Oatmeal Candy Cookies Recipes

NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Add the first six ingredients into a 4-quart sauce pan.
• Bring to a rolling boil and hold for 1 minute.
• Remove from heat.
• Add peanut butter into the hot mixture and stir until melted.
• Add in vanilla. (almond extract is good also, but I only use 1/2 teaspoon almond extract with 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract).
• Mix in the dry oats until they are completely coated.
• Drop cookies by tablespoonfuls onto wax paper.
• Let cool until set.
• *Please remember that even if you do follow the recipe exactly, it doesn't always turn out just right. I've had these not set up for me or be hard and dry. But most of the time, the recipe is just right. I adjusted the sugar in the recipe by substituting 1/2 cup of white sugar for 1/2 cup brown sugar, this makes them more moist. I have also found that it makes a difference if you use quick cooking oats or old fashioned. In my experience it takes more old fashioned oats than quick cooking and I like the texture of the quick cooking better. When you make it a few hundred times like I have you learn a couple of things:) Also, Chunky peanut butter tends to make them more dry and crumbly.

DANDY CANDY OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease baking sheet.
• Combine sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter and Crisco in a large bowl.
• With a mixer; beat at medium speed until well blended and fluffy.
• Add eggs, vanilla and maple syrup.
• Beat at high speed 3-4 minutes.
• Stirring with a spoon add baking soda and 2-1/4 cups oats.
• Stir in candy.
• Stir in remaining 2-1/4 cups oats.
• Shape dough into 1-1/2-inch balls.
• Flatten slightly.
• Place 2 inches apart on greased baking sheet.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 9-10 minutes for chewy cookies or 11-12 minutes for crispy cookies.
• Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet before removing to cooling rack.

NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE-OATMEAL DROP COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix milk, sugar, butter, and cocoa powder in a large saucepan and bring to a rolling boil. Boil, stirring frequently, for about 1 minute. Remove from heat and add oats, coconut, peanut butter, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
• Drop tablespoon-sized balls of cookie dough onto waxed paper and let cool in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

UNBAKED CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Cook butter or margarine, milk and sugar in kettle and boil for 1 and 1/2 minutes.
• Add peanut butter, oatmeal, cocoa powder and any one of the optional ingredients.
• Drop on waxed paper and allow to cool before serving.

EASY OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray; set aside.
• To a large bowl, add the egg, butter, sugars, vanilla, and mix with a spoon aggressively for about 90 seconds, or until smooth and slightly fluffed, i.e. your bicep and shoulder should be burning if you've mixed well enough.
• Add the oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and stir to combine.
• Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
• Using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop, form mounds and place on prepared baking sheet spaced about 2 inches apart (I baked 12 cookies on the first sheet)
• Bake for about 10 to 13 minutes (short for super soft cookies, longer for more well-done cookies), or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don't overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
• Immediately upon taking the baking sheet out of the oven, add about 5 additional chocolate chips per cookie. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don't use a rack.

M&M OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In a large bowl, mix butter and sugars together for 2-3 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and blend for another 2 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt until well combined.
• Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Add the oats, half of the M&Ms and chocolate chips and stir until evenly distributed throughout the dough.
• Place the other half of the M&Ms into a small bowl. Use a cookie scoop to scoop the dough into balls and then press the top of each cookie dough ball into the M&Ms, so that each cookie dough ball is well coated with M&Ms on the top.
• Place cookie dough balls onto a well-greased cookie sheet or a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
• Bake cookies for about 12 minutes or until the edges just barely begin to brown. Don't overbake! Let the cookies cool on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.

OATMEAL 'BASTARD' COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 350°F
• Grease some of your cookie sheets.
• Cream shortening and sugars in a bowl.
• Add eggs, vanilla, water to the mixture. Beat until *fluffy*.
• Mix flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon in *another* bowl. Add to first mixture *a little at a time* until a dough is formed.
• Mix in your oatmeal and candy.
• Spoon onto your cookie sheets. Flatten cookies *slightly*.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until *lightly browned* all over. Don't forget to turn off your oven.