Luxury Oatmeal Cookies

March 10, 2015

I used to covet Oatmeal Cookies for their chewy, sticky and sweetness, but I stopped liking them for their raw, chewy and sticky sweetness. Funny how we change. While Rose’s cookies don’t have that raw oat character, and they aren’t sticky really, they are still too sweet for me. I just didn’t fall off my chair for them. Rick described them as pillowy, and he’s right. If you are an oatmeal cookie lover, I expect you will love this recipe, but I could take them or leave them.

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Ingredients

Volume Grams Ounces

Instructions

SPECIAL COOKIE EQUIPMENT

Baking trays , acurate scale , stand mixer or a hand mixer

MAKING GRANOLA

Love granola!

Rolled oats, dark brown sugar and cinnamon.

Love it, but I like it crunchy and toasty.

This granola had that raw, soggy oatmeal thing going on. If I had left it in the oven longer, I’m sure it would have been more to my taste. I also want to note that the recipe yielded just over 4 cups, not 5 like the book indicated. Maybe I did something wrong? Dunno.

COOKIE DOUGH

I should probably note that I didn’t use raisins, but dried prunes instead simply because I had them on hand.

The cookie dough came together without a hitch.

I really didn’t feel like separating the dough into thirds and wrapping each piece in plastic, so I left the dough in the mixing bowl and covered the bowl with plastic. The next day, I spooned some dough onto the counter, put the bowl back in the fridge.

Only some of the cold cookie dough on the counter.

And, formed my cookies.

I should also note that I REALLY enjoyed the raw cold dough. I definitely liked it better than the baked cookie.

BAKE THE COOKIES

I had difficulty determining when the cookies were done. They were certainly brown along the edges, and soft in the center, and I knew they needed to be chewy when cool, but I didn’t want them to be raw. How soft is too soft was the burning question. So I erred on the side of softer.

Luxury oatmeal cookies, The Finer Cookie.

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