Oatmeal Sugar Cookies

By Addie

"A combination of two favorite cookies...oatmeal and sugar. Another recipe from my childhood!"

Ingredients

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation

Step 1

1. Cream sugar, shortening (may substitute 1/2 cup butter or margarine), eggs and vanilla thoroughly. Mix in remaining ingredients. Refrigerate 4 to 5 hours or overnight.


2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

3. Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Flatten with greased bottom of glass dipped in sugar. Bake for 10 minutes.
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REVIEWS:

Good tasting cookie. I used butter instead of shortening, substituted 1/4 cup flax meal for 1/4 flour, used whole wheat for the rest of the flour, did not refrigerate, and baked 2 large cookies at 350 to use as fruit pizza crust.

These are wonderful! I had to use the link to scale the recipe in half because I found to my dismay that I was severely low on flour, but since there's only 2 of us it's not a bad thing.. I still wound up with 16 cookies! I changed nothing except the vanilla- I left that amount the same as in the regular size recipe because I love vanilla. I hate hard-like-cement cookies and these are so far from it. YAY! Thanks for sharing!

Interesting idea, an oatmeal/sugar cookie combo, but unfortunately, the cookies came out pretty dry, though the flavor was nice. They sort of reminded me of mini scones.

I love oatmeal and sugar cookies, so when I saw this recipe I had to try it. I let the dough sit in the fridge overnight and then baked the next day. They taste just like a sugar cookie with oatmeal and are wonderful.

So great! I made them using butter and omitted the raisins and then frosted with home-made butter cream frosting. Holy Moly!!!! They turned out wonderful!!

WOW - the taste is very YUMMY !! I also put about half cup of pineapples, and half cup of sugar instead of the cup, and the other half of artifical sugar. Very easy to make.

Very good, I will definitely make these cookies again. Made 40 cookies. I did grease the cookie sheets. My oven temperature was set at 350°. Didn’t realize until after baking the temperature said 375° in the recipe. Anyway they were perfect. Thanks.

Delicious cookies, but they came out too flat for me (most cookies do though) so I made some frosting with powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and milk and I sandwiched frosting between two cookies. They were delicious, like Little Debbies, but better! :)

I left out the raisins, but the cookies were awesome!!! Great for cutouts!!!

These cookies were light and crispy, I might have cooked them at too high of a temperature because the raisins tasted a little burned. Besides that they have a nice flavor and are quick and easy to make. My two year old helped throw the ingredients together.

This is a great recipe...I have been making these cookies for my family for years. I believe the previous reviewer baked the cookies too long and that is why they were too hard. Try these, but do not overbake and you will love them.

Very good recipe I would use butter flavor shortening next time though.

Very Good... I kept an eye on them so they wouldn't cook too long. Golden around the edges and a nice little crisp when you bite into these not too chewy cookie. My 4 yr old loved it!

Mmmmm, I just pulled these out of the oven, they are Excellent. I added a touch of nutmeg as well. I definitely think the secret is not in overcooking. Mine are just golden around the edges with squiggly crack lines running across the top, slightly crispy, but oh so chewy soft once you bite in. A keeper!

What a lovely cookie! Thank you, Robin. I looked for an oatmeal cookie that didn't call for brown sugar, because I was out of it - I was out of raisins, too, ;o(. I did substitute 1/3 cup butter. Next time I may increase the cinnamon to 1 teaspoon, just because we love cinnamon. But the cookie turned out nice and crisp - great texture, great taste. I have some of them in the freezer now. This will be a standard in our house.