This recipe for Easy and Good Oatmeal Cookies is one of my oldest and most reliable oatmeal cookie recipes. I make them with different kinds of flours including all-purpose, white whole wheat and for even chewier cookies, bread flour.
In the past I’d make Easy and Good Oatmeal Cookies with evaporated cane juice sugar (organic sugar), but these days I usually just use granulated. I’m going to test them with coconut sugar one of these days.
Just About Fool Proof
One thing about the Easy and Good Oatmeal Cookies recipe is that it is hard to mess up. Unless you do something crazy like leave out the sugar or try to substitute half the fat, the cookies should be chewy and thick.
Easy and Good Oatmeal Cookies
MAKES ABOUT 30 COOKIES
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour or white whole wheat flour (4.5 oz/126 grams)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 ounces unsalted butter — cut up, cool room temperature (114 grams)
1/2 cup granulated sugar or evaporated cane juice crystals (100 grams
1/2 cup dark brown sugar – firmly packed (110 grams)
1 large egg, room temperature
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups oats, quick cooking or old fashioned
3/4 cups raisins (plumped and drained)
1/3 cup chopped — toasted pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Have ready 2 ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheets.
Stir flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together in a medium bowl; set aside.
Cream butter and both sugars in a mixing bowl using high speed of an electric mixer; add egg and vanilla and beat just until egg is mixed in. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir just until mixed. Stir in oats, raisins and pecans.
Using a tablespoon measure, scoop up dough and shape it into 1 ¼ inch balls; Arrange about 2 1/2 inches apart on baking sheets.
Bake 12-14 minutes, one sheet at a time, on center rack. Remove from oven; let cookies sit on baking sheet for 2-4 minutes. Carefully transfer to a rack to cool.
beth reis
I have been looking for a crunchy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies recipe for years! Yours is perfect! It’s crunchy, delicious and will now be my only Oatmeal Raisin Cookies recipe! Thanks for being true to the description you gave when I was researching.
Liz
I had a hankering for some oatmeal raisin cookies and found your recipe. They were delightful!! However I didn’t have brown sugar, so I used 3/4 cup of granulated sugar and 1/4 cup of maple syrup. DELICIOUS.
shoyski
Anna, these turned out great! We used currants…thought I had raisins on hand but the currants plumped up nicely. Thanks for the recipe!
Shelley
Angela
Thanks for this recipe– it’s really delicious!!
Alicia
I’m allergic to wheat, but can indulge in other gluten-ful grains, so I made this recipe with barley flour instead of wheat. I also used cranberries and chocolate chips in addition to raisins (about 1/4 cup of each to make up the 3/4 called for). I’ve found in wheat-free and gluten-free baking that whole oats just won’t hold the cookie together, so I’ve experimented with both quick cook and with chopping up old fashioned oats in a blender. Delicious both ways, but I prefer chopping up the old fashioned oats for a softer, chewier cookie. This is the first wheat-free oatmeal raisin cookie I’ve succeeded in making that holds together as a cookie and tastes amazing… though I have yet to get a gluten-free one to hold together. Thanks!
Anna
Sue, thanks for trying those cookies!
Sue
Today I finally got around to making these cookies. They are great!! Thanks for sharing yet another great recipe!!
Lala
these are so good and easy to make!
Carol A,
I made these yesterday, they sure are delicious! Great flavor and texture. Yum, the raw dough is extra scrumptious, too. I did put half a cup of chocolate chips in, instead of raisins – I’m just not that crazy about raisins, and well, chocolate chips go with just about anything. They taste great in these cookies, for sure.
AND I got to try out my brand new air insulated cookie sheet! I don’t know if the cookies came out better, but it sure was nice to use a sparkling clean, flat pan that will be dedicated to cookies only!
Anna
Dani, you could, but the texture would change. I kind of liked the butter here because it gave the cookies crispy edges and a good solid structure.
Dani
Do you think you could substitute the butter with oil or applesauce to make them even more wholesome?
Anna
Jill, thanks. This is all good information for me to take to the doctor tomorrow. Thanks for the help.
Tram, yes. I am using it the same as I would regular flour. It weighs the same too. That is, about 4 1/2 oz (give or take a few grams).
Tram
Do you find that you can use white whole wheat flour cup for cup in place of all-purpose?
Therese
Anna;
I am sorry to hear you are having eye troubles again!!! When you see the doctor check on the prescription drug Restassis. I know that is specificially for dry eye syndrome. I hope you can get in sooner than later. I remember my hubby having that…it is so irritating!!!
Thank you for posting this recipe..looks so yummy!!
You have evaporated cane sugar…is that the same as evaporated milk? I just need to clarify!
I hope you get it all situated with your eyes!
Emiline
Sorry about your eyes! Hope you feel better soon.
I think I might make these tonight. I have a bag of those jumbo raisins that I need to use up. The problem is, around here nobody appreciates oatmeal raisin cookies.
Anna
Evaporated Cane Sugar is like granulated sugar but slightly tan in color. It’s supposed to have more nutritional value and it does seem to have a little more natural flavor. More and more stores are selling it, but if you can’t find it, just use granulated.
Anna
Well, I like the icebox idea. Todd’s favorite dessert ever is probably that chocolate cookie & Cool Whip icebox cake.
Thanks for the eye sympathy. I’ve been using something called “Systane” which seems to help a little.
Sue
I’ve been hungry for oatmeal cookies lately and was considering making your Big Fat Maple Cranberry, Walnut,Oatmeal cookies. They’re sooo good! But, maybe I should give these a go instead.
Maybe in honor of Seward’s Day, you could make icebox cookies. Somehow that seems fitting. 🙂