Saturday, February 20, 2010

Best Oatmeal Cookies EVER!

This is the BEST oatmeal raisin cookie reciepe I have ever tried - THEY WERE GREAT!

Ingredients
(Whisk together and set aside)

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon kosher salt


Cream wet ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

Then stir in

3 cups oats (not instant)

1 1/2 cups raisins

Directions

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.  - Your beater shape will be left in the mixture and if you use a hand mixer you can actually feel it get lighter and easier to beat

With a wooden spoon stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture until no flour is visible.
(Over mixing develops the gluten, making a tough cookie.)

Now stir in the oats and raisins with the wooden spoon.

Fill cookie scoop with dough. (Use a #40 cookie scoop; it measures 2 tablespoon of dough) Press against side of bowl, pulling up to level 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.
 
ENJOY!
 
Nutrition Facts
(according to Recipe Zaar)


Serving Size 1 cookies
Recipe makes 36 cookies

Calories 188
Total Fat 6.4g
Total Carbohydrate 30.3g
Dietary Fiber 1.8g

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