Tuesday Dinners

Oatmeal Cookies

For when you like people… but not that much

⏲️ Prep Time
10 minutes

⏲️ Cook Time
10 Min.

🍴 Makes
12

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • As much vanilla extract as you want
  • 1 cup flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 1/2 cup old fashioned oats

Directions

  1. Cream butter and sugar
  2. Add egg and vanilla, mix
  3. Add salt and flour, mix
  4. Add oats and mix
  5. Create a dozen scoops of dough and place on cookie sheet
  6. Bake in 350 degree oven for 12-15 minutes

Step by Step Directions

Cream your butter and sugar. That’s just a fancy way of saying combine them until they share a common consistency (you can’t tell one used to be sugar and one used to be butter).

Pro tip: Make sure your butter is room temperature, it makes it annoying because you can’t spontaneously make cookies, but it makes it so much better.

Add in your vanilla and egg. This is in my opinion when it looks the grossest, but you shouldn’t care about that because you’re the one making oatmeal cookies.

Add the rest of your ingredients that don’t have oat in the name. Could you add them all at once? Probably, I don’t think it would make that much of a difference. Up to you.

Now comes the oats, this is your last chance to make non-oatmeal cookies. No? Alright, but if you’re going to add something/anything else then this is also the time to do it. Mix it all together.

Scoop out the dough into balls and place them evenly on a cookie sheet. I like to use a teaspoon (like the one you eat with) to get a roughly consistent size and shape.

This recipe should make a perfect dozen. And by perfect I mean make a dozen cookies and then eat whatever leftover dough you have so that it fits “perfectly”.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 12-15 minutes, until they have flattened and browned. Enjoy

Variations

  • For the love of whatever is holy and you believe in: add something, chocolate chips, M&Ms, raisins, cinnamon, just something
  • You can substitute some peanut butter if you remove some regular butter and some flour
  • Experiment with different shapes (balls, squares, etc.)

Unsolicited Feedback

  • LO: I didn’t know wartime rations had begun, this is incredibly bland.
  • AQ: Good use of oatmeal, almost as good as regular oatmeal.
  • MK: I’m glad you made cookies, don’t get me wrong, but why did you make these cookies?