Everything Oatmeal Cookies

It was my baby brother's birthday this month and he initially wanted me to make cake pops.  So of course I asked my sister-in-law what type of cake I should make but she suggested I make him cookies instead.  Apparently he had liked the oatmeal cookies that I made for my sister-in-law post-baby last month and had asked her to make him cookies recently.  She has no time to bake cookies with a new baby and suggested I do it for him instead haha.  Since I am such a great big sister, I made these Everything Oatmeal Cookies because I figured he likes almost everything!  I added dried cranberries, chocolate chips and walnuts in these oatmeal cookies.  I even included plain greek yogurt just because I have been including it in all my baked goods lately.  Overall I think these Everything Oatmeal Cookies were awesome.  I think my brother and sister-in-law both scarfed up these cookies quickly too LOL!  

Buddy wanted some cookies too...but I told him they were for his Uncle.  He looks a little disappointed, but I told him to wait until his 11th birthday next month!  Hopefully he will be feeling better by then, lately he hasn't been doing well on his thyroid meds so currently he is on a short trial without the meds to see if there's a change and we'll go from there...sigh...I clearly love my dogs :)

 

Everything Oatmeal Cookies

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Ingredients

½ cup or 1 stick butter, room temperature

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

1 tablespoon plain greek yogurt

1 teaspoon vanilla

¾ cup whole wheat flour (or all-purpose flour)

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon cinnamon

¼ teaspoon salt

1/3 cup dried cranberries

1/3 cup chocolate chips

1 ½ cup oats

½ cup walnuts, chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a stand mixer, beat together butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until creamy.  

Next, beat in egg, vanilla and yogurt.  

In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.

Slowly, stir flour mixture into butter mixture.

Next, stir in oats, dried cranberries, and walnuts.

Scoop cookies by teaspoon onto baking sheet about 2 inches apart.   (You can make them bigger but I preferred them to be bite-sized.)

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.  

The cookies will be golden at the edges with a soft center.  Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.

Oatmeal Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

I made these Oatmeal Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies last week for our charity bake sale at work.  (I also made Peanut Butter and Banana Dog Treats too which sold out first!)  I was happy that all my baked goods were sold out during the bake sale.  These Oatmeal Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies were delicious.  I love the taste of the cinnamon chips in these cookies and adding chocolate chips and craisins made the cookies even more awesome!  I mostly followed the recipe that was on the back of the Hershey's Cinnamon Chips bag, but of course I changed it up a bit to my taste.  These cookies will be great to share during the holidays, enjoy!

Oatmeal Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Ingredients

1 ½ cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 ½ cups quick-cooking oats

1 cup butter, softened (2 sticks of butter)

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1/3 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup cinnamon chips

1 cup chocolate chips

½ cup dried cranberries (I used Craisins.)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a stand mixer, beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until creamy.

Add in eggs one at a time and vanilla.

In a bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda.   Slowly add to butter mixture, beating well.

Stir in oats, cinnamon chips, chocolate chips and dried cranberries.

Drop by heaping tablespoons onto ungreased baking sheets.  Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.

Allow to cool for 1 minute on baking sheets.

Place cookies on wire cooling racks.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.