Oatmeal Cookies bt Ken

By pattie_d

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups packed light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose or whole wheat or bread flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 1 cup steel cut oats
• 1/2 cup oat-bran
• 1/2 cup flax seeds (Ken uses ground, I used whole)
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut
• 1 cup raisins or cranberries or dried cherries or dried fruit or all the above
• 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Details

Cooking time 15mins
Adapted from 5thjoy.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Grease 1 or more cookie sheets, or use baking paper
Using an electric mixer, cream together, butter, and sugar in a bowl until fluffy.

Add eggs and vanilla and beat until mixture is light in color.

Add buttermilk.

Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice; stir into creamed mixture.

Fold in oatmeal, raisins, walnuts, dried fruit blending well. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until they are light brown and no longer soft.

(Mine were so large they needed more like 20-25 mins.)

Put on a drying rack to cool.