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Old Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies

These old fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and incredibly delicious. These cookies require no dough chill time and can be made from start to finish in under 30 minutes. These cookies remain soft and delicious even 1 week after making them.

Growing up one of my favorite cookies from the store was the packaged iced oatmeal cookies. I have a huge sweet tooth, so really any cookie I saw that had icing on it was an instant, I need to try that, in my book. However, not all of them were always that great. Iced oatmeal cookies, however, were one of those cookies that were really good.

These iced oatmeal cookies were especially special to me around Christmastime. These are a classic Christmas cookie, and while my mom and Grandma didn’t bake these, we always made sure to buy these cookies from the store to add to our Christmas cookies.

These Iced Oatmeal Cookies have been one of my favorite cookies to recreate at home. They fill your house with a delicious smell as they bake (think warm cinnamon and brown sugar), and they taste incredible fresh from the oven. I truly cannot get enough of these iced oatmeal cookies.

The details

The components

the cookie dough

This cookie dough bakes up into incredibly soft, tender, moist cookies. The key to this is chopping the oats into a variety of textures. It provides enough structure for the cookies, while also helping to retain moisture in the cookies, making them moist. These cookies remain moist and soft even a week after making them!

the icing

These iced oatmeal cookies taste good even without icing, but when you add the icing..Wow! They are so good! The icing is simple and only requires two ingredients – powdered sugar and milk or heavy cream. The heavy cream will make the icing a bit more rich. The icing adds the perfect amount of sweetness to the cookies.

chilling the dough vs. not chilling the dough

Unless absolutely, positively, without a doubt, needed, I will not chill cookie dough. Running around after my three little boys keeps my days super busy, so I like to try to make recipes as easy and fast as possible without sacrificing on flavor and texture.

Chilling cookie dough can contribute to the tenderness of cookies as well as help cookies maintain their shape. Chilling cookie dough can also help to concentrate the flavors in a cookie, as the flour has a chance to hydrate and sugars dissolve and blend more evenly into the cookie dough. This contributes to the flavor of the cookies, making them taste more rich.

Okay, so now you’re probably wondering why in the world I wouldn’t chill my cookie dough and how they could be as good. Well, these iced oatmeal cookies have enough flour and oats in them to maintain their shape, resulting in a cookie that spreads just enough to allow the cookies to still be thick and soft.

Secondly, these iced oatmeal cookies use melted butter instead of softened butter. The melted butter results in a cookie that is denser and chewier, and helps to achieve the crisp edges while keeping the centers soft – just the way I like them!

Using softened butter incorporates air into the cookie batter which leads to a cookie that is more cake like due to the incorporation of air.

Here’s how to make these Iced Oatmeal Cookies

melt the butter

You’ll begin making these iced oatmeal cookies by melting the butter. The melted butter needs 5 minutes to cool after melting. You can melt the butter either in a microwave safe dish, or in a small saucepan on the stovetop.

chop the oats

The chewy, soft texture for these cookies is achieved by coarsely chopping the oats. Add the oats to your food processor and pulse a few times until you get a variety of textures – finely chopped, coarsely chopped and whole.

mixing the dough

To make these iced oatmeal cookies, you will begin by whisking together the “wet ingredients”. This includes the melted butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk until combined.

Next, you’ll add in the “dry ingredients”. This includes the flour, coarsely chopped oats, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Mix the cookie dough, just until combined. The cookie dough is on the thicker side.

scooping and baking

Scoop the cookie dough by 1 1/2 tablespoon measurements and place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. The edges should be light golden brown. Allow the cookies to cool 5 minutes on the baking sheet before transferring to a wire cooling rack.

Make the icing

While the iced oatmeal cookies cool, make the icing. In a small bowl whisk together the milk or heavy cream and powdered sugar in a small bowl. Make sure the cookies are fully cool before adding the icing.

how do i achieve the crackled icing appearance

In order to achieve the crackled icing appearance, dip the cookies lightly into the icing, then lift straight up, out of the icing, then turn to one side to let the icing drizzle off the cookie. These cookies have a textured surface, which the icing sticks to. Of course, if the icing covers the entire surface of the cookie, they will taste just as delicious!

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Iced Oatmeal Cookies


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  • Author: Jolene
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 18 1x

Description

These old fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and incredibly delicious. These cookies require no dough chill time and can be made from start to finish in under 30 minutes.


Ingredients

Units Scale
  • 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned whole rolled oats
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Icing

  • 1 cups confectioners sugar
  • 12 tablespoons heavy cream or milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.

2. In a food processor, add oats. Pulse a few times so that the oats have different textures (finely ground and coarsely ground).

3. In a microwave safe bowl, or a saucepan on the stovetop, melt the butter. Allow the melted butter to cool 5 minutes.

4. In a large bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment, add butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla. Mix until combined.

5. Add in the flour, oats, baking soda, salt cinnamon and nutmeg. Stir JUST until combined.

6. Scoop cookie dough by 1 ½ tablespoon measurements onto parchment paper lined baking sheet.

7. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. As soon as you pull the cookies out of the oven, use the back of a spoon or rubber spatula to gently press the cookies down. This will help the cookies be more soft and chewy. Allow to cool 5 minutes on baking sheet before transferring to a wire cooling rack.

8. Once the cookies are cool, make the icing. Whisk together powdered sugar and heavy cream, or milk, in a small shallow bowl, until smooth. The icing will be on the thicker side. To achieve the crackled icing appearance, dip the cookies very lightly into the icing, then pull them out and out of the icing. The thick icing will stick to the textured surfaces of the cookie.

  • Prep Time: 15
  • Cook Time: 10
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

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2 Comments

  1. Your recipe for Old Fashion Oatmeal Cookies does not have the butter in the ingredients list How much did you use? Assuming it is 1 cup melted

    1. Hi Susan!

      I just double checked and all the ingredients are listed. Make sure you read the ingredients starting right after the heading that says “ingredients”. It is 12 tablespoons. I hope you enjoy these 🙂

      -Jolene

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