Michelles Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies
From michellem 17 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 24
I love Oatmeal cookies and these are the best ever. I have tried every recipe around and this one is by far the BEST. I met a lady at my sons baseball game who was in search for the perfect oatmeal cookie and was having the hardest time finding a good recipe. Read more Well I gave her mine and she came back the next game with a container full of the cookies and was so thrilled about them! See less
Ingredients
- 3 eggs,wellbeaten shopping list
- 1 cup raisins shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla shopping list
- 1 cup butter flavored crisco shopping list
- 1 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 1 cup white sugar shopping list
- 2 1/2 cups flour shopping list
- 1 tsp salt shopping list
- 2 tsp soda shopping list
- 1 tsp cinnamon shopping list
- 2 cups old fashioned oats shopping list
- 1 cups nuts( optional) shopping list
How to make it
- Combine eggs, raisins and vanilla in a bowl and let stand 1 hour(this step is what makes these cookies the best)
- Cream the crisco, brown sugar and white sugar.
- Add slowly the flour, salt, soda and cinnamon. Mix well.
- Add the egg raisin and vanilla mixture. Mix.
- Add the oats and nuts. Dough will be stiff.
- Roll in to balls .
- Roll in white sugar(do this step,it makes it so good)
- Put on cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10 to 12 minutes.
the raisins soaking in the eggs here.
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Getting ready to mix the raisins in.
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Me mixing the raisins in!
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You have to real mix hard!
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Cookie Dough being rolled in sugar.
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Putting in the oven!
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The Rating
Reviewed by 18 people-
I just bought butter flavored crisco for another recipe and these cookies provide another use for it. = )
sunny
in Portland loved it
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They look great! I will be making them using butter. I live in WI, it's almost a sin to use anything else here. I will let you know how they turn out.
trackwidow
in Fort Atkinson loved it
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THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS. I love oatmeal cookies. I use butter in everything. I learned from trial and error and best soft cookies use crisco. I always believed in sweet butter for all my recipes but when you use butter the cookies will be crun...more
recipediva
in Pittsburgh loved it
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