Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Starr and I were talking cookies a couple weeks ago which sparked a thought about oatmeal raisin cookies with grated carrots. Last week, I bought a carrot and adapted an untried recipe. The cookies are not cute, but we both liked them very much. Maybe too much.
Original recipe from the Moosewood Restaurant New Classics
Wholesome Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Yield 12 large cookies
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1 large egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 cup oat bran
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup raisinsPreheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil two cookie sheets.
In a large bowl, cream together the brown sugar, granulated sugar, and butter with an electric mixeer or by hand until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and mix until well combined.
In a separate bowl, combine the oats, flour, oat bran, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add to the butter mixture and stir just until blended. Mix in the raisins.
Drop the dough in scant 1/4-cup mounds about three inches apart and flatten slightly with moistened fingers. Each sheet will hold six cookies. Bake for 15 minutes, until golden and just firm to the touch. When the cookies first come out of the oven, they’re soft and a little delicate, so carefully transfer them to racks. Cool for 15 minutes.
My additions and changes:
I thought I had oat bran in the house, but I was wrong so I used about a third cup of All-Bran cereal (I did not soak it, I just chucked it in dry) and a couple tablespoons of ground flax seed instead. I grated a large carrot and added most of it to the mix with the raisins. I didn’t measure the raisins either and think I was closer to a whole cup.
Starr mentions how much she loves them with each cookie…or half cookie…eaten. We will be making these again. Although, not too often!!
these sound great.. different, but still good!
Oh, they were good! My seriously picky daughter simply loved them…they are all gone now…
Yep, you gotta bury those veggies in the cookies. Jerry Seinfeld’s broad is always talking about this.
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Absolutely!!!
Mmm. Reminds me of being a kid!
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Doesn’t it!? Congrats on your news today! So awesome!!
Now with that cereal in there…do they make you toot?
Toot?!? I don’t know what you mean. We are girls in this house…tooting is not something that happens around here!! : ) …and no.