I’ve heard it said that oatmeal is good for the heart so to see The American Heart Association label on the top of the Quaker Oats box wasn’t surprising.
When I’m home, I try to have oatmeal in the morning. A tiny bit of salt, a dab of sugar and lots of cinnamon.
Now, I wonder if eating oatmeal cookies is as healthy as having oatmeal in the morning. I guess it would depend on how many cookies I eat.
Being curious, I decided to try the cookie recipe on the Quaker Oats box to see if it stood the test of my palate (which I’ve been told is not very discriminating).
Ingredients:
1 stick of butter, softened
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups Quaker Oats
I left out the raisins in my ingredients, used butter instead of margarine and added a wee bit more cinnamon because I’m a big fan of cinnamon. I also cut the recipe in half so the ingredients above are halved already.
Heat the oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
Beat butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until creamy.
Add the egg and vanilla. Beat well again.
Your batter should look like the one below.
