Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
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Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies – Perfectly chewy cookies filled with old-fashioned rolled oats and creamy butterscotch chips. These are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges or for any time of the year! #QuakerUp #MyOatsCreation #CollectiveBias
So who’s ready for some holiday baking? I know I’m already in the spirit! I turned on my Christmas Pandora station today for the first time this year and it totally put me in the mood. I’m absolutely itching to pull out my Christmas decoration boxes, but my hubby is making me wait a few more days. I’m telling you what though, after Black Friday shopping is over? It’s game-on, Christmas tree! 😉
I may be waiting a few more days to put up decorations, but I’m already in the swing of things with cookie baking. I like to try out lots of new cookie recipes during the holidays, but there are always a few that make a regular appearance, like these Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies. When I was younger, I used to love helping my grandma in the kitchen, especially during the holidays. She was an incredible cook, and always made a ton of Christmas cookies. She would pack them up and take them to all of her neighbors, the mailman, her hairdresser, etc. I used to love helping her make and deliver them, but most of all I loved eating them! 🙂
Those are the kinds of memories I want to make with my own kids now, and we got a little head start with these Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies. While I was out shopping at my most favorite store on earth (Target!) I picked up some Quaker Old Fashioned Rolled Oats. I found them right down one of our most-travelled aisles, the cereal aisle.
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My son likes to help out while we’re shopping, so I told him to grab the oatmeal off the shelf. He snatched up the right one without any trouble. He’s pretty familiar with the big oat canisters since we buy A LOT of oatmeal! It’s one of my daughter’s favorite foods, right along with bananas and yogurt. She’s a breakfast kinda girl. 😉
Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies:
- In a large bowl, cream together 1 cup of softened butter, 3/4 cup granulated sugar, and 3/4 cup brown sugar until creamy. In a smaller bowl, sift together 1 1/2 cups flour and 1 tsp. baking soda and set aside. Add 2 eggs and 1 tsp. vanilla to the creamed mixture, and then mix in 1 TB hot water. Gradually add the dry mixture, and beat until smooth.
- Stir in 2 cups of Old Fashioned Rolled Oats and one package of butterscotch baking chips.
- Drop by tablespoons onto cookie sheets. I like to line mine with silicone baking mats or parchment paper.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Remove from oven and allow to cool on the pan for a couple of minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
And that’s it!
So have you gotten a head start on your holiday baking yet? What are some of your favorite ways to use oats? Mine would definitely be cookies, followed close behind by a good old-fashioned bowl of oatmeal with brown sugar on top. You just can’t beat that simple sweetness. 🙂
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Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies with Rolled Oats
Ingredients
- 2 sticks, unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 Tablespoon hot water
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups Quaker Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
- 1 package butterscotch chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl cream together butter and sugars until smooth. Add in eggs and vanilla, then beat in the hot water.
- In a smaller bowl, combine flour and baking soda. Gradually add to creamed mixture, beating until smooth. Carefully stir in rolled oats and butterscotch chips.
- Drop tablespoons of dough onto baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 8-9 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool on pan for a couple of minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.
These cookies look and sound so delicious. I cannot wait to try them for my family.
Yum! I might have to whip some of these up around Christmas time!
These look incredible! The chips Iwant to dive into that pile of goodness. The cookies look thin – I wish I was a better baker.
Gimme all the cookies for the Christmas season! These sound amazing
I e made these the last few years and we love them! I have a question though? I accidentally bought quick minute oats.. can these be used?
We’ve just started our Christmas baking and I am adding these to the list! They look and sound so good, I can almost smell them baking!
These cookies sound amazing! They look so buttery and delicious, perfect for xmas!
What tasty looking cookies, my kids would love these! They’d have to fight me for them though, I love butterscotch!
Really love the idea of old-fashioned oatmeal cookies, with that lovely chew. It’s hard to find good ones, so homemade definitely best. Not sure I can find butterscotch chips where I am, wonder what I can use instead?
Yum, these cookies look cute and fabulous! Love that the kids help in the kitchen. I can smell how good these would taste from all the way over in Australia!
how many cookies does this recipe make?
Hi Shelly! Sorry I forgot to include that! I believe it makes about 30 cookies.
I love cooking with Quaker Oats. These cookies look so delicious. Thank you for linking up at The Wednesday Round Up and we hope to see you back next week!
Oh my! They look incredible! Pinned and tweeted. We always love partying with you, I hope to see you Monday at 7 pm at our party. Happy Sunday! Lou Lou Girls
Thanks for sharing, ladies! 🙂
I made oatmeal cookies recently and I wish I had placed butterscotch in them because yours look so good! I’ll have to try your recipe sometime. Thanks!
Thank you, Connie! We absolutely love them with the butterscotch. 🙂
I love oatmeal cookies but mine always seem to flatten! Yours look delicious!
Christine I’ve had that happen before, too! The first batch usually comes out perfect, but the later batches will sometimes flatten. i’ve found that it works best to let my cookies sheets completely cool in between batches before I drop on my dough. I know it’s good to do that for most cookies, but it seems to make a big difference with the oatmeal ones!
We love oatmeal at our house! I love that you added butterscotch to it too! Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you, Raquel! The butterscotch just takes it up a notch. 🙂
I love baking with oats during the holidays, and these cookies look delicious with the extra butterscotch chips. I definitely could go for one of these right now…thanks for sharing! #client
Thank you, David! Oats are one of my holiday staples, too. 🙂
These look absolutely delish! Pinning!
Thank you, Jenn! 🙂
Baking cookies always takes me back too! I will have to add these to our holiday baking list this year!
Thank you so much, Meg! These are always a favorite.
Such a hearty and satisfying cookie – love the addition of butterscotch!
Thank you, Melanie! I love that butterscotch, too. 🙂
What beautiful cookies!! I LOVE oatmeal too! These are definitey getting pinned and baked! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks so much, Jen! 🙂
Oh yum! Oatmeal cookies are some of my favorites! We go through oats like crazy in our house, as I’m always adding them to everything!
Oats are one of those things I always find myself buying, we eat a ton! Sounds awesome that you add them to so many other things! I need to start throwing them in here or there. 🙂
My husband agreed that on Black Friday we can start decorating too! I’ve only been waiting like 6 weeks!! I love oatmeal in my cookies!
Haha Beth! You and me both! I’m counting down the days now!
These look just perfect for Christmas!
Thanks Ginny! These are one of our favorites for Christmas time!