There’s nothing quite like a homemade cookie fresh out of the oven. With a crispy bottom, a golden brown color, with each bite filled with gooey chocolate chips and a crunch of oaty goodness.
Everyone jokes about oatmeal raisin cookies. We’ve all seen the memes where a kid thinks they’re getting a chocolate chip cookie but it’s actually an oatmeal raisin cookie. While the memes are certainly hilarious, the fact is that an oatmeal cookie can be delicious, and they add some beneficial fiber to your diet.
Anytime a sweet treat can pull double-duty and actually offer some nutrition, you know it’s a good thing. But what if you have all of your ingredients out and discover that you don’t have brown sugar in the pantry? Don’t despair. You can make it work.This is why we have got a sweet treat for you! Everyone deserves a cookie recipe that is easy to follow, with delicious cookies to enjoy afterwards.
What is even better is that our recipe can be made with lots of ingredients that you can find right at home, to save you a trip to the store!
We have created an oatmeal cookie recipe without the brown sugar, for perfectly light, fluffy and sweet cookies that all can enjoy. Just add raisins to make this a great raisin cookierecipe. Oatmeal raisin is a favorite around my house. You can even add chocolate chip to your oatmealcookie recipe. There is no end to what you can do with this oatmealraisin cookie
And since they’re made with oats, we don’t feel as guilty eating one…or two…okay maybe three! So if you want to make these oatmeal cookies for yourself, follow this handy guide.
Ingredients to Make Oatmeal Cookies
To make oatmeal cookies, there are a few essential ingredients that you will need. These include:
These are pretty much all things that you probably have handy in your kitchen or pantry ready to go. However, most people believe that cookies are best made with brown sugar.
Whilst this may be down to personal preference, you do not actually require brown sugar to make your oatmeal cookies taste good. You can use white sugar, and they will turn out just fine, and just as delicious.
White Sugar or Brown Sugar in Cookies?
For the purpose of this recipe, we have omitted the brown sugar. This results in delicious, tasty, and oaty cookies that are incredibly sweet, soft and a little chewy for a scrumptious bite.This is because we have used white sugar instead of brown, which gives that extra fluffiness, and helps them to rise, unlike brown sugar! However, these cookies look much lighter in color, and even taste lighter than ones made with brown sugar. This is largely due to the fact that brown sugar has more molasses, which is where it gets its richer flavor, and darker coloring.
With white sugar, you will have a more softer flavor, but you can add in chips for a little more taste and sweetness, which is what we prefer!
Optional Ingredients for Oatmeal Cookies
The good thing about making your own baked goods is that you can throw in whatever mix-ins that you prefer.
With this recipe for oatmeal cookies, you can add your own flavorings to suit your desires such as raisins, chocolate chips, white chocolate, dark chocolate, walnuts, toasted pecans, or even pretzel pieces. The choice is entirely yours, or you could experiment with a few different mix-ins, and make a few batches of oatmeal cookies to find your favorite!
The only thing you have to remember is that whichever you choose to use, just use one cup of mix-ins for this recipe.
How to Make Oatmeal Cookie Dough
It is actually really simple to make an oatmeal cookie dough. All you need is to combine all of the dry ingredients in one mixing bowl, and mix the butter and sugar in another bowl.
That being said, you will need to keep in mind that you want a mixture that is light, fluffy and airy, with a light yellow color. This will give you the perfect oatmeal cookies, so make sure that you are mixing your ingredients super thoroughly, and only mix in the eggs one by one for a fluffy dough mixture. To create the perfect oatmeal cookie dough, you will then need to combine the wet and dry ingredients in the same bowl, mixing until completely combined, and there is no dry flour left lying around.Once you have a perfectly formed dough, you can mix in the optional ingredients such as raisins or chocolate chips. Combine these by folding them into your dough gently.
With this done, you will have the best cookie dough, ready to be formed into balls and baked into cookies! If you prefer more chewy cookies rather than crispy, then we recommend that you chill your cookie dough in the freezer for around 8-10 minutes before you bake them, as this will help them become firm and will create thicker feeling cookies when you bite into them later!
Storing Homemade Cookies
If you want to enjoy your oatmeal cookies for longer, then you will need to know exactly how to store them.
We recommend using an airtight container to help them last longer. Additionally, you may want to freeze the cookies in a container such as this, which will keep them fresher for up to 3 months!
If you prefer homemade cookies fresh out of the oven, then why not freeze the cookie dough, and then you can make them whenever you fancy some!
All you have to do is leave the cookie dough to defrost in your refrigerator overnight, and you can make fresh cookies in the morning. With the defrosted dough, all you have to do then is form it into dough balls, and place on a cookie baking sheet, and bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes and viola! Freshly baked oatmeal cookies on demand!
How to Make Oatmeal Cookies Without Brown Sugar
If you want to make these delicious and tasty cookies for yourself, then simply follow our easy step by step guide of how to make oatmeal cookies without brown sugar.
The first and a very important step is to gather all of your ingredients, and preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. For this recipe to work, you are going to need 3 cups of old fashioned oats such as Quaker Old Fashioned Rolled Oats, along with 1 cup of white sugar, 1 stick of unsalted butter, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, ½ a teaspoon of salt, ½ a cup of shortening, and 1 cup of raisins or chocolate chips depending on what you prefer.
Once you have all of your ingredients, you can start preparing the cookie dough. To do this, you will need to mix the flour together with the baking soda, cinnamon, salt and oats in a medium or large mixing bowl.Then, you will need to grab another mixing bowl, and beat together the butter, sugar and shortening until your mixture is fluffy, airy and light. Then, you can add in the eggs, but only one at a time, and remember to blend these thoroughly with the mixture before adding another. Next, add in your vanilla extract.The next step is to mix all of the dry ingredients slowly with the creamy butter mixture until you have a good dough texture. Once this is achieved, you can add in your raisins or chocolate chips, whichever you prefer, and fold them in.Using either your hands to form cookie dough balls, or a cookie scooper, drop the cookie dough balls onto a cookie baking sheet.
Then, you can place the cookies into the oven, and bake for around 10 minutes until you see the oatmeal cookies turn a golden brown color.
After this, you may remove the cookies from the oven, and leave to rest for a few minutes, before transferring them to a wire cooling rack. Serve up and enjoy!
Oatmeal Cookies Without Brown Sugar
Make oatmeal cookies without the brown sugar with this quick and easy recipe.
1cupof either raisin, walnuts or chocolate chips (your choice)
Instructions
First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
Then, mix in the flour, baking soda, salt, oats and cinnamon in a medium sized mixing bowl until combined.
With another mixing bowl, beat together the butter, shortening, and sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.
Then, add the eggs one at a time, mixing completely together, and add in the vanilla extract.
Next, mix the dry ingredients with the creamy butter mixture until you have a dough.
Then, you can fold in the chocolate chips/raisins etc into the dough.
Either use your hands to make rounded balls of dough, or a cookie scooper to add cookies to a lined cookie baking sheet.
Finally, place the cookie sheet in the oven for around 10 minutes, until the cookies are golden brown in color. Remove from the oven, and leave to rest for 2 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
Cassie brings decades of experience to the Kitchen Community. She is a noted chef and avid gardener. Her new book "Healthy Eating Through the Garden" will be released shortly. When not writing or speaking about food and gardens Cassie can be found puttering around farmer's markets and greenhouses looking for the next great idea.
