Paula’s Loaded Oatmeal Cookies

Based on 13 reviews

The brown butter icing takes these cookies to the next level.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cup quick-cooking oatmeal
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 cup raisins
1 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Brown Butter Icing
1/2 cup butter
3 cups sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 to 4 tablespoons of water

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease one or more cookie sheets. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar in a bowl until fluffy. Add eggs and beat until mixture is light in color. Add buttermilk. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice; stir into creamed mixture. Fold in oatmeal, raisins, walnuts, and vanilla, blending well. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Drizzle with Brown Butter Icing.

Brown Butter Icing

In a small saucepan heat 1/2 cup butter over medium heat until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in 3 cups sifted powdered sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir in enough water (3 to 4 tablespoons) to make an icing of drizzling consistency. Drizzle on warm cookies.

Recipes courtesy Paula Deen

Servings: About 5 dozen cookies
Prep Time: 20 min
Cook Time: 20 min
Difficulty: Easy

Show: Paula's Home Cooking/Just Desserts cookbook

Ratings for this Entry:

Submitted on July 7, 2010

You can also use dried Cranberries instead of raisins, they make cookies taste great!.............

Submitted on March 3, 2010

I'm the baker of the house, and when I made these, I just loved them.Your cookies just bumped my most favorite off the top of the list and replaced it with the loaded oatmeal cookies.Absolutely delicious!

Submitted on January 1, 2010

Best Oatmeal Cookies I ever ate! Delicious. Everyone loves them.

Submitted on January 1, 2010

how do you know buttermilk out of 2%milk? or how will it change this receipe?

Submitted on December 12, 2009

These are the BEST oatmeal cookies. I have treasured this recipe for a couple of years now, and keep coming back to it. Well worth the calories!! The Brown Butter Icing is a must!

Submitted on December 12, 2009

These cookies are truly awesome! My 12 year old daughter is a very picky eater and doesn't even like oatmeal, but she tried these and her eyes lit up! She said they were the best cookies she has EVER had. She enjoyed doing the drizzle and we substituted chocolate chips for the raisins. Paula, you have done it again!

Submitted on November 11, 2009

Truly the best oatmeal cookies ever! Made these for Christmas last year, and I've had people asking me all year long if I'm making them again this year. Absolutely amazing cookies.

Submitted on November 11, 2009

this is the best oatmeal cookie ever!! everyone that tried them said the same thing,"these are good", then after about a few seconds they said,"these are really good"!!the spices seem to take a second or two to hit your taste buds..the frosting is certainly the added treat!! everyone wants me to make them over and over..

Submitted on June 6, 2009

My son loves oatmeal cookies but he has a nut allergy. Can these cookies be made without the nuts and taste just as great?

Submitted on June 6, 2009

Everytime I make this my family and friends rave about them. First oatmeal cookie I have really liked.

Submitted on May 5, 2009

The best oatmeal cookie ever!

Submitted on May 5, 2009

As a military wife I send alittle piece of home to my husband as often as I can. This recipe certainly brought back wonderful memories. My husband and buddies have requested that I send more.

Submitted on December 12, 2008

It has taken me years to find the oatmeal cookie recipe that was as good as my Mom's. With all the spices blending together in this cookie, the smell of them baking during the Holidays, and the amount of compliments I got when I shared them with the "boys" in the shop, well, it brought back a lot of memories that I have cherished over many years of being without my Mom. Thank you...and Merry Christmas. Jean