Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These old-fashioned oatmeal chocolate chip cookies have crisp edges, chewy middles, and just enough raisins to balance all that chocolate.
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Cookie Sheets
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 2 scant cups flour (see notes above)
- 2 cups old-fashioned oatmeal
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp hot water
- 1 12 ounce package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup raisins
Instructions
- Set oven temperature to 375 degrees.
- Put the dry ingredients in a bowl: Flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, white sugar, baking soda, salt and stir together.
- Mix in the shortening, vanilla, eggs, and hot water. The mixture will be thick and you will be mushing it together more than stirring.
- Add the chocolate chips and raisins. You might have to use your hands to gently incorporate all the ingredients.
- Roll into golf ball sized balls and place on an uncreased cookie sheet. Give them room to spread out.
- Bake at 375 for 10 - 13 minutes. Every oven is different but they were perfect at 12 minutes for me. You want them to be golden brown on top and on the edges.
- Let cool for about a minute and then move to a wire rack.
