Raisin Oatmeal Cookies Source: Maida Heatter's Best Dessert Book Ever (Andrews & McMeel Publishing, 1997 ed.) , pg. 239 . Taking advantage of a snow day to do a long overdue post! Oatmeal raisin cookies are a favorite at our house - our go-to recipe is the one on the Quaker Oats box. I came across this recipe from Maida and thought I would give it a try. It turns out that it is a bit different from the Quaker Oats recipe. There is no flour in this one and it contains peanut butter. They are delicious but quite different from the other. These cookies are very soft, chewy and wonderful. I used a large ice-cream scoop to make the cookies and they turned out really big. A few of them ran together during the baking process but they are easy to cut apart as soon as they come out of the oven. The only raisins I had in the pantry were golden raisins and I used those. I think golden raisins have a fainter flavor than the dark ones but they are fine here. I used...
Baking my way through Maida Heatter's recipes