Chewy Oatmeal Rum Raisin Cookies Recipe

[Saviolo]

Whoops! Forgot to link this yesterday when the video went up. Just a simple little oatmeal raisin cookie recipe this week! Couple of really nice things about this recipe: It takes almost no time to mix up, because you want to make sure you don't overmix anything, and it also freezes very well, so you can bake off a few cookies whenever you want them. Also, one of the biggest problems with oatmeal raisin cookies is that people really don't treat the raisins right. If you reconstitute the raisins for a little while before you bake with them, it will prevent them from becoming tough and leathery. How you rehydrate is up to you, and if you don't want to use booze like we did, you can rehydrate them in white grape juice or apple juice as well.

I suspect that one of the big reason people don't like raisins in cookies is that they just aren't treated right, and they get far too dried out and tough in your cookie.

[Phoenix61]

1. Good point about the raisins.

I use dried fruit in my fruit cake and moisten it up with Capt Morgan’s. I never thought about doing that with the raisins in Oatmeal Raisin cookies but will the next time I make them.

[japple]

2. That is a good point about raisins for some people, but I like burnt raisins, plump raisins,

rummed raisins, or raisins in every form. My niece & nephew HATE raisins because they had to eat oatmeal cooked with raisins and think those (plumped) raisins are gross, gross, gross. Picky, picky, picky is what I say.

[Saviolo]

3. I'm also a fan of many different states of raisins

I never had the aversion to them that so many people seem to have. I never got the joke about being oh so disappointed finding out a cookie you thought had chocolate chips actually had raisins instead 'cause raisins are good, dammit!