookie sheet with another spoon or rubber spatula, placing cookies 2 inches apart.
  • 3
    Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until light brown. Remove cookies from cookie sheets to a cooling rack, using a turner. Cool cookie sheets 10 minutes between batches.

  • Press dough in ungreased 8-inch square pan. Bake about 25 minutes or until light brown. Cool in pan on cooling rack. For 16 bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
120
Calories from Fat
50
Total Fat
6g
9%
Saturated Fat
3 1/2g
17%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
25mg
8%
Sodium
110mg
5%
Potassium
60mg
2%
Total Carbohydrate
16g
5%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
8g
Protein
2g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
4%
4%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
4%
4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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