The Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

You know my dearest of color, pattern, in addition to dark in addition to white, in addition to thus it should last no surprise that growing upward I loved Mary Engelbreit designs...from the calendars, to banker's complaint pads, to prints...I fifty-fifty subscribed to her journal for a few years.

Years ago, from i of those magazines, I clipped the best oatmeal raisin cookie recipe.  I haven't made them inwards a while, simply yesterday was chilly in addition to called for comfort nutrient in addition to thus I made a batch for the kids' later schoolhouse snack.

This is non a especially "healthy" version, simply a few changes could  be made to the recipe, similar using whole wheat flour, adding flax seed, using whole oats, etc., to instruct inwards a piddling fleck better.

Mary Engelbreit Magazine Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

iii eggs, good beaten                          1 loving cup raisins
1 tsp. vanilla                                      1 loving cup butter, softened
1 1/3 c. dark-brown sugar, packed        3/4 c. granulated sugar
2 1/2 c. flour                                     1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. solid soil cinnamon                2 tsp. baking soda
2 c. quick laid oatmeal                 3/4 c. chopped pecans, optional

I very believe this is the hole-and-corner to this recipe beingness in addition to thus yummy...

the raisins are soaked inwards an egg/vanilla mixture for an sixty minutes earlier manus to plump them up.

Combine eggs, raisins, in addition to vanilla inwards bowl in addition to cover.  Let correspond 1 hour.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Cream together butter in addition to sugars.  Add flour, salt, cinnamon, in addition to baking soda.  Mix well.  Add raisin mixture, oatmeal, in addition to optional chopped nuts.  Dough volition look dry.  Drop past times tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie canvas close 2" apart.

Bake for 10-12 minutes until lightly browned.  Cool on rack.

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