In the seventeenth century, Scottish bakers invented the recipe for the now so popular oatmeal cookie. Useful macro and microelements, the ability to diversify the taste with the help of additives make this recipe universal.
The main ingredient in this pastry is oatmeal. If the recipe does not have any special clarifications, you need to use long-cooked flakes. They should be medium in size. If necessary, you can grind the flakes a little in a blender. Place the cookies on a silicone mat or baking paper. The paper must be greased with vegetable oil so that the finished products are easily separated from it.
Oatmeal cookies according to GOST
There are more than a dozen options for recipes for this pastry. But first, you should use the classic recipe. Baking on it always turns out tasty and successful.
Ingredients:
- 75 g oat flour;
- 170 g wheat flour;
- 85 g butter;
- 185 g sugar;
- 0.3 tsp salt;
- 0.3 tsp soda;
- 0.5 tsp cinnamon;
- 30 g raisins;
- 50 ml of water;
- vanillin.
Rinse the raisins, cut them into very small pieces. You can use a blender or meat grinder. Mix raisins, granulated sugar, softened butter, vanillin on the tip of a knife. Sugar can be replaced with powdered sugar. Then the finished biscuits will be more fragile.
Dissolve salt in water, pour it into the oil mixture. Pour oat flour mixed with cinnamon into the dough.
Add wheat flour in small portions and knead the dough. It must keep the shape of a ball. Add a few more tablespoons of cold water as needed.
Cut out cookies from the dough rolled into a layer, put it on a baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes at 200 ° C.
Plain Oatmeal Cookies
The process of making oatmeal cookies according to this recipe is so simple that a child can easily cope with it. And if adult family members join him, a pleasant and useful joint leisure is provided.
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken eggs;
- 100 g butter;
- 0, 5 tbsp. granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp wheat flour;
- 2 tbsp. hercules.
Soak the butter at room temperature for about 1 hour or put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.
Pour granulated sugar into a bowl with butter and grind until the mixture turns white. This is best done with a spoon. Using a mixer, especially at high speed, can cause the oil to separate. When the butter mixture starts to turn white, add eggs one at a time. Continue to grind the resulting mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Combine flour and oatmeal. Add them to the butter and egg mixture. Stir everything well.
Grease a baking sheet with oil. Using two tablespoons, lay out the dough, leaving a distance of about 5 cm between the cookies. When baking, the products will increase in volume, there must be room for this.
Bake oatmeal cookies for about 10 minutes at 200 ° C. Cool the baked goods slightly before serving.
"Fast" oatmeal cookies
Low-cost in time and economical in terms of products, biscuits will appeal to lovers of homemade baked goods. It takes about 40-45 minutes to cook, and you get a large plate of aromatic pastries.
Ingredients:
- 1 egg;
- 100 g butter;
- 100 g sugar;
- 100 g oatmeal;
- 100 g of prunes or dried apricots;
- 50 g sour cream;
- 100 g wheat flour;
- 0.5 tsp baking powder;
- 0.5 tsp vanilla sugar;
Turn on the oven. While the cookie dough is being prepared, it should warm up to 200 ° C.
Prunes or dried apricots, or you can take a mixture of these dried fruits, rinse in warm water, dry. Then grind them with a blender so that you get small pieces.
Put an egg, plain and vanilla sugar, softened butter in a deep bowl and beat until smooth.
Put chopped dried fruits, sour cream and oatmeal to the whipped mixture. Add baking powder and flour to the dough, knead it.
Place the dough on a baking sheet and flatten. The thinner the dough layer, the crisper the biscuit will be.
Oatmeal cookies with prunes are baked for about 20-25 minutes. The entire surface of the dough should be well browned.
Take out the finished baked goods, hot cut them into squares of any size.
Oatmeal cookies with honey
The taste, aroma and a large amount of useful substances of honey make oatmeal cookies an even more valuable food product.
Ingredients:
- 1 egg;
- 100 g butter;
- 150 g sour cream;
- 90 g granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp honey;
- 200 g wheat flour;
- 150 g oatmeal;
- 0.5 tsp soda.
Grind the butter and sugar. Brown sugar can also be used in this recipe. It will only enrich the taste of finished products. Put honey, sour cream, egg to the mixture of butter and sugar and beat all together well.
Grind oatmeal a little with a blender, pour into the liquid part of the dough, stir. Then add flour, previously mixed in a separate bowl with baking soda. You do not need to extinguish soda with vinegar, and it is not recommended to replace it with a baking powder for the test. Mix everything very thoroughly.
Spoon out the cookies with baking paper or silicone mat. In an oven preheated to 200 ° C, bake the cookies until a brown crust appears. This should take 10-15 minutes. Carefully remove the biscuits onto a flat plate and refrigerate.
Diet Oatmeal Cookies
The recipe for this cookie takes into account all the rules of dietary and proper nutrition. It does not contain sugar or fat, but is unusually rich in trace elements and carbohydrates.
Ingredients:
- 100 g oatmeal;
- 100 g fat-free cottage cheese;
- 2 egg whites;
- 1 tbsp honey;
- 1 tsp cinnamon;
- 40 g raisins.
Pour the raisins with warm water for 30 minutes, then rinse and dry well. Mix oatmeal (for this cookie they are the simplest and cheapest) with all the other ingredients. Shape cookies.
Baking is cooked for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. It will increase in size quite a bit, it will turn out to be fragrant and crunchy.
Oatmeal cookies with white chocolate
A deliciously interesting recipe for oatmeal cookies with dried fruits and white chocolate will be appreciated by the most fastidious gourmets. And to prepare it is easy and simple.
Ingredients:
- 1 egg;
- 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- 120 g butter;
- 0.25 tsp salt;
- 1 tbsp. instant oatmeal;
- 1 tbsp. wheat flour;
- 0.5 tsp baking powder;
- 0.5 tsp cinnamon;
- 2 tbsp dried cranberries;
- 50 g of white chocolate.
Beat the softened butter and sugar. Add the egg to the resulting mass and continue beating for 30 seconds.
Add salt, baking powder and cinnamon to the dough. But keep in mind that it will drown out the aroma of cinnamon a little.
Stir in the oatmeal thoroughly. Then add dried cranberries. By the way, it can be replaced with cherries or raisins. Or you can divide the dough into three parts and bake cookies with different fillings.
Add chopped chocolate and flour to the dough. Knead everything together thoroughly with your hands. This recipe gives a lot of room for culinary creativity. Instead of white chocolate, you can add both milk and bitter. It all depends on the taste preferences of the baking tasters.
Divide the dough into 12 equal parts, roll into balls. Bake cookies on a large baking sheet, leaving a distance of about 5-7 centimeters between the products. When baking, the balls will flatten a little, the edges of the cookies should not join.
Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 15 minutes. Turn off the oven, leave the cookies in it until they cool. If you pull it out right away, the middle of the product will settle. This will detract from the appearance a bit, but will not affect the great taste of this oatmeal cookie at all.
