Paula's Loaded Oatmeal cookies

Paula's Loaded Oatmeal Cookies

Serves: about 3 1/2 dozen

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened
• 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• Brown Butter Icing, recipe follows

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 1 or more cookie sheets.

Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar in a bowl until fluffy. Add egg and beat until mixture is light in color.

Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice; stir into creamed mixture. Fold in oatmeal, raisins, walnuts, and vanilla, blending well. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Drizzle with Brown Butter Icing.

Brown Butter Icing:

• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
• 1 1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a small saucepan heat butter over medium heat until golden brown, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in sifted powdered sugar and vanilla. Stir in enough water (2 to 3 tablespoons) to make an icing of drizzling consistency. Drizzle on warm cookies.

I love this recipe. It has so much flavor! Tweaked it a bit... add half raisins and half dried cranberries. Also added 1/3 Tablespoon of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and Ginger instead of 1/2 teaspoon. TOTAL SUCCESS

VERY TASTY!! I added alittle more cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg... and added a tiny bit of coffee to the icing... as per the other comments. This is a fantastic recipe, although my cookies turned out a bit flat. Only made 2 doz cookies.

Great cookies. The only thing I did differently was leave out the baking soda and used dark brown sugar (and added little more of it than the recipe called for instead of light because it makes them more chewy and chilled them for a hour before I baked them