Simple Oatmeal Cookies
These delicious cookies are made from your everyday oats. It has a crisp-tender texture, stores pretty well, and very easy to make.
- Reading time
- 1 MIN READ
- Ingredients
- 6 INGREDIENTS
- Step photos
- 15 PHOTOS
- Video
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These delicious cookies are made from your everyday oats. It has a crisp-tender texture, stores pretty well, and it's very easy to make.
INGREDIENTS / 06
- Oats - 2 cups
- Sugar - 1/4 cup to 1/3 cup
- Salted butter - 1/2 cup
- Egg - 1
- Vanilla essence - 1 1/2 teaspoons
- Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon - optional
METHOD / 17
1 MIN READ- 01
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
- 02
MAKE THE OAT FLOUR
- 03
Add half of the oats to a blender or food processor and blend into a fine powder. Set aside.
- 04
In a medium bowl, add the butter and sugar. You can use brown sugar, granulated, or powder sugar.
- 05
Cream until it is light and fluffy. About 3 to 5 minutes.
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Add the egg and vanilla essence.
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Beat well. Scrape side and bottom of the bowl, mix again until combined.
- 08
Add the oat flour
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Beat just until it is combined. Do not overmix.
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Add the oats. You can use quick oats or rolled oats.
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Fold in, cover, and chill in the freezer for 10 minutes to firm up.
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Scoop out some dough with a spoon. Roll into little balls.
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Roll in sugar - ( This is totally optional ) and repeat the process.
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Arrange on a baking sheet. This recipe makes 15 to 18 cookies
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Flatten with the bottom of a cup or a spoon. Bake in the preheated oven for 13 to 16 minutes, until the edges are lightly browned.
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Remove from oven and let cool completely in the tray on a wire rack.
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Enjoy!
Store leftover cookies in an airtight container.
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RECIPE BY
Dolapo Grey
PUBLISHED AUGUST 17, 2020
