Thin and Crisp Powdered Oatmeal Cookies
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- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
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8 dozen cookies
- Serves:
- 96
ingredients
- 2 cups butter (or 1 cup each butter and margarine)
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups oatmeal (not instant)
- confectioners' sugar, for dusting
directions
- Cream butter or margarine and sugar.
- Add egg and vanilla; beat well.
- Add combined flour, soda and salt; mix thoroughly.
- Stir in oatmeal.
- Drop by teaspoon on cookie sheet.
- Dip fork in water, press cookie down; or use the bottom of a glass.
- Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned.
- While still warm, sprinkle top of cookie with confectioners' sugar.
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Reviews
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Delicious! Delicate and light. I just wish I wasn't giving them away. I used Missfish's idea and rolled them in a log and stored in the fridge until I was ready to bake. I sliced the cookies fairly thin, so I didn't need to press them down. They came out great. I sprinkled with crystal sugar rather than powderd sugar only because I didn't want the powdered sugar to make a mess in the gift bag. Thanks for posting, I'll be making these again.
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These were the hit of my holiday cookie baskets. Delicious. I doubled the recipe, and had more dough than I needed, so I froze it in logs and took it to my mother-in-law's house. When our guests arrived, I thawed it briefly, then sliced and cooked. voila - FRESH cookies that were being eaten as soon as I could sprinkle the sugar on. A new fave at our house. Thank you!
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If you like thin and crispy there is nothing better. I tend to mix up recipes a bit to ad things I enjoy. This recipe was no different. I did everything by the recipe until I got to the oatmeal. I only used approx. 3 cups. I then added the following: toasted pecans chopped up into fine bits, 1/4 cup or more (to taste) of coconut, and a 1/2 bar Hershey's milk chocolate cut up into tiny pieces. I wouldn't use the chocolate chips because they would be to big. You want the tast without having all those great flavors be really noticable. In closing I sprinked as directed and this is, bar none, one of the best cookies I've ever had. I could go into business with just this recipe. PS: these are so very thin and light they are not filled with calories. You can eat two with a cup of coffee and not feel guilty. Enjoy. Maggie G. Los Gatos, CA
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This recipe did NOT disappoint! These are exactly as described. Melt in your mouth good, wafer thin , and the most important part , addictive!! :) I did exactly as the recipe stated , only using my 1/2 Tbsp. measuring spoon to dole out the dough. Oatmeal cookies are ok in my book , but have never been a favorite. Since baking these , I have eaten about 8 or 9 of them!! AACCKK!!! As you can see, this will make a lot of dough. I was baking a couple of different cookies tonight , so after I baked 3 pans of these, I took the rest of the dough and rolled it up like a tube of store bought dough. I'm going to try freezing it , then at a later date , slicing off dough to bake. I'll be sure to review when I do this!! Thanks for an excellent cookie recipe sugarpea! **edited on 12-11-06 I pulled out the frozen dough , after it thawed a LITTLE bit , sliced off slices .. it worked out GREAT. I have homemade oatmeal cookies , NO mixing LOL ... these freeze GREAT!!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.