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Simple Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

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Here's a simple Oatmeal Cookie recipe that's quick to make and can easily be altered to your tastes. It really is the BEST Oatmeal Cookie recipe around!

This is an easy recipe for kids to make. You just melt the butter and let them add and mix everything else. There's no mixer involved. Just get out your big bowl and big wooden spoon and let them go to it!

simple oatmeal cookies with raisins

Let the kids decide what to add. They can even separate the dough into a several batches and add different things to each batch. Even some cocoa would be interesting.

Try adding chocolate chips, or raisins, or nuts, or M&M's. This easy oatmeal cookie recipe is such a very versatile recipe. Change the flavoring from vanilla to almond to rum and again - a different cookie.

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Ingredients:

1 3/4 cups butter, melted
5 cups old fashioned oats
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
3 eggs
1 tsp. flavoring (see above)
1 cup chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, etc.

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375° F.
Put oats into large mixing bowl. Add melted butter and stir.
Add sugar and mix.
Mix baking powder and flour together and blend into oat mixture.
Mix flavoring and eggs together and blend into oat mixture.
Add chips and/or nuts/raisins and mix.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake about 15 minutes or until golden.

Hints:

Use either all-purpose or whole wheat flour

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