Easy Oatmeal Cookies + Chocolate Chips or Dried Fruits
Easy Oatmeal Cookies. You will love making these cookies and all the variations; Oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips, oatmeal cookies with dried fruits....See all the variations for this easy oatmeal cookies recipe.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 3/4-1 cup cup brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1-1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. salt optional
- 3 cups oatmeal quick or old fashioned my favorite is Quaker Oats Old Fashioned
- 1/2 cup bag semi sweet chocolate chips for half the batch
- 1/2 cup bag dried apricots for half the batch
- 1 cup chopped walnuts optional
Instructions
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Pre heat oven to 350*
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Cream butter & sugar together
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Add eggs, vanilla into bowl.
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In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, mix well.
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Then add oatmeal mix together with wet ingredients & then split batch. In half the batch add semi sweet chocolate chips.
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In the other batch add apricots and walnuts.
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Scoop onto parchment paper or non stick pan.
Bake 8-10 min. rotate pan if cookies are larger, then bake another 3-5 min. Watch to see they are light brown and check bottoms.
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Cool on baking sheet a few minutes then finish cooling on a cooling rack.
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Makes about 4 doz.
Recipe Notes
Original recipe calls for 1 cup raisins if not splitting the batch for variations use 1 cup of dried fruits, chocolate chips or nuts.
Adapted from Quaker Oats Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies Recipe.