Sweet & Salty Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
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How create yous get upwards the humble piddling cookie buddy that is the oatmeal raisin cookie? Oatmeal raisin is form of similar the "vanilla" of H2O ice creams. It has this reputation every bit existence a irksome flavour, in addition to they accept a difficult fourth dimension competing amongst the classic homemade chocolate chip cookie. But oatmeal raisin has a squeamish homey feel, too... amongst a flare-up of wellness in addition to a fibre boot to boot! Don't post away the oatmeal raisin! Unless yous loathe raisins... inward which case, swap out raisins for... chocolate chips!
These oatmeal raisin cookies are buttery, crisp, oaty (ha), sweetness in addition to salty, too, amongst the teensy fancified add-on of Maldon body of body of water tabular array salt crystals. Give these cookies a try... they come upwards together super fast in addition to they volition live on the best business office of your adjacent day's dejeuner hr (if they concluding that long, if you're a cookie grunter similar me...).
Sweet & Salty Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Ingredients
1 loving cup unsalted butter, room temperature
3/4 loving cup granulated sugar
1/2 loving cup calorie-free brownish sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 loving cup spelt flour
2 1/2 cups oats
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon body of body of water tabular array salt or tabular array salt
1 loving cup raisins (I used organic thompson raisins)
teensy fleck of Maldon body of body of water tabular array salt flakes (optional)
Make It!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line ii baking sheets amongst parchment paper. Makes roughly 2 dozen cookies.
1. Using a stand upwards mixer or paw held beaters inward a large bowl, cream together the butter in addition to sugars until calorie-free in addition to fluffy.
2. Scrape downward sides of bowl. Add egg in addition to pure vanilla extract, mixing to incorporate.
3. In a large bowl, sift together the spelt flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda in addition to body of body of water salt.
4. Slowly add together the dry out ingredients to the butter mixture in addition to mix until combined.
5. Throw inward the raisins in addition to mix until incorporated.
6. Scoop out 2 inch balls of cookie dough onto baking sheets, evenly spaced.
7. Add a few crystals of Maldon body of body of water tabular array salt to the tops of each cookie.
8. Bake for 13-15 minutes, depending on how hot your oven gets, turning pans halfway through baking time.
Note: I made these twice. The 2nd fourth dimension I made them, my butter was genuinely nonetheless on the colder side - in addition to the cookies didn't spread every bit much every bit the start batch. You tin refrigerate the baking sheets amongst the cookie dough doled out onto them for an hr earlier baking to preclude cookie spreading - if yous tin stand upwards to expect that long to bake them in addition to swallow them!
Enjoy your irksome erstwhile oatmeal raisin sweetness in addition to salty cookies, everyone! ;)
Until adjacent time! Thanks for reading!
xo Lyndsay
Lyndsay is a self-taught bakery in addition to subsequent enthusiastic blogger. She loves makin' foods in addition to bakin' goods, in addition to shares her stories, recipes in addition to foodstuffs on ! Her other operate tin live on constitute on her cake blog: Coco Cake, her H2O ice cream blog: Ice Cream yesteryear Coco Cake in addition to her nutrient oddities in addition to delights blog: Trompe Chomp!