New England Oatmeal Cookies for The Secret Recipe Club

 

 

Serious, SERIOUS happy pitter patter of my heart happened to me this past month for I was assigned through The Secret Recipe Club to a New England based food blog called, I Am Honey Bee .  That's right folks, this blog is based in the lovely city of Boston.  Less than 2 hours away from me!!! Hip, Hip, HOORAY!  I just love finding fellow food bloggers that live in New England. 

 

 

The adorable, Nicole is the brains and beauty of I Am Honey Bee.  She offers a huge variety of wonderful recipes.  I chose a cookie recipe (no surprise there!) but I was seriously on the edge of trying out Nicole's recipe for Insalata Caprese.  The cookie recipe that I chose to bake is called, Maple Walnut Oatmeal Cookies.  I mean really! - how could I NOT make such a cookie recipe!?!  Living in the heart of NH, maple anything is a delight to me.  And these cookies baked up to be a HUGE delight to me and my little family.  Yum. SERIOUS yum!

 

 

The cookies were full with maple flavor along with a soft middle with a nice crisp edge allowing for the perfect amped up oatmeal cookie.  And because I adore raisins in my oatmeal cookies I threw a bunch of those in along with the chopped walnuts that Nicole had in her cookies.  Thus the title of these cookies becomes, Maple Raisin Walnut Oatmeal Cookies....the perfect New England oatmeal cookie in my book.  Next time I may add some dry cranberries into the batter just to make it an "ALL" flavors of New England cookie. :-) 

 

 

Maple Raisin Walnut Oatmeal Cookies

(recipe slightly altered from, I Am Honey Bee)

 

Ingredients:

 

1 cup flour (I used all-purpose but Nicole used whole wheat)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp real vanilla extract

1 cup maple syrup (I used 1/2 cup maple syrup and 1/2 cup granulated maple syrup)

4 cups rolled oats

1 3/4 cups chopped walnuts

1 cup raisins (my addition)

 

Directions:

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Line baking sheets with parchment paper or a Silipat.

 

2. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt in a medium sized bowl.  Set bowl aside.

 

3. Cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy.  Add in eggs one at a time, beating well in between each egg. Add in vanilla extract and maple syrup.  Beat well to combine all together.

 

4. Add in sifted dry ingredients to the wet mixture and mix well. 

 

5. Add in oatmeal and mix well.  Toss in nuts (and raisins if you so wish) and mix to combine.

 

6. Drop cookie batter by the rounded tablespoon onto prepared sheets.  Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges of cookies start to brown and center is still slightly moist.  Cookies will continue to bake once out of the oven and cooling.

 

Enjoy!  And ENJOY some more!



While you are enjoying your cookies please be sure to browse through my fellow Secret Recipe Club-ers blogs....they seriously ROCK! Just see the great links below..... :-)

 

Happy Maple Walnut Raisin Oatmeal Cookie Baking!