I thought of making another type of cookie with my left over ingredients from the Peanut Butter & Choco Chip cookies I made earlier... I tried researching for a good Oatmeal Cookie Recipe and came across this one (I also did some modifications on the ingredients to suit what I already have).
Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups unbleached flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 cups quick cooking oats
1/4 cup raisins (optional)
1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)
Procedure
1. In a mixing bowl, mix butter, white sugar, and brown sugar.
2. Add and Beat eggs one at a time
3. Add and stir in vanilla.
4. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and stir into the mixture
5. Add and mix in oats. (You can also add raisins or chocolate chips if you want)
6. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour.
7. Preheat oven to 190C (375F).
8. Prepare the pan and baking sheets.
9. Using hands, roll the dough for each cookie into 1 inch diameter ball.
10. Arrange cookies on prepared baking pan with sheet, spacing 2 inches apart.
11. Flatten each cookie with a large fork (dipped with sugar so it doesn't stick)
12. Bake cookies for 12 to 15 minutes in pre-heated oven (20 to 25 minutes if you want it crunchy on the outside)
13. Cool cookies on baking sheets for 5 minutes. Using a spatula, transfer cookies and cool completely.
Outcome
The procedure is almost similar to the Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip cookie I made earlier, however, I find this a must to be chilled in the ref for at least hour. When not cold, the dough is very sticky and tends to stick in your palms when you roll it in a ball. This is the reason why you need to dip the fork in sugar when you are flattening the Oatmeal Cookie ball.
Upon baking, I also noticed that this Oatmeal Cookie dough expands and spreads out unlike the Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip cookie dough. Therefore, you have to make sure that spacing is at least 2 to 2.5 inches a part.
The first batch of Oatmeal Cookies I made are quite soft in the inside (not too good for my taste but my wife says it is good). The next batch I made are with chocolate chips and I tried baking it for 10 minutes instead. The outcome is a much softer cookie which tends to easily break when you hold it. The third batch I tried is with raisins. I baked it for 15 minutes which made it soft in the inside but a bit crunchy on the outside. For the last batch, I added chocolate chips again but this time I baked it for 20 minutes. This made it crunchy on the outside and a bit chewy to the bite (which I prefer). I bet baking it for 25 minutes will really make it crunchy but unfortunately, I ran out of dough and wasn't able to try it anymore.
All in all, I made about 31 cookies. =)
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