Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies: Chewy, Crunchy, Delicious!
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
- Ultimate Oatmeal Cookies: Chewy, Crunchy, Delicious!
Welcome back, friends! Today in the kitchen, we’re tackling the ultimate oatmeal cookie recipe. Oatmeal cookies have always been a bit of a challenge for me, but I think I've finally cracked the code. Inspired by Dad’s oatmeal cookies from my childhood, we’ll mix up some buttery, chewy, and delicious cookies that strike the perfect balance between crunchy and soft.
We’ll use a blend of regular flour, oat flour, and both large flake and quick oats to create that perfect texture. We’ll also discuss the finer points of using different types of brown sugar and get into some fun mix-ins. Let’s get baking!
Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients:
250 mL (1 cup) butter
250 mL (1 cup) packed brown sugar
125 mL (½ cup) white sugar
2 eggs
10 mL (2 tsp) vanilla
150 mL (⅔ cup) flour
150 mL (⅔ cup) oat flour
2 mL (½ tsp) baking powder
7 mL (1 ½ tsp) baking soda
Pinch salt
500 mL (2 cups) quick oats
500 mL (2 cups) rolled oats
175 mL (¾ cup) raisins
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF).
Cream together the butter and two sugars.
Beat in the eggs one at time, then the vanilla.
In a separate bowl mix together the two flours, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Mix the two oats into the the butter mixture, then mix in the raisins and the flour mixture.
Drop by the spoonful onto baking trays and bake 12-15 minutes.
I will once again be flying in the Give Hope Wings fundraiser this year! Our June of 2024 flight will see us stop in many communities in Eastern Canada to raise awareness for this worthy cause.
Last year 2023 we raised over $27,000 towards helping our neighbours - we made a positive difference in the lives of many.
Here's the link to the 2024 fundraiser page: support.hopeair.ca/ghw2024/gl...
To learn more about the Hope Air Charity: hopeair.ca/
0:00 welcome
0:24 What is the perfect oatmeal cookie
4:25 What size scoop
5:27 Tasting
7:33 Hope Air
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @glenandfriendscooking
This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking.
#LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking
Check out our Aviation and Flying Channel: / glenshangar
If you want to send cookbooks:
Glen Powell
PO BOX 99900 RE 551 379
RPO HARWOOD PLACE
AJAX
ON
Canada
L1S 0E9
America's Test Kitchen has a solid oatmeal cookies recipe. It uses 1 part butter to 2 parts oil, 1 part flour to 3 parts oats and you brown the butter and only use old fashioned rolled oats for the main oat flavor . It doesn't require any mixer since it comes together by hand. It has been my go to oatmeal cookie recipe for the last 4 years. I highly recommend you try their recipe.
They recipe is for chewy cookies, Glenn offers a crispy variant
Did you have any problem getting that recipe to come together and form them into cookies?
Enthusiastically seconded! I'd also add that my personal favorite variation is the addition of dried cranberries and white chocolate chips.
Can you share the recipe?
@@MoniqueHebert-hs7bl the video recipe is at th-cam.com/video/nfn0O25aDaU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Uk0yc7zrxcT6MtK4 One of the comments near the top lists the ingredients.
I love the Dad's Oatmeal cookies as they are great for dunking in tea. However, I also love a chewy raisin oatmeal cookie.
I didn't know either, so I looked it up: scoop sizes are "approximate number of scoops per US quart."
I love watching Glen’s “Dance of Joy”, 🙂
The highlight is always Julies "ok" as Glen says something a little off and then does a happy dance
Hershy's Cinnamon Chips make Oatmeal Cookies
dangerously delish. 😋
Oooooooooh
I'm not sure if i have raisins but I'm pretty sure i have some of those in my cupboard.
Make a cheese sandwich with two cookies and sharp cheddar cheese in the middle. When my children were late for the bus to school this sandwich was their favorite breakfast. Over 50 years ago.
Yum.
clever
THANK YOU for that brown sugar discussion. I've been going absolutely crazy with some people saying that recently. The difference between the two methods is MASSIVE especially in baking. You couldnt gaslight me into that one no matter how many times I've heard it
So what is the process for real brown sugar, and do you know any brands sold in the US? I use unbleached sugar instead of the bleached kind, but not sure what to look for on brown sugar?
This is the first time hearing this too. Would love to hear more about real brown sugar
@@GoingGreenMom Rogers sugar makes some good stuff. Maybe you can find that in the US?
Size 50 scoop = .64 fl oz = 1.28 Tbsp = 19 ml = 50 scoops per quart.
Before I found out I was allergic to wheat (at 57), my favorite cookie was an oatmeal cookie, but instead of dried fruit, I'd use butterscotch chips. I miss those.....
Whiz your quick oats in the food processor till the appropriate amount of flour is obtained and substitute that for the wheat flour. I have done it many times.
You could check out a monster cookie recipe. They are pretty common around here in Amish country and are naturally gluten free because it doesn't have flour (oatmeal and ? )but they also contain add ins like M&Ms so you could sub out your butterscotch chips if they are wheat free.
Mmmm, now I want cookies.
Sooo... what is "true" brown sugar then? Have you already done a video about that?
I see chewy in the description, I'm there
Absolutely 💯 love Oatmeal in general, and especially Oatmeal cookies 🍪
my grandmother made what is called a Krunchy Kookie in my family. oatmeal, rice crispies & butterscotch chips.. if you eat them cooled after baking.. they stink... sealed in tupperware/ziplick for 2 days they become crunchy chewy wonderful.. great way grandma taught us patience.. lol.. still working on that
it's awesome that you're still working on Dad's recipe to make it better. i just want to share that i found your channel a while back searching for the tortierre recipe (meat pie). forwarded it to someone that had made them for us and she approved. i recently found the airplane channel and it's a lot of fun also. there's so much water in Canada hard to find a patch to land on, lol.
Oatmeal Scotchies are my favs
The old fashioned oatmeal cookies used lard. Farmers didnt waste what they had. Texture varies dependant on using a mixer or stiring with the traditional wooden spoon. The bakery i used to work at has been in business for over 50 years and the owner now in his 80's uses his grandmothers recipe. Lard is the fat and we used both white and brown sugar. All mixed with a wooden spoon. The fat is melted first.
When I lived in Alberta 20 years ago, I had a tour of the Roggers Sugar plant at Taber. I have a cousin who was an engineer there. There sugar is made from sugar beats. I seen the whole thing from unloading the truck to filling the bag. The sugar is brown coming from the start and it was made into white sugar with centrifugal machines. For brown sugar, it was just stopped before all the liquid was removed. It was an intresting tour.
Thanks for explaining, I was guessing that was what happened, but wasn't sure.
Thank you. I just got some oats yesterday after work. :)
In debt from a car repair last month or I would donate (will next moth when I'm back on my feet). Always have to say "thank you" to a person that gives back to their community.
I'll try these.. enjoy a good oatmeal cookie. I'd add a apple pie spice and dried apple pieces...but only because you made the suggestion of cinnamon..
Thanks a bunch.
From Saskatchewan
Mom would buy mixed chopped and dried fruits--papaya, pineapple, raisins, apricots, etc.--and this would go into the oatmeal cookie mix. It was HEAVENLY!
In my oatmeal cookies, I use golden raisins and pecans. I love that combo
The brown sugar info was totally new to me! All I’ve ever seen is a big brand name and store brand. There are better brands? 🤯
Muscovado sugar, dark or light is what Glen is mentioning. Muscovado is NOT THE brand name, just the type of processing. Look for it in most large grocery stores, Kroger,. Harris Teeter, H.E.B., Whole Foods, et all.
Dried apricots would be my go-to add in, chopped, of course. Have a blessed day 💖✝✈
I adore those tiny bowls Glen uses for measured ingredients.
Unsweetened applesauce makes mine spot on.
I’d have added a Tbsp of molasses just to help the flavour, because of the brown sugar disappointment.
Good tip about the food processor to whiz the old fashioned rolled oats.
Yum.
Dried cranberry and grated Orange rind might be good.
Molasses is what makes the cookie!
I have an oat recipe that ive used for years that works well. Every now and then I sub half the butter for peanut butter 😊
I LIKE Oatmeal/Chocolate Chip cookies! MY Mom used a bit of ground cinnamon in her oatmeal cookies. The idea of adding oat FLOUR is NEW to me.
Love cinnamon in oatmeal cookies. A few chocolate chips are a good add in too.
As an oat fanatic, those look delicious! I don't dare bake them because I would hoover them up in one sitting. I do like to add grated orange peel to mine; adds a nice little citrus-y taste :)
I made them today with chocolate chips. Delightful! Thanks for the recipe Glen.
Just made them, super good cookie. Fully approve this recipe and will do it again in the future.
Just taught my nephew’s their gr gr grandmother’s recipe for oatmeal cookies last night. Looking forward to trying yours!
We used to add butterscotch chips to
ours. Delicious!
And, yes, I am still here. Bless you for your work with Hope Air!
Try the Scottish Perkin, very similar but our family recipe uses treacle/molasses. It was a hand me down recipe and was perfect buttered with a cup of tea.
Looks like a good recipe Glenn. I love your channel. Thanks!
Brings back memories of when my Dad would make Oatmeal Scotchies. Swap out the raisings for butterscotch chips.
Oh man, I love oatmeal and raisin cookies. Been a good while since I've had one so I will definitely make some of these. Julie is so right about their flavour, oats have a rich complexity (why porridge is so simple yet so good)!
I like Cowboy Cookie, delicious!
That sounds like a really good cookie! I love oatmeal cookies!
Finally, an oatmeal cookie without cinnamon in it. That is so hard to find around here in the States. I love oatmeal cookies, but am allergic to cinnamon, so finding oatmeal cookies I can eat commercially is hard.
Just like the cookies for your flight, these would be better with chocolate chip cookies rather than raisins. I may be crazy, but I've always loved oatmeal chocolate chip cookies spiced like the last or not like these.
I've solved that! I use chocolate covered raisins in my oatmeal cookies (Raisinettes). Best of both worlds.
And for some reason I don’t like chocolate in oatmeal cookies. I’m not fond of raisins either. I love pecans.
Dried cherries would be nice too, the tart ones. Thanks for bringing us a crispy cookie Glen!
Tried this today, without the raisins, and thoroughly enjoyed. Added chocolate chips in some and they were good, too. Nice cookie
A couple of interesting variants:
1) 50/50 raisins and “Crasins” with some lavender to “tweak” the flavor.
2) substitute bacon bits for the raisins and whip up a glaze with maple syrup and confectioners sugar.
I didnt consider using oat flour, but I'm certainly going to try that. I enjoy walnuts and orange zest in my oatmeal rasin cookies quite a lot, and using Piloncillo from a local market as its the most affordable unrefined sugar you can find without compromising quality. I really like the way your recipe sounds and plan to try it out with my own add ins as soon as I can. Thank you for sharing this with us!
You are an excellent cook. My wife makes a recipe quite similar. Differences would be white raisins, and insulted cookie sheets. IMHO the insulated cookie sheets make ALL the difference between good and great. Krispy outside, chewy inside, no burnt bottoms. Hers are good enough to be requested by others all the time.
Those look really good. I will havbe to try them.
oatmeal cookies are not my favorites but a video like this makes me want to try some again
A crazy idea: Could oatmeal cookies be combined in a recipe for pretzels? What would it be like? Good? Terrible? Has it ever been done?
Oatmeal cookies are my favorite.
ditto!!!
I use the Quaker Oats recipe, but leave out the raisins. I add chocolate chips and dried cherries. I would add nuts too, if I weren't allergic. The chocolate chips and cherries are amazing with the oatmeal.
I add Cinnamon & raisins or chocolate chips or both 😊 I like how you used oat flour & oats to make it yummy.
I make great chewy oatmeal cookies. There's a box of vanilla instant pudding in the batter. I got the recipe from an advertisement in a magazine in the 1980's. It also had a choc chip recipe. Really good!
My best ever oatmeal recipe brings the raisins to a boil and immediately drains them. Add to your oatmeasl recipe, let it sit for a day and WOW!
I wonder if these would be a good homemade version of Hobnobs. Also learned that ice cream scoops are sized like shrimp or shotgun gauges. Shrimp are sized by # per pound. Shotgun gauges are # of balls of lead that fit the barrel from a pound of lead.
I don't really care for raisins but I love the chocolate chip idea and maybe pecans? Yummmm.
Glenn… give hope wings is such a great cause!!!! Love that you are part of this… and thank you for teaching me something new… the way ice cream scoops are sized!!! I never knew that…. According to google it’s scoops/wuart… and a #50 is 19 mls or a little over a tablespoon… I also highly recommend the aldi oatmeal/cranberry cookies if you like a chewy cookie…
I have an oatmeal raisin craisin cookie recipe that I was given my a 90+ year old lifer Navy cook. His cookie has (as per the description) craisins in it and I added golden raisins as well. It also has a healthy (ie: HEFTY) teaspoonful of cinnamon in it. I also doubled the vanilla.. Best cookie I’ve ever had. Whenever I make them for shared holidays or events, everyone raves about them and asks for the recipe.
Those do sound good, could you share the recipe please? If it's a secret I understand!
My favorite oatmeal cookies were right off the box of Quaker Oats, but with mini chocolate chips added (somehow better than regular size). The recipe has cinnamon in it, which also adds to the flavor.
Thank you for a great recipe and Julie's sweater is another beautiful garment. Does she knit?
I've always used the recipe from the Quaker Old Fashion Oats box. Nice and chewy.
I got curious, so I looked it up. The scoop number is the number of scoops to make 32 ounces (1 quart, or about 1 liter) of ice cream.
A #50 scoop is 5/8ths of an ounce, 4 teaspoons, 1 1/3rd tablespoons, or 19 ml. The bowl diameter is 1 5/8 inch, or 41 mm.
Learn something new from you every episode! I had no idea that anyone used those scoops for ice cream. We always called them portioners or dishers and they were used exclusively to ensure every dish of a meal had the same amount of X, Y and Z on it. This was in the 80s and for post-church dinners.
Disher is a reference to dishing up the ice cream.
My favorite oatmeal cookie recipe has 1 TBS molasses which makes it the best!😊
If you mix in some potato starch into the dry mixture you can improve the overall texture of the cookie. You can even get that crunchy interior crunchy shell type of texture if you get your timings right
Rogers Sugar was on strike (settled in February 2024), maybe that had an impact on your sourcing brown sugar? I love chewy, oatmeal cookies with spices like cinnamon but not raisins. I will try your recipe with those changes.
Crunchy oatmeal cookies taste fantastic as part of an ice cream sandwich.
I HATE raisins in things (though I do like to snack on them) except in oatmeal raisin cookies. I will try this recipe with my nephews when I'm watching them during the summer. Thank you!
Craisins, white chocolate chips and pecans. Or pecans, chocolate chips and Heath chips. I've made a similar recipe with so many different additions. My mom's recipe that we baked on Saturdays for lunch boxes all week. No electricity at first so we reverse engineered them. Started with all dry ingredients except oats and then cut in lard with pastry tool, then added wet, and then mixed in oats with a wooden spoon. 8 to 9 dozen and all gone before Friday night. Now, I'm going to try this recipe with the 2 kinds of oats. Comparison needed.😊
butterscotch chips are good, too
In the USA a #50 ice cream scoop is 1 Tablespoon size. Seems to be a standard scoop size for what I call a 'regular' size cookie.
I have had to make my own 'brown sugar' using white sugar and molasses in the past - where I now live in the EU, 'packable' brown sugar is not easily found in most supermarkets! (and neither is molasses, actually - but one jar of molasses can go a long way when making brown sugar) And loose brown sugar just does not work the same in most of my recipes! I have, in the last couple of years, found some good, packable, muscovado sugar in a (discount) supermarket that I really like and works pretty much the same as basic brown sugar I would buy in the US , so I have not needed to make my own for a while.
Delicious! I'd add the cinnamon and some walnuts. (Sorry, Glenn, I know you hate walnuts.)
I might be biased but Anzac biscuits done well are my favourite
ANZAC biscuits with coconut and golden syrup in them.
I'm picturing a homemade It's It ice cream sandwich right now.
Thank you
So if good brown sugar isn't made from molasses then how is the better version made?
"dad's cookies can't be beat."
Try Skor bits in oatmeal cookies!!! Yum
I am glad I wrote out my grocery list, then decided to blow off going today.
Maple would go good in it too
Oatmeal cookies used to be my all-time favorite ... until I discovered RANGER COOKIES *oh my* 🥰🥰🥰
What are ranger cookies??
@@karenmeraw4280 Oh, my sweet child ... they have it all: oatmeal, coconut, raisins, nuts, sometimes chocolate chips and/or puffed rice cereal. Basically everything you could ever possibly want in a cookie ALL IN ONE COOKIE. They're amazing! 😂😂😂
@asdisskagen6487 I've lived 35 years and had no idea these exist. Going to make these tomorrow.
@@karenmeraw4280 ❤
My favorite is Nut Butter and Oatmeal Cookie Sandwiches!
Two Cookies back to back w/as much Homemade Organic Nut Butter as you feel necessary.......
we prefer dried cranberries to raisins (tart plus dog safe) and a little grape nuts cereal to add some extra crunch.
A little bit of finely chopped maraschino cherry in an oatmeal cookie adds a really nice bright note. Be careful of the juice if you don't want a dingy pink-ish cookie.
Great video!! If I grind large flake oats-can I turn it into oat flour to use in this recipe? Thanks!
👍🏻
I remember Dad's oatmeal cookies from my childhood. I haven't heard of them in years. In fact, I think, although I'm not sure because I was so young, that there was a Dad's cookie factory in Oakland, CA, where my mother would get "broken cookies" cheap. They came in a brown paper bag. Edit: There was indeed a Dad's bakery in Oakland. I googled it.
I am going to give them a try. My mom made the best oatmeal raisin cookies but nobody has the the recipe. They were a cut cookie and they were not chewy but crisp not brittle.
👍
Fresh baked homemade oatmeal cookies are such a great treat. Highly underrated. I think the pre-packaged oatmeal cookies give it a bad name for the most part.
Dual texture crunchy/chewy is the best way to bake any oat cookie/biscuit, I like my Anzac biscuits baked that way but there's only a 30 second window during baking between too soft and chewy and hard as a brick tooth breaker so you've gotta watch them like a hawk.
I wish ice cream shops used something closer to a #50 scoop. A "single" scoop at most places is enough for two people and costs $7. Sometimes I just want a moderate amount of ice cream.
Would they make a good ice cream sandwich? Or too crunchy for that?
Never added flour last. Used mixer with flour and folded in oatmeal and raisins last. Can't beat quaker oats recipe on the inside of the lid of the round container. Cinnamon yes! Nutmeg no.
No Raisins for me but Chocolate Chips yes.!
We recently cruised with Princess Cruises and they had an oatmeal cookie that seemed to have quinoa in it. Maybe I was wrong? But they were also a perfect combination of crunchy and chewy. Been trying to look for a recipe, but haven’t found anything so far.
The sugar shortage was because of worker's striking at the Roger's/Lantic refineries. I assume this was filmed a little while ago.
That’s what I was thinking but thought the strike was only here in Vancouver. It finally ended in February but I think they’re still playing catch-up.
@@SandiBee-rf3te I think you're right. No doubt the Eastern branch was trying to fill the need while the Roger's workers were striking and it affected it all down the line.
It's only recently that stock has been back to normal and the limits of one per day have been removed.
The perfect oatmeal cookies are Anzac biscuits from New Zealand and Australia. I think I've seen an Edmonds cookbook from New Ealand in your collection - you'll find the recipe there.
I like those as well - we've made them here on the channel. The video is 3-4 years back in the catalogue.
can you (should you) soak your raisins in sugar water (orange juice or apple juice) for a little bit before adding - keeping them soft and juicy after baking?
I don't like cakey oatmeal cookies, took me years to find a recipe I love. I don't add oatflour, but toasted wheat germ to my oatmeal cookies, they become super crunchy, but not dry. And cinnamon, dried crans or cherry with toasted pecans. They are the one cookie I have to make 2 batches at xmas or everyone in the house is upset. One to give a way and one for the house.