Recipe: Pecan Oatmeal Cookies

For my next recipe, I wanted to tackle another cookie basic and one of my personal favorites! Oatmeal cookies! (or as I like to call them, breakfast)

But there is one problem with most oatmeal cookie recipes that I bet many people agree with. Raisins are super nasty. Especially when you see a plate of oatmeal cookies, which you assume are oatmeal chocolate chip, and as you excitedly take a bite your mouth fills with raisiny grossness. The worst.

So my solution? Get rid of raisins. Who needs them? What I use instead are pecans. (For this reason I'm going to slap an ALLERGY WARNING: NUT INCLUDED IN RECIPE). So lets dive right in!

Ingredients
1 cup (2 stick) of soften butter
1 cup brown sugar (for extra sweetness)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups oats (I personally use the quick oatmeal kind)
1 cup pecans, finely diced

(Featuring my mother's kitchen as guest kitchen. This is also my mother's recipe!)

Directions
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a small bowl, combine together your flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Set it aside for later.
3. Beat butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar in a large mixing bowl. Mix until creamy.
(I personally use a hand mixer for all of my cookie making, but if you are so lucky to have a standing mixer, feel free to use it.)
4. Add your eggs and vanilla next and mix well. Make sure its all incorporated in.
5. Now you can mix in those dry ingredients from before (the flour mixture). I recommend doing it a bit at a time to avoid a flour explosion, but that's just me.
6. Mix in your oats and pecans. This is going to get really thick so make sure to turn up your mixer a bit. Mix well so the oats and pecans are well incorporated with the rest of the dough.

7. Oatmeal cookies are drop cookies, so that means take a spoon and drop rounded tablespoons full onto your cookie sheet. These cookies are going to stay together relatively well and won't spread out a ton, but make sure your dough drops aren't more than a tablespoon.
8. Pop them in the oven for 10 minutes, then take out a cool on a wire rack. You're done!

And there you go! A much tastier and less deceiving recipe for oatmeal cookies. If you or your family are anything like me, they will be gone in a matter of hours. Perhaps minutes. I won't judge.

Thoughts from the Boyfriend:
Not bad!