Three-Minute Oatmeal Cookies
Submitted by jen
These no-fuss oatmeal raisin cookies come together in minutes with pantry staples. Plump raisins, hearty oats, and a crispy-chewy bite make them vanish from the cookie jar fast.
YIELD
1 batchPREP
5 minCOOK
10 minREADY
15 minSome cookies demand stand mixers, chilled dough, and a whole afternoon. These are not those cookies.
Three-Minute Oatmeal Cookies are the kind of recipe your grandmother kept tucked in her recipe box because they just work. While the raisins plump up in boiling water, you mix everything else together. By the time they’re stirred in, you’re ready to scoop and bake.
The result? Hearty, golden oat cookies with chewy pockets of sweet raisin in every bite. They’re old-school simple and completely satisfying.
Pro Tips
- Don’t skip soaking the raisins. That quick hot water bath makes them juicy and soft instead of dry little pebbles
- Use quick-cooking oats, not instant. Instant oats will turn to mush, and you want that textured, chewy bite
- Drop the dough in rounded teaspoonfuls and leave space between them since they spread as they bake
- Pull them out when the edges are golden but the centers still look slightly underdone. They firm up as they cool
Ingredients
Directions
Pour boiling water over raisins, let stand until rest is prepared.
Drop by teaspoonful and bake in hot oven.
Note: Combine other ingredients while raisins soak.
Stir in raisins.
Hot oven is 350 - 400℉ (200℃).
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