Perfect Oatmeal Cookies | Recipes | Spoonful

By rockyb63

Ingredients

• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup sweetened, flaked coconut
• 1 stick butter (I use salted)
• 2 tablespoons boiling water
• 1 tablespoon Lyle's Golden Syrup (or light corn syrup)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (or half as much table salt)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from spoonful.com

Preparation

Step 1

1
Heat the oven to 300º F and prepare a large cookie sheet. I cover mine with parchment paper for even browning and easy clean-up, but you could grease it instead.

2
In a large bowl, stir together the oats, coconut, flour, sugar and salt. Meanwhile melt the butter and syrup together in a small pot over low heat.

3
Stir the baking soda into the boiling water, then stir this into the butter and syrup and pour all of it over the dry ingredients. Stir well, then drop cookie-sized amounts (we use a heaping melon baller, which is about 2 teaspoons I think) onto the baking sheets, leaving plenty of space for them to spread.

4
Bake for 12-15 minutes, switching the pan around for even baking if needed, until the cookies are golden all over and quite brown on the edges (keep an eye on them -- they can burn quickly); the cookies will look puffy when you remove them from the oven, and then they will sink and go a bit lacy. Leave them on the cookie sheet for 3 or 4 minutes before removing them with a spatula to cool on a rack; if you go at them too early, they will fall all to pieces.

5
Repeat: it will take 3 batches to get all the cookies baked. Yum.