Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

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Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Make a batch and watch them disappear

The crispness of the cookie is what makes this recipe a keeper.

What says homemade, old fashioned, and heavenly more than oatmeal raisin cookies? We’ve perfected a recipe that we think you’ll love. It uses gluten-free flour for crispiness and just the right amount of fat to make them chewy but they won’t fall apart when you eat them. These are the cookies you can bring to your neighbors to cheer them up or to your mom on Mother’s Day.

The cookie dough is rolled into balls and pressed flat with the bottom of a glass.

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Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Yield: 3 dozen

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened

• 1 cup packed brown sugar

• 1 cup white sugar 

• 2 eggs

• 1  teaspoons vanilla extract

• 1 1/2 cups hazelnut flour

• 1 cup oat flour

• ¾ teaspoon Xanthan gum powder

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 

• 1 teaspoon baking soda 

• 1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon 

• ½ teaspoon fresh nutmeg 

• 3 cups quick-cooking oats 

• 1 cup raisins

Note: You can make this with all-purpose flour, use 2 cups and omit the Xanthan gum

Directions

• Step 1: In a medium bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, xantham gum, nutmeg, and cinnamon, whisk very very well; stir into the creamed mixture. Mix in oats and raisins. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour.



• Step 2: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets. Roll the dough into (a little smaller than a ping pong ball) balls, and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass so they lay about 1 cm tall. I weigh out 25g balls with a scale. 15 g makes for a good mini cookie. This is a foolproof method! 

• Step 3: Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in a preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

These cookies would be fun to make with kids as they would love rolling the dough into balls and flattening them out.

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Photos by Mary Van Hiel

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