Oatmeal Cookies | Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
With a delightful crunch encircling their edges and a pleasingly chewy center, savoring these Oatmeal Raisin Cookies is an experience filled with pure joy. By incorporating whole wheat flour, these cookies acquire a wholesome aspect, rendering them a touch healthier. So, don't hesitate to indulge in a second cookie, as any guilt is surely left behind.
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup raw sugar – 60 grams or add white sugar
- ½ cup whole wheat flour – 60 to 70 grams
- ⅓ cup Butter – cold & unsalted, 50 grams
- ½ cup rolled oats – 60 grams or add quick cooking oats
- 2 tablespoons golden raisins
- 2 to 4 tablespoons milk – cold or chilled, add as required
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder (ground cinnamon)
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract ⅛ teaspoon vanilla essence
Instructions
Preparation
- Take the sugar in a grinder jar or coffee-grinder.
- Powder finely. Keep aside.If you prefer, you can use ⅓ cup + 2 tablespoons of store-bought powdered sugar or confectioner’s sugar or castor sugar.
- Grease a pan or tray with some butter and keep aside. Also preheat oven at 180° C (356° F) for 15 minutes.Heat both the top and bottom heating elements of your oven or OTG.
Making Oatmeal Cookie Dough
- Take whole wheat flour and cold unsalted butter in a mixing bowl.
- With a knife or pastry cutter, cut the butter in flour and make a bread crumb like texture in flour.
- You can also use your fingertips to mix the cold butter in the flour till the mixture resembles a bread crumb like texture.Alternatively a stand mixer also can be deployed. If the butter starts melting, then keep the mixture in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Then add the powdered sugar or confectioner's sugar, cinnamon powder and vanilla extract.
- Next add rolled oats or quick cooking oats and 2 tablespoons golden raisins. Mix again well.
- Now add 2 to 4 tablespoons chilled (cold) milk in parts.
- Mix and bring the mixture together so that it binds into a dough. Do not knead.
- Just add enough milk in parts to mix and bind the mixture very well. The cookie dough will be sticky.
Making Oatmeal Cookies
- Now scoop out the dough with a tablespoon or any spoon.
- Place the scooped dough on the greased baking tray. Keep some space of about 1.5 to 2 inches between the cookies.
- Make cookies this way with the entire cookie dough. While working on the cookies, do note that the dough is sticky.
- Now gently press the top of each oatmeal cookie with a spatula just to even it and make it smooth.
- Place the cookie tray in the preheated oven in the center rack of an OTG or a regular oven.
- Bake the cookies at 180° C (356° F) for 12 to 14 minutes or till the cookies become light golden.
- Do not over bake them or make them too much golden as then oatmeal cookies will become hard.A way to test is with a spoon or fork press the top of the cookie. It should not create any impression on it.
- Remove the tray from the oven and allow the cookies to cool on the pan for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Then using oven mitts and a spatula remove the cookie and place them on a wired rack.
- Once cooled then store oatmeal cookies in an airtight jar. Serve these chewy oatmeal raisin cookies with milk or tea or coffee.
Nutrition
Calories: 116kcalCarbohydrates: 15gProtein: 1gFat: 6gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.4gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 15mgSodium: 46mgPotassium: 61mgFiber: 1gSugar: 8gVitamin A: 177IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 11mgIron: 0.4mg
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