Quaker`s Best Oatmeal Cookies
Created by KittenCal on May 24, 2014
- Servings: 48
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 8-11m
- Recipe #12625
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup dark brown sugar (firmly packed)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar (if you like it sweeter use more)
- 1 1/4 cups butter (room temperature)
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (I used 1 tablespoon)
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (I increased to 2 teaspoons)
- 1/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 3 cups oats (quick oats, uncooked)
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (optional or 3/4 cup raisins)
- Granulated sugar (for coating the dough balls - optional)
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Set oven rack to second-lowest position.
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Step 2: Beat together butter and both sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices; add to butter mixture, mixing well. Stir in oats.
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Step 3: Place rounded tablespoonfuls of cookie dough onto light greased cookie sheet, then coat the balls in granulated sugar.
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Step 4: Bake 8 to 9 minutes for a chewy cookie, 10 to 11 minutes for a crisp cookie. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire cooling rack. Store in tightly covered container.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (27.7 g)
- Calories 122.7
- Total Fat - 6.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 3.3 g
- Cholesterol - 17.1 mg
- Sodium - 119.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 15.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 5.2 g
- Protein - 2.6 g
- Calcium - 10.9 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg