Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

(from CollinsRecipes’s recipe box)

Categories: Dessert

Ingredients

  • 3 cups rolled oats
  • 1/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 1 cup water
  • 1.5 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup apple butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground cloves

Directions

  1. Heat oven 375*F. Toast nuts. Combine raisins with water in saucepan. Simmer on low heat until raisins are plumped. (10 mins)

  2. Beat sugar, apple butter, eggs, oil, and vanilla in mixing bowl until fluffy (5 mins)

  3. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in another bowl.

  4. Stir the flour mixture into the apple butter mixture with spoon.

  5. Stir in the reserved oats, nuts and raisins, mix well.

  6. Drop the dough by rounded teaspoons, about 2 inches apart. Bake until lightly browned (8 to 10 mins)

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