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Mom’s Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies

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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 Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies

Mom’s Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Mom's Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies

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:

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Mix butter, sugars, eggs, vanilla, and water in a large bowl.
  3. In another large bowl mix flour, oats, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
  4. Gradually mix dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.
  5. Add your choice of optional add-ins and mix together by hand.
  6. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
  7. Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes.
Mom's Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies

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.

Mom's Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies

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!

Mom's Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies
Mom's Recipe for Oatmeal Cookies

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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Comments

  1. Fee Roberts says

    January 22, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    These looks so good. I love oatmeal cookies. I’ve never tried Craisins. I’ll have to give this a shot.

  2. Julie Wood says

    January 22, 2015 at 6:31 pm

    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!

  3. Margot C says

    January 22, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    When I amke something like this I reconstitute the craisins a but with boiling water first. I makes them more tender.

  4. M.Clark says

    January 22, 2015 at 11:25 pm

    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.

  5. Christi says

    January 23, 2015 at 9:26 am

    Those look delicious! I’ve never thought about putting white chocolate chips in oatmeal cookies before. Will definitely have to try this recipe!

  6. Shannon says

    January 23, 2015 at 10:02 am

    Wow these sound and look amazing! Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.

  7. lisa says

    January 23, 2015 at 10:53 am

    YUM! I love oatmeal cookies so I will have to try this recipe!

  8. Sandy Klocinski says

    January 23, 2015 at 11:16 am

    This recipe is a great one. Yum!

  9. Tammi @ My Organized Chaos says

    January 23, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    What a delicious classic though I’ve never thought of adding in Craisins, that would make it soooo good! Thanks for the idea!

  10. Kelly Hutchinson says

    January 23, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    I love oatmeal cookies and I love craisins, but would never have thought to put the two together. These look scrumptious!

  11. Aubrey says

    January 23, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    Those look yummy. I’m a fan of Crasins and never thought of using them in oatmeal cookies.

  12. Nicole Dz says

    January 23, 2015 at 3:08 pm

    I love the optional add ons, I would add it all in, looks so yummy, great to have with some hot tea.

  13. Jesica H says

    January 23, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    Those look very tasty, I like the addition of the craisins.

  14. Amber Edwards says

    January 23, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    I’m so loving the addiction of the craisins! That totally makes this better than any other oatmeal cookie!

  15. Tess says

    January 23, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    I love oatmeal cookies. I feel like they are that healthy cookie you can get away with eating.lol

  16. Lisa Bristol says

    January 23, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    These sound like great cookies. I will have to try making some when i do my baking on Sunday.

  17. Debra @A Frugal Friend says

    January 23, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    Love the optional add-ins……never tried oatmeal cookies any way but plain!

  18. Autumn @Mamachallenge says

    January 23, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    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.

  19. Rosie says

    January 24, 2015 at 11:04 am

    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!

  20. Chelley @ AisForAdelaide says

    January 24, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    These sound so good! The perfect sweet treat for my valentine!

  21. Nancy @ Whispered Inspirations says

    January 26, 2015 at 10:38 am

    These are my absolute favorite kind of cookies. Yours looks perfect!

  22. Debi says

    January 26, 2015 at 12:00 pm

    Oatmeal cookies are one of my favorites. I have never out cranberries in them

  23. Nicole Neverman says

    January 29, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    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:

  24. Barrie says

    January 30, 2015 at 9:10 am

    I love the idea of making these with dried apricots!

  25. cami v says

    February 1, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    These sounds so yummy and easy. Thanks for sharing

  26. David Fultner says

    February 1, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    I will try this . Thanks

  27. Chelsie Cortez says

    February 1, 2015 at 10:39 pm

    These look absolutely yummy! I think in going to have to try this.

  28. Darla Peduzzi says

    February 5, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    These look so good. I’ve never tried Craisins before but I bed they’re perfect in this cookie!

  29. David Fultner says

    February 7, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    I am the worst cookie maker. But these look good.

  30. Kathleen Kelly says

    February 11, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    These look really good! I have pinned the recipe to my board. Thank you!

  31. Linda C. says

    February 17, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    Love making cookies. Never thought of adding chocolate chips to oatmeal cookies before.

  32. Mary Czerczyk says

    February 23, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    I love cookies and I especially like oatmeal and choc chip cookies. I am going to try this recipe. Thanks.

  33. rochelle haynes says

    March 14, 2015 at 10:05 am

    I love oatmeal cookies they taste good like to try this

  34. Kimberly Flickinger says

    June 12, 2017 at 1:43 pm

    These cookies sound delicious, definitely going to try this recipe. Thank you for sharing.

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