These oatmeal craisin cookies are made with brown butter, oats, spices and loaded with craisins and dark chocolate chips. They're sweet, tart and buttery!
1 cup(227g)butter browned and then solidified again
1½cups(330g)dark brown sugar
½cup(100g)granulated sugar
2largeeggs
1tablespoonvanilla extract
2cups(280g)all-purpose flour
½teaspoon(0.5teaspoon)baking powder
1 teaspoon(1teaspoon)baking soda
1teaspoonsalt
1teaspooncinnamon
2½cups(202.5g)old fashioned oats
1cup(121.21g)craisins
½cup(90g)chocolate chipsI love using dark chocolate in these
Instructions
Start by browning the butter. You'll take one cup of butter and melt in a medium saucepan, and then continue to cook past the point of boiling. You will do this over medium heat, past the point of the butter foaming, until it turns a nice golden brown, and has a nutty smell. Make sure you are stirring and watching it, because it will turn from perfectly brown to burnt fairly quickly. Once finished browning, pour into a glass bowl and put back in the fridge to solidify again. You will want it to become a soft solid again to start the cookie dough. This should take a few hours.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Place butter and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes.
Add eggs one at a time, mix until smooth on low speed, anout 30 seconds each egg. Beat in the vanilla.
Add baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and flour and mix on low, being careful not to overmix. I usually like to stop mixing when I still have flour remnants around the bowl. Fold in oats, followed by craisins and chocolate chips.
Scoop the dough into large balls. I like to use a ¼ cup cookie scoop.
Place 6 cookie balls on your baking sheet. Bake the cookies for 11-14 minutes. You're looking for a nice golden brown outside rim. Sprinkle with a little flaked salt.
Allow cookies to cool on the pan before moving to a cooling rack to hold their shape.
Notes
I have given both cups and grams as measurements. Grams will be more precise, especially when measuring flour. If you don’t have a kitchen scale, no problem! Just lightly spoon flour into your measuring cup to insure its not packed in there. Light and fluffy is the key.If your cookies don't come out a perfect circle, I like to take a little spatula and circle around the cookie to bring in any spots that have spread a little too far.