In the seventeenth century, Scottish bakers invented a recipe for the now-popular oatmeal cookie. Useful macro and micronutrients, the ability to diversify the taste with the help of additives make this recipe universal.
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The main ingredient in this baking is oatmeal. If the recipe does not have any specific specifications, use long-term flakes. They should be medium in size. If necessary, the flakes can be crushed a little in a blender. Spread cookies on a silicone mat or baking paper. The paper must be greased with vegetable oil so that the finished products can easily be separated from it.
Oatmeal cookies according to GOST
There are not a dozen options for recipes for this baking. But first, use the classic recipe. Baking on it always turns out tasty and successful.
Ingredients:
- 75 g of oatmeal;
- 170 g of wheat flour;
- 85 g butter;
- 185 g of sugar;
- 0.3 tsp salts;
- 0.3 tsp soda;
- 0.5 tsp cinnamon
- 30 g of raisins;
- 50 ml of water;
- vanillin.
Rinse the raisins, cut them into very small pieces. You can use a blender or a meat grinder. Mix raisins granulated sugar, softened butter, vanilla on the tip of a knife. Sugar can be replaced with powder. Then the finished cookies will be more fragile.
Dissolve the salt in water, pour it into the oil mixture. Pour oatmeal mixed with cinnamon into the dough.
When adding wheat flour in small portions, knead the dough. It should maintain the shape of a ball. If necessary, you can add a few more tablespoons of cold water.
From the dough rolled out, cut out the cookies, 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.
Hold 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. Do it best with a spoon. Using the mixer, especially at high speeds, can cause oil to stratify. When the oil mixture begins to whiten, add eggs one at a time. Continue to grind the resulting mixture until sugar is completely dissolved.
Mix flour and oatmeal. Add them to the butter-egg mixture. Stir everything well.
Grease a baking sheet with oil. Using two tablespoons, lay out the dough, leaving a distance between the cookies of about 5 cm. When baking, the products will increase in volume, there should be room for this.
Bake oatmeal cookies for about 10 minutes at 200 ° C. Cool the pastries before serving.
Quick Oatmeal Cookies
Low-cost in time and economical in products, cookies will appeal to lovers of homemade pastries. It will take about 40-45 minutes to cook, and you get a large plate of fragrant confectionery.
Ingredients:
- 1 egg
- 100 g butter;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 100 g of oatmeal;
- 100 g of prunes or dried apricots;
- 50 g sour cream;
- 100 g of 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, and dry. Then grind them with a blender so that small pieces are obtained.
Put the egg, plain and vanilla sugar, softened butter in a deep bowl and beat until smooth.
Put crushed dried fruits, sour cream and oatmeal to the whipped mixture. Add baking powder and flour to the dough, knead it.
Put the dough on a baking sheet and level it. The thinner the dough layer, the more crispy the cookies will turn out.
Oatmeal cookies with prunes are baked for about 20-25 minutes. The entire surface of the dough should be well browned.
Get ready-made pastries, hot cut it into squares of arbitrary size.
Oatmeal cookies with honey
Taste, aroma and a large number 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 of granulated sugar;
- 1 tbsp honey;
- 200 g of wheat flour;
- 150 g of oatmeal;
- 0.5 tsp soda.
Grind a little cream and sugar. When baking cookies according to this recipe, you can use brown sugar. It will only enrich the taste of finished products. Put honey, sour cream, an egg to a mixture of butter and sugar, and beat well together.
Grind oat flakes a little with a blender, pour into the liquid part of the dough, stir. Then pour in flour, previously mixed in a separate bowl with soda. It is not necessary to extinguish soda with vinegar, and it is not recommended to replace it with a baking powder for the test. Mix everything very carefully.
Spread cookies with baking paper or a silicone mat using spoons. In a oven preheated to 200 ° C, bake cookies until a brown crust appears. This should take 10-15 minutes. Carefully remove the cookies on a flat plate and cool it.
Diet Oatmeal Cookies
The recipe for this cookie takes into account all the rules of dietary and proper nutrition. It does not contain sugar and fat, but is unusually rich in trace elements and carbohydrates.
Ingredients:
- 100 g of oatmeal;
- 100 g fat-free cottage cheese;
- 2 egg whites;
- 1 tbsp honey;
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 40 g of raisins.
Pour raisins with warm water for 30 minutes, then rinse and dry well. Oatmeal (for this cookie they need the simplest and cheapest) to mix with all other ingredients. Form a cookie.
Baking is prepared for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. It will increase in size quite a bit, it will turn out fragrant and crispy.