Lacy Oatmeal Cookies

These cookies come out very thin and tasty if you follow my recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup white cane sugar

½ cup melted salted butter

1 ½ tsp baking powder

¼ cup all purpose flour

1 cup quick oats

½ tsp fine seasalt

1 medium to large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS:

Set your oven rack in the middle then preheat the oven to 325 degrees. You can use a non-stick spray on your cookie sheets but you’ll have amazing results if you use baking parchment paper, trust me!

In a small bowl combine your salt, oats, flour, and baking powder.

In your mixing bowl, I use my Kitchen Aid mixing bowl at this point, mix the sugar and butter until its well combined. Add the egg and vanilla to your mixing bowl that has the sugar and butter then mix that until all the ingredients are well combined.

Pour the combined ingredients from the small bowl into your mixing bowl then mix it all together until it all appears well combined.

These cookies spread out a great deal during baking so make sure you leave several inches of room around each one when you place them on the cookie sheet. I would suggest a teaspoon sized portion of the dough.

Bake them for about ten minutes but keep an eye on them as they bake because they don’t take very long. You’ll notice, if you watch them, that they rise up then collapse. Generally you want to take them out when the edges turn golden brown and most have started collapsing.

They cool very fast because they are super thin, if they came out correctly they should be full of holes and slightly resemble a piece of lace; which is how they got their name.

Move them to a cooling rack for a few minutes then serve. Keep in mind that timing is everything when baking these so keep an eye on them while they are in the oven.

There is a lot of versatility in these cookies because they cool so fast and keep their shape you can pinch the sides up to resemble a flower, roll them into cones, etc. Feel free to experiment with different shapes or adding various toppings prior to cooling.

For extra credit try rolling them into a cone then dip the end of the cone in chocolate during the cooling process. -HD