Name: Best Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 9 min
Total time: 19 min
Ingredients: 2 1/2 sticks of softened butter.; 1 cup brown sugar; 1/4 cup white sugar; 1 egg; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg; 2 cups oats; *optional: 1/2 cup craisins

My go-to Best Oatmeal Cookies with Craisins recipe. Make these with or without craisins or swap in raisins.

You will find that his Oatmeal Cookie recipe has the perfect oatmeal to cookie batter ratio. The cookie is nicely balanced. This Oatmeal Cookie with Craisins is the best oatmeal cookie recipe. I think this will become your go-to Oatmeal cookie recipe with or without Craisins.

The Craisins I use for this recipe:

Ocean Spray Craisins Dried Cranberries

Halve the cookie dough

I split the cookie dough in half and make one-half plain and the other half with Craisins.

This batch of Oatmeal Craisin Cookies lasted less than 24 hours in my house. My two sneaky boys had a steady scheme of smuggling out these cookies from the kitchen. With Oatmeal and Craisins it can’t be that bad for them, right? Cranberries are a superfood loaded with antioxidants. Ok enough of me trying to justify that my two boys devoured over 10 cookies each in less than 24 hours. Lesson learned I need to find a cookie hiding place.

Craisins vs Raisins

You can swap out the craisins for raisins if you prefer. I like the craisins tartness with the oatmeal better. Or just leave out the craisins and bake them plain.