When the holidays arrive, avid bakers start baking cookies of all kinds – the kinds we never see at other times of the year: the shortbread, the gingerbread, the decorated sugar cookie, the snowball, the thumbprint. These are the cookies that are dressed to the nines in December, showing off at all the holiday parties. Often, the tried and true cookies, the ones that do their due diligence every day of the year, get forgotten about during the holiday season. So, let’s bring them out and celebrate their year-round deliciousness. I’m talking about the chocolate chip cookie and of course, its partner in crime, the oatmeal raisin cookie.
Now, if we put a regular oatmeal raisin cookie on a holiday cookie platter, chances are it might be the last to go because of its familiar and unexciting appearance. However, if you decorate that oatmeal cookie up, look at what happens. Drizzling a little icing on top, looking like a beautiful trail of snow, makes it fit right in with its celebratory counterparts.
Oatmeal raisin cookies will always be second best to the chocolate chip in my world, but I have to admit that they look darned good dressed up!
Easy to make. Family loved it. I made some with icing some without. Great recipe. Thx. D
From across the pond I received the recipe and made a batch the next to take to my sons supported living community. Having had the rhythm of their working week turned upside down because of Covid-19 they are all enjoying special festive tea breaks with seasonal stories and songs and everyone loved the the biscuits, or cookies as you called them.
Thank you so much. Susan
Like you said, this is the second best cookie and absolutely one of my husband favorites. I just finished baking them and my kitchen smells deliciousness, can’t wait for them to cool down so my husband and I can enjoy one or two, thank you!!!
I haven’t made the cookies yet. I have a question: can Quaker quick oats be substituted for the rolled oats?
Thank you.
They sure can, Brenda.
ML
My last attempt at an oatmeal raisin cookie for my husband. Turned out beautifully! I did not frost as he is diabetic. Only cookie he wants on special occasions. I should have just started with BJC recipe to start with. Thank you very much.
excellent cookie! They are the perfect mix of soft and chewy and a little bit crispy. Even after a week they were still good (stored in Lock and Lock, of course). I did not frost them so I could eat them like a granola bar for breakfast and not feel too guilty.
What makes mixture so dry! Followed recipe exact! Cookies fell apart as they cooked! So disappointing!😞
Sorry you had an issue with the recipe. The cookie dough shouldn’t be that dry. You should be able to easily drop the tablespoons of dough on the cookie sheet. The recipe has been tested several times, and the results yield a chewy cookie with crisp edges. It is hard to say why the cookies fell apart.