Mike has been requesting oatmeal cookies for quite some time now. What better recipe to use than his own mother's? My mother-in-law had given me a bunch of her amazing recipes. I have finally started to put them to good use.
Mom's Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups butter (4 sticks)
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup water
- 4 cups flour
- 5 cups quick oatmeal
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cinnamon
Optional add-ins:
- 2-3 cups chopped walnuts
- 2-3 cups raisins
- 1 1/2 cups Craisins & 1 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped dates, or dried chopped apricots, or cut up dried prunes.
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Mix butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and water in a large bowl.
- In another large bowl mix flour, oats, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
- Gradually mix dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
- Add your choice of optional add-ins and mix together by hand.
- Drop spoonfuls of dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.
For this batch, I cut the recipe in half. It makes a lot of oatmeal cookies which is great for around the holidays for cookie exchanges and gift-giving. For sweets for my Valentine's day sweetie, half the recipe was more than enough. We were still able to share, too.
I chose to make some with chocolate chips, some with raisins, and some with Craisins and white chocolate chips. My favorite were definitely the ones with the Craisins (dried cranberries) and white chocolate chips. That combo was super scrumptious. The red Craisins make them a little more festive, too. Perfect for Valentine's day or anytime!
The texture of these cookies is great, too. The cookies are light, fluffy, and just chewy enough in my opinion. Give them a try if you like oatmeal cookies!
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Fee Roberts says
These looks so good. I love oatmeal cookies. I’ve never tried Craisins. I’ll have to give this a shot.
Julie Wood says
I love your cookies and want to make these! They look delicious and easy to make. I am very good at making cookies and I think oatmeal is one of my favorite all time cookies to make!
Margot C says
When I amke something like this I reconstitute the craisins a but with boiling water first. I makes them more tender.
M.Clark says
I am not a fan of white chocolate, but this would be great for my mother because she likes white chocolate. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Christi says
Those look delicious! I’ve never thought about putting white chocolate chips in oatmeal cookies before. Will definitely have to try this recipe!
Shannon says
Wow these sound and look amazing! Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
lisa says
YUM! I love oatmeal cookies so I will have to try this recipe!
Sandy Klocinski says
This recipe is a great one. Yum!
Tammi @ My Organized Chaos says
What a delicious classic though I’ve never thought of adding in Craisins, that would make it soooo good! Thanks for the idea!
Kelly Hutchinson says
I love oatmeal cookies and I love craisins, but would never have thought to put the two together. These look scrumptious!
Aubrey says
Those look yummy. I’m a fan of Crasins and never thought of using them in oatmeal cookies.
Nicole Dz says
I love the optional add ons, I would add it all in, looks so yummy, great to have with some hot tea.
Jesica H says
Those look very tasty, I like the addition of the craisins.
Amber Edwards says
I’m so loving the addiction of the craisins! That totally makes this better than any other oatmeal cookie!
Tess says
I love oatmeal cookies. I feel like they are that healthy cookie you can get away with eating.lol
Lisa Bristol says
These sound like great cookies. I will have to try making some when i do my baking on Sunday.
Debra @A Frugal Friend says
Love the optional add-ins……never tried oatmeal cookies any way but plain!
Autumn @Mamachallenge says
Looks delicious and a pretty simple recipe! I have not tried craisins with my oatmeal cookies before, but these look like I am going to have to give it a try.
Rosie says
I used to make oatmeal cookies every week, wow, I don’t know when I stopped. This is a nice and good sized recipe I want to try!
Chelley @ AisForAdelaide says
These sound so good! The perfect sweet treat for my valentine!
Nancy @ Whispered Inspirations says
These are my absolute favorite kind of cookies. Yours looks perfect!
Debi says
Oatmeal cookies are one of my favorites. I have never out cranberries in them
Nicole Neverman says
These oatmeal cookies sound really lovely. If you had a spare moment, I would be delighted if you’d drop this (and anything else you’d like to share) by at the #PureBlogLove anything goes link party! You can find me here:
Barrie says
I love the idea of making these with dried apricots!
cami v says
These sounds so yummy and easy. Thanks for sharing
David Fultner says
I will try this . Thanks
Chelsie Cortez says
These look absolutely yummy! I think in going to have to try this.
Darla Peduzzi says
These look so good. I’ve never tried Craisins before but I bed they’re perfect in this cookie!
David Fultner says
I am the worst cookie maker. But these look good.
Kathleen Kelly says
These look really good! I have pinned the recipe to my board. Thank you!
Linda C. says
Love making cookies. Never thought of adding chocolate chips to oatmeal cookies before.
Mary Czerczyk says
I love cookies and I especially like oatmeal and choc chip cookies. I am going to try this recipe. Thanks.
rochelle haynes says
I love oatmeal cookies they taste good like to try this
Kimberly Flickinger says
These cookies sound delicious, definitely going to try this recipe. Thank you for sharing.