Today's recipe comes from the blog Jamie Cooks It Up. This recipe was adapted from her Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies. Jamie's blog is pretty awesome, jump on over there and check it out.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
So to start, toss your butter and sugars into your mixing bowl then beat for a few minutes...
...until everything has lightened and starts to look like this:
To be honest, this is my favorite part and always tastes good. I have try my hardest not to eat this.
Ok, maybe I try just a little.
Next add your vanilla and eggs, and beat again for 3 minutes.
Meanwhile, you mix together your dry ingredients. You have time.
Next add your dry ingredients to the rest of the mixture. I usually add in bit by bit (like the photo) since the oatmeal mixture has a tendency to be so thick that the mixer starts to have a hard time. If your mixer starts bouncing or struggling, make it stop and stir it by hand.
Don't break your mixer, that would be sad :(
Add the chocolate chips and the butterscotch chips.
If your mixer can handle this, you can use your mixer.
Mine does not, and I actually don't like using the mixer because I feel like it starts to break up the chips and smaller pieces of chocolate are in your batter.
That bothers me, so I stir everything by hand.
Spoon (or use a cookie scoop) and drop into rounded spoonfuls onto your baking sheet. You can also shape into balls, this batter holds a nice shape when baking.
Tip: Use some sort of silicone mat or parchment paper for these cookies. Chips that have a lot of sugar in them (pretty much everything except for chocolate) have a tendency to really stick.
Trust me, it's no fun figuring it out the hard way!
The original recipe calls for baking them for 8 minutes, and to not over bake.
My oven wasn't baking them that quickly, so I was baking them for 10 minutes or so.
Over baking will take a way the nice chewiness of the cookie.
Cool slightly, and then transfer the cookies onto a wire rack to fully cool.
Ingredients
- 1c butter, softened
- 1c sugar
- 1c brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2c flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3 c oatmeal {quick cooking variety is best}
- 1c butterscotch chips
- 1 c chocolate chips
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine butter and sugars in the bowl of your mixer. Beat for 3 minutes.
- Add the vanilla and eggs to your bowl, and beat again for 3 minutes.
- Mix together the dry ingredients {salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and oatmeal} and then add it to the butter mixture a little bit at a time. Make sure that the dry mixture is incorporated before adding more.
- Stir in the butterscotch chips and chocolate chips until mixed thoroughly.
- Spoon or shape mixture into balls and place on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the cookie looks cooked and slightly browned. Do not over bake.
- Let cool slightly on cookie sheet before removing it to a wire rack to cool.
Enjoy!
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