The Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Let's be honest here. With all this sweet makin' it's hard to find people to give all these sweets too! However, there is one sweet I never give away.....and that sweet would be the fantastic, oatmeal raisin cookie. I have tried so many recipes for this cookie, but only one stood on top. One called my name....and one...was fail proof. I bring to you: the best oatmeal raisin cookie recipe ever.

Now let's get this straight. An oatmeal raisin cookie needs to be chewy (check!). But also, it needs to have those wonderful crisp edges (check!!). Oh, and one last thing, people need to love it! Let's just say I tested my awesome math class on these bad boys. I told them to honestly rate them 1-10. 1 being you wouldn't give it to your worst enemy, and 10 being the best oatmeal raisin cookies you have ever tasted. I gave them to about 7 or 8 people and guess what every single score was......these cookies got a perfect 10!! 

This was very exciting, especially since I have never gotten perfect 10s across the board in my ever changing testing panel! I've gotten pretty close, but not quite perfect. 

Test them yourself!! You know you want to!!

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Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Yield: 36 Cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups All-Purpose Flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Salt

1 cup Unsalted Butter (softened to room temp)

1 cup Sugar

1 cup Brown Sugar (packed)

2 Eggs (large)

2 tsp Vanilla

3 cups Oats (not instant)

1 1/2 cups Raisins (soaked in warm water for 10 min for more flavor, then drain and pat dry)

Method:

1) Preheat oven to 350° and line cookie sheets with parchment paper

2) Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together and set aside

3) Cream butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla until fluffy and lighter in color

4) Gently stir dry mixture into wet mixture until no flour is showing (do not overmix!!)

5) Gently stir in the oats and raisins

6) Scoop 2 Tbl of dough (or a #40 cookie scoop) onto the parchment paper about 2" apart

7) Bake about 9-11 minutes (watch very carefully, mine were finished at 9min)

****If baking different batches of cookies on the same baking sheet, make sure it is cool before you put the dough on it or they will be a flat mess!! Simply remove the parchment paper, and run it in the sink with cool water until the sheet is cool, dry it, and put back on the parchment paper****

8) Cool on a cookie sheet

9) Enjoy and share with the world!! (Or eat them all to yourself!!)

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( Recipe adapted from http://dessert.food.com/recipe/oatmeal-raisin-cookies-35813 )