Ok so I wasn’t having much luck finding the right cookie texture, so I adapted this from a bunch of oatmeal cookies. A little of this , little of that. One secret to the chewy texture is I soak the raisins in hot water and hour before mixing them up, plus I added coconut to ’em.
This recipe is a HIT, my middle daughter doesn’t even LIKE raisens and she munches on these all the time.
Ingredients: [‘butter’, ‘shortening’, ‘brown sugar’, ‘granulated sugar’, ‘eggs’, ‘vanilla’, ‘salt’, ‘fresh nutmeg’, ‘ground cloves’, ‘cinnamon’, ‘all-purpose flour’, ‘oats’, ‘flaked coconut’, ‘raisins’, ‘walnuts’]
Quantity of Ingredients: [“1 cup butter, softened “,”1/2 cup butter flvored shortening”,”1 cup brown sugar”,”1 1/4 cups granulated sugar”,”3 large eggs”,”1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla”,”3/4 teaspoon salt”,”1/2 teaspoon fresh nutmeg”,”1/2 teaspoon ground cloves”,”1 teaspoon cinnamon”,”2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour”,”4 1/2 cups oats (I use the quick cooking kind)”,”1/2 cup flaked coconut”,”2 cups raisins”,”1 cup chopped nuts- i use walnuts”]
Number of Servings: 72
Steps: [‘Put raisens in a bowl, pour hot water over them and let soak til plump, then drain.’, ‘Preheat oven to 375 degrees.’, ‘Combine flour,spices, salt and soda in a seperate bowl.’, ‘In your mixer bowl, cream butter and sugars over med speed.’, ‘Add eggs one at a time and then vanilla.’, ‘Scrape bowl well and remix 1 minute.’, ‘Add flour mixture slowly over low speed, once all is in, turn back up to med speed.’, ‘Scrape bowl again, then add coconut and oats, one cup at a time.’, ‘Add nuts and then raisens over low speed.’, ‘Using a #40 cookie scoop(3/4 oz) dish cookies out on parchment covered cookie sheets, dozen to a pan.’, ‘Bake 8-10 minutes til just brown, and soft in the middle. For best results, turn cookie sheets around half way through baking time.’]