Picturing Better Than Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Here's the recipe for my Better Than Grandma's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies in process. (I opted not to sugar the dough balls before baking.)

Cream the creamables. Butter and dark brown sugar.

Combine the wet ingredients. Egg, vanilla, and milk

Add the wet ingredients to the cremables. Spin, spin, spin.

Combine the dry ingredients. I saw these Sunsweet jumbo red raisins and gave them a try. They certainly are plump and tasty!

Add the dry ingredients to the combined creamables and wet ingredients.

Scoop and bake the cookies. For a crispier exterior, sugar the dough balls before baking.

Comments

[Mellisa W.]

I just baked these, they are very good. However, DH despises raisins. Can you come up with an equally good cookie with our raisins?

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Hi, Melissa. Oh no...a raisin hater? I think you could replace the raisins in this recipe with any other kind of dried fruit: raisins, cherries, dates, etc. Or you could just replace the fruit with your favorite kind of chip: chocolate, white chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, etc.

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

One question, though, Melissa. What does "DH" stand for? The first thing I thought of was "designated hitter," but that didn't make much sense. Then I thought "dumb husband," which made more sense. Just wondering... :-)