For the perfect combination of flavors. my Oatmeal Granola Cookies are sure to please! Wouldn’t your family love to snack on these for dessert tonight?
When we got this months recipe swap, things changed up a bit, first of all, we went to a new cookbook for this new year, and our first challenge would be a cookie. Our new cookbook The Second Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Favorite Eating Places, is the second book in the series and was first published in 1954….hmm my first thoughts were that cookbook really isn’t very old…. sigh, especially with I was born in 1953.
Our first recipe redo would be a classic cookie, the one and only Tollhouse cookie from its birthplace, the Toll House Inn in Whitman Massachusetts. Sadly the Toll House Restaurant is no more, having burned down in 1984, while there is a plaque on the original site, there is now also a Wendy’s and a Walgreen’s, what a sad testament to progress.
The rules of the swap are pretty simple, change at least three things about the original recipe and redo it as a more contemporary recipe. I thought about the toll house cookie in all its delicious glory and tried to remember the first time I had one, and you know I couldn’t remember! But what I did remember were the oatmeal cookies that my mother made for me while I was growing up, I remember how much I loved the raw batter and how I could eat a whole bowl without even bothering to bake them….sigh, I also remember that my mother would only let me devour raw cookie batter if it was made with butter, not the Crisco that sometimes took its place.
So when it came time to redo this classic, I had to go with a classic of my own, My mother’s oatmeal cookies. I wanted these cookies to have a little more substance to them, and honestly, raisins just didn’t seem to be enough. I had bought a bag of trail mix on a whim and decided that it would make a great addition to my favorite cookie.
If you like my oatmeal granola cookies, make sure to try my Meyer Lemon Ricotta Cookies.
If you like cookies you make also like these recipes:
- Meyer Lemon Ricotta Cookies
- Sweet and Salty Chex Mix Cookies
- Pistachio Cornmeal Butter Cookies
- Low Sugar Oatmeal Cookies
- Toffee Pretzel Peanut Butter Cookies
Oatmeal Granola Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 ¼ cups firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ⅔ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
- 2 cups trail mix use your favorite blend
- 1 Cup Walnuts finely chopped in food processor*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In the bowl of your mixer cream together butter and sugars until well blended.
- Add in the eggs, and vanilla and continue to whip until almost fluffy.
- In another bowl stir together flour, very finely chopped (should almost resemble powder) nuts, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Slowly add your powdered ingredients to your creamed ingredients while mixing.
- Mix well.
- Now stir in the oats and trail mix.
- Drop by scoop or teaspoon onto hot stone or slightly greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 11-14 minutes depending on cookie size.
- Remove cookies from baking sheet or stone right away and transfer to cooling racks.
Shumaila
Those cookies look real good. The love for raw batter is what inspired me to do cookie dough truffles for this month. I love your interpretation because I love oatmeal cookies. And adding trail mix – that’s brilliant!
Baking Serendipity
I love oatmeal cookies…and therefore your redo 🙂 These look delicious!
Ann
LOVE that you added trail mix to it…very creative!
torviewtoronto and createwithmom
delicious cookies look wonderful
mangiabella
love it, i know i will love these, will let you know when I give them a try! been reading some of your last few posts to catch up, i love cranberry sauce on my turkey sandwiches, a real favorite of mine for sure, my grandmother has a snazzy cranberry sauce she makes that makes me go gaga every year….hoping you are doing well, and staying warm. blessings!
Carolyn
Note to self: never come to Dennis’s blog when really hungry. It’s pure torture!
claire
Hey Chef, hope all is well with you? Again you have given a recipe that my husband will love! I will definately make these to aid his recovery!
Lindsay @ Rosemarried
I love that you used your mother’s oatmeal cookies recipe, and I LOVE that you added trail mix to them. What a brilliant idea. I believe next month is your year anniversary with the swap – what a great year its been!
Mary
Ooooh, I LOVE the idea of a trail mix cookie. Yours look absolutely perfect.
Rachel
I am a huge fan of cookies like this – trail mix + cookie makes for a hearty snack that I’ll rationalize eating any time of day! It’s nice to have some oats and nuts to balance out all the sugar and butter!
It’s so sad to hear that the Toll House is gone. I suppose that’s to be expected, though. It can live on in cookbooks and recipe swaps like this one!
Lora ~ cakeduchess
Hi Dennis-That is sad that Toll House isn’t there any more and you’re right, this book isn’t that old:)These cookies are wonderful! We would eat all the batter too if our mom would let us when were little. Now my kids do the same;)
Kiri W.
Nothing like the classics 🙂 These look wonderful.
Jacqueline - The Dusty Baker
A Walmart and a Wendy’s instead of that gorgeous little house? How depressing. I’m glad we got to honor it in some way with this very young and fresh and hip recipe for the swap 🙂 Happy Holidays chef!
Curt
These look so good! I grew up on the standard Toll House chocolate chip cookie. For many years, no matter how fancy the cookie, my favorite was still the original Toll House cookie on the back of the chocolate chips bag.
Alyssa
I love what you did with the original recipe! I could easily eat a whole batch of those!