Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350^. Grease or spray an 8-inch square pan, and line with quick release foil. --- Combine all ingredients ,except butter,chips and jam. Blend in butter with a pastry blender to get a crumbly mixture. Press 2 c. of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Spread the jam to within 1/4 inch of the edge. Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top, and lightly press it into the jam. Bake for 3 minutes , or until lightly browned. Five minutes before removing from the oven sprinkle mini chips over top- return to oven , to finish baking time. Allow to cool before cutting into bars.

Steps:

• 1. Line an 8x8-inch baking dish with aluminum foil. Once lined, spray the inside of the foil lined baking dish with a no-stick cooking spray; set dish aside.
• 2. In a medium size bowl, add the flour, soda and salt. Stir ingredients with a spoon to mix. Now add the brown sugar, oats, and butter. Mix ingredients with a pastry blender, to form a crumbly mixture. (I used a fork to mix the ingredients together thoroughly. It did take at least 5 minutes to blend everything together.)
• 3. Add 2 cups of the oatmeal crumb mixture into the baking pan. Press the crumb mixture down firmly with your hand.
• 4. Spread the preserves to within 1/4 inch from the edge of the pan.
• 5. Sprinkle remaining oatmeal crumb mixture over the preserves. Press the crumb mixture some-what firmly on top the preserves.
• 6. Place pan in a preheated 350 degree oven, and bake bars for 40 minutes.
• 7. Once the bars are baked, allow to cool to room temperature. (I then refrigerate the bars for a couple hours, so they can firm up a bit.)
• 8. Use aluminum foil to lift bar mixture from the pan. Cut bars into 12 squares.
• 9. *Note: I made these bars twice, once using raspberry preserves, and the other using home-cooked strawberry jam, but I found I much preferred the bars with the raspberry preserves. I think these bars would taste great using apricot preserves, or another kind of tart-tasting jam or preserves.

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper or nonstick aluminum foil.
• Melt the base. In a medium pot on medium heat, add the brown sugar, butter and pumpkin pie spice. Cook, stirring, until the butter melts and the mixture is less gritty.
• Finish the batter. In a large bowl, add the oats, flour, almond extract and egg and toss. Slowly add the butter mixture from the pot while constantly stirring the oat mixture.
• Bake and rest. Use a teaspoon to drop the batter on the prepared baking sheet about 3 inches apart to allow spreading. This will take patience and several batches. Also, to avoid a big glob, try to gently press the oats so they aren't in a mound.
• Bake on the center rack until the edges are caramelized and the centers stop rapidly bubbling, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove and leave on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer the entire sheet of parchment onto a wire rack. After a few more minutes, transfer the cookies from the parchment to rest directly on the wire rack. Continue until all the batter is cooked and the cookies are fully cool and rigid, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Fill and serve. Pick 2 cookies with approximately the same size and shape and spread about 1/2 teaspoon of raspberry jam on the bottom/flat side of one cookie, then sandwich the matching cookie's bottom/flat side to the other; repeat until done. Store in an airtight container in a cool place, even the fridge, for up to 1 week. Happy holidays and happy cookie making!

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter a 8" sq pan and set aside.
• Mix all the ingredients together except the Jam.
• Press 2 cups of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
• Spread jam to within 1/4" of the edge.
• Sprinkle the remaining crumb mixture over the top and lightly press it into the jam.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes and allow to cool on rack before cutting into 2x1-1/2" bars.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Line an 8 x 8 inch square pan with foil and spray with nonstick.
• Combine all ingredients except for the preserves.
• Press most- but not all of the oat mixture into the pan.
• Spread the preserves almost to the edge of the oat mixture.
• Sprinkle the remainder of the oat mixture on top of the preserves.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375F. Prepare cookie sheets with silpat or parchment. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. Using the paddle attachment of your stand mixer, cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well. Slowly mix in the flour mixture, then stir in the oats by hand. Using a tablespoon of dough per cookie, roll into balls and place on cookie sheets, at least an inch and a half apart (they spread a lot). Bake for a total of 12-15 minutes, rotating the cookie sheets mid-way, until cookies are golden brown. Cool on cookie sheets for 5-8 minutes before removing and letting cool completely on wire racks. Spread a thin layer of jam on the bottom of one cook ie and top with another. Repeat until all cookies are used.

Steps:

• Cream butter, beat in sugars.
• Beat in water, extracts and eggs.
• (Will look curdled.)
• Stir in rest of ingredients well.
• Drop by Tbls. onto ungreased cookie sheet. Make a small well in centers, fill with a teaspoons of raspberry preserves or jam.
• Take a tiny piece of dough and kindof half cover the jam down the center over just the jam.
• Bake for about 9-11 minutes at 400º.
• Let set on cookie sheet for 1 minute, remove to wire racks to cool.
• Seems like I got about 3 1/2 dozen -- I didn't get to count them, they were being eaten too fast!