Oatmeal Cake

Oatmeal Cake

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup Boiled Water
1 cup Oatmeal
1/2 cup Margarine or Butter
2 Eggs
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Brown Sugar
1 1/3 cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
Frosting:
1 cup Chopped Pecans
1 cup Coconut
1 cup Brown Sugar
1/4 cup Milk (can be evaporated milk)
1/4 cup Margarine or Butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Instructions:
Pour water over oats. Add margarine. Beat eggs and then add to oats. Add sugars. Mix. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg. Mix together.
Bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
For frosting, heat all ingredients together in saucepan on stove. Pour over cake and broil in oven for a few minutes. Watch carefully.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies

This cookie recipe came from the Kraft Foods website. It is SO good!

Prep Time:

15 min

Total Time:

28 min

Makes:

About 2-1/2 doz. or 30 servings


Ingredients:
1 cup flour

1 cup old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. CALUMET Baking Powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 egg

1-1/2 tsp. vanilla

6 squares BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, coarsely chopped

Make It

PREHEAT oven to 375°F. Mix flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder and salt; set aside. Beat butter, sugars and peanut butter in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Gradually add flour mixture, mixing until well blended after each addition. Stir in chocolate.

DROP heaping tablespoonfuls of dough, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased baking sheets.

BAKE 10 to 12 min. or until lightly browned. Cool 1 min.; remove from baking sheets to wire racks. Cool completely.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Substitute

Substitute 1 cup BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks for the chopped chocolate squares.

Monster Cookies

Monster Cookies

Ingredients:
1 cup Butter
1 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1 1/2 cup Sugar
3 Eggs
3/4 teaspoon Vanilla
3/4 teaspoon Corn Syrup
1 1/2 cup Peanut Butter
2 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
4 1/2 cup Oatmeal
2 cup Flour
1/2 cup each kind of chip (butterscotch, chocolate, white)

Instructions:
Mix all ingredients together. Drop onto cookie sheet. Bake at 350° for 10 minutes.

Poor Man's Cookies

These are called poor man’s cookies because they contain no eggs, nuts, or milk. They are rich in taste though. They also taste better with a cup of chocolate chips or whatever else you'd like to add.

Ingredients:
2 cups Oatmeal
1 cup packed Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Sugar
1 cup Flour
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 cup Hot Water
1/2 cup Shortening, melted
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 Tablespoons Water

Instructions:
In a mixing bowl, combine oatmeal, brown sugar, sugar, flour, and salt. Combine baking soda and water and stir in oatmeal mixture. Stir well. Add shortening and vanilla. Add 2 Tablespoons water to help them stick together (a few Tablespoons more if needed) when you roll into walnut-sized balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350° for about 10 minutes or until golden-brown. Makes about 36 cookies.

Quick Apple Crisp

4 medium tart cooking apples, peeled and sliced (4 cups)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup oats (quick or old fashioned)
1/3 cup butter or margarine, softened slightly
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon, plus extra
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
Ice Cream or Cream, if desired

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease bottom and sides of an 8 inch square pan with shortening. Spread apples in the pan. Sprinkle apples vanilla and extra cinnamon. In a medium bowl, cut butter into remaining ingredients (except ice cream) until well mixed; sprinkle over apples.
Bake for about 30 minutes or until topping is golden brown and apples are tender when pierced with a fork. Serve warm with ice cream.

I usually double the recipe for the topping and fill a 9x13 pan with apples to make a larger batch.

Neiman-Marcus Oatmeal Cookies

This the best cookie recipe. It is originally a chocolate chip recipe, but I substitute whatever I am feeling like and usually make the batch half of one mix in and half of another.

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
1 1/4 cups blended oatmeal*
1 egg
5 oz Hershey chocolate bar, grated
6 oz chocolate chips
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)

*Measure oatmeal and blend in blender to a fine powder.
Cream butter and both sugars. Add egg and vanilla. Mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll and place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375. Yield is 2-3 dozen depending on how big you make the cookie.

I don't like chocolate, so I usually use white chocolate chips, coconut and pecans for a macadamia style cookie. The dough also freezes really well. I can fit a double batch in my Bosch bowl so I make all of it into dough balls and freeze half of them on a cookie sheet in the freezer, then put the balls into a freezer bag for quick cookies later on. They cook better if they can thaw a little first, or just don't cook them for quite as long without checking on them (they might need to be smashed down with a fork half-way through).

Wanted: Oatmeal recipes

I've got to start using all the oatmeal I have stockpiled. Does anyone have a great oatmeal cookie recipe (preferably one without raisins)? Or other recipes that include oatmeal?