A Nerd Reviews

My neighbors brought me a freezer bag full of homemade cookie dough tubes last night. Two chocolate chip tubes and two oatmeal cookie tubes each wrapped in wax paper with the baking instructions on the outside.

I am so wowed.  It was such a thoughtful thing to do.  The packaging made it easy for me to freeze the dough and save it for a day I might have company, which then sets me up to easily invite my neighbors over for coffee and cookies. 

Wonderful wonderful idea, and, in her honor, I posted an oatmeal cookie recipe below. 

Oatmeal Walnut Raisin Cookies Ingredients

1 1/4 cups Butter

1 teaspoon Baking soda 

3/4 cup Brown sugar

1 teaspoon Salt 

1/2 cup Sugar

1 teaspoon Cinnamon 

1 Egg

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg 

1 teaspoon Vanilla

3 cups Oats quick or old-fashioned

1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour

1 cup Raisins1/4 cup Chopped Toasted Walnuts 

Instructions for Oatmeal Walnut Raisin CookiesPreheat oven to 375 degrees. 

Beat butter and sugars until uniformly creamy in color. Beat in egg and vanilla. Separately, sift together the flour, baking soda and spices and then mix in the dry ingredients.  Stir in oats and raisins.  

Using a tablespoon, or small ice cream scoop, drop by rounded blobs onto ungreased cookie sheets (I like using wax paper as it makes it easier to slide the cookies onto a drying rack, but there is enough butter in these cookies to make it easy enough to get them off a cookie sheet without greasing it first). 

Bake for 8-9 minutes if you like chewy cookies and 10-11 minutes for crunchy cookies. 

Once removed from the oven, let stand on the cookie sheet for approximately 1 minute before moving to a wire rack. 

Store tightly and covered…or do what my marvelous neighbors did and pack tightly and freeze for later consumption.