ICED OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES
If you love to cook with oatmeal, you will love this Old Fashioned Oatmeal Pie. It’s a classic for a reason and has been around for a very long time.
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❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
These Old Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are delicious! If you love oatmeal cookies these are for you. These are great for any gathering and the icing is honestly what makes them even better. If you have followed our site for any amount of time you know we love these wonderful Old Fashioned recipes. So many of our recipes are ones your grandmother made!
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- All Purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Ground Cinnamon
- Salt
- Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
- Shortening (I use Crisco)
- Granulated Sugar
- Brown Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla Extract
- Raisins
Glaze Ingredients:
- Powdered Sugar
- Milk
SWAPS
These cookies have a powdered sugar glaze and it really is delicious, it just sinks into the cookie some and keeps them nice and moist. You could also put cream cheese frosting on these cookies or leave the frosting off altogether. You can also leave the raisins out.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
These cookies are really pretty easy to make, just get all of our ingredients organized before you start to make it even more simple.
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and rolled oats in a large mixing bowl.
Step 2
Cut in shortening, mixing until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Step 3
In a smaller, using a mixer, cream together the white sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract.
Step 4
Add this to the flour mixture and mix well with mixer. Fold in raisins with a spoon. Make balls about the size of a small walnut and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Step 5
I use the bottom of a drinking glass dipped in sugar to mash the cookies out flat.
Step 6
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 4 dozen.
⭐TIP
Cookies should come out of the oven a little undercooked. This keeps them from getting hard. The icing on these oatmeal cookies really keeps them moist.
RECIPE VARIATIONS
If you like oatmeal cookies, you may also love these delicious Cranberry Coconut Oatmeal Cookies. They are perfect for the holiday season. You may also love these Maple Oatmeal Cookies; they are a wonderful treat!
❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
We keep them in an airtight container in a cool place.
Absolutely! You can leave them out and you will still love them!
STORING
We store these in an airtight container and just put them in a cool place. They will keep well that way.
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SERVING SIZE
This recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies depending on the size that you make them.
Iced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
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Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup shortening I used Crisco
- 1 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup raisins
Glaze Ingredients:
- 2 cups confectionery sugar
- 5 to 6 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and rolled oats in a large mixing bowl.
- Cut in shortening, mixing until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- In a smaller, using a mixer, cream together the white sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract.
- Add this to the flour mixture and mix well with mixer. Fold in raisins with a spoon. Make balls about the size of a small walnut and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
- I use the bottom of a drinking glass dipped in sugar to mash the cookies out flat.
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes about 4 dozen.
Glaze Instructions:
- Whisk together and dip tops of cooled cookies in frosting. You can add more milk or sugar until you reach the consistency you like for frosting.
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A really, really good cookie. I made them large (50 grams) and no icing. Not to sweet. The shortening works so much better than butter in this cookie. I made no adjustments to anything other than no icing.
Wonderful
Breakfast of champions
YAY Wanda! So glad to hear this!
The description says 10 servings. How many cookies in a serving?
The recipe says it makes about 4 dozen cookies, so that would be almost 5 cookies in a serving.
Before I make these can butter be used instead of shortening? I’m going to add mini chocolate chips instead of one of my most disliked raisins.
You can always try it, it will probably be okay.
ÈXCEPTIONAL COOKIE. I AM 78, AND HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A GOOD OATMEAL, RAISIN COOKIE RECIPE ALL MY LIFE, YOUR RECIPE IS A TEN +! EVERYONE LOVES THEM. WE ALL THANK YOU.
SINCERELY, GINGER.
P.S. THANKS AGAIN.
You are so welcome Ginger! We are so thrilled to hear these were a hit! We love them too.
Loving everything about this recipe! My family gobbled them up! I substituted butter for shortening and I also added chopped walnuts. delish!
Can you use Crain berries instead of raisins?
I would think you could use craisins, but whole cranberries. We have a cranberry oatmeal cookie on the website.
Can I use butter in place of the Crisco?
I haven’t made them using butter in the place of crisco, you’re welcome to give it a try!
Best ever oatmeal recipe. 10 plus.
These are some of the BEST cookies I’ve ever had/made. My husband loved them so much I’m making them for his office. Thanks for the delicious recipe.
That’s wonderful! We’re so glad they were a hit for you and your husband!
I made these and they were very crumbly. Hard to keep in a ball. What did I do wrong.
I have never had that happen but I would assume not enough moisture to hold them together. The consistency of your flour may be different.
Looks amazing and adding to my Christmas cookie recipes .
Your recipes always work out:)
Would chocolate chips be a good addition?
I think that would be delicious!
The ONLY criticism I could ever come up with (not that I want to)is:
That I can’t give 10 stars to this recipe! Absolutely delicious!
Didn’t modify anything, never have to with any of your recipes actually! Thank you, once again!
Thrilled you loved these cookies!! Thank you so much for the kind comment!
This looks very good please send me the website thank you
Why would I send you the website Christine.. You are on it.
I can relate. sounds like a question I might have asked before
retirement.
p.s. I love your recipes