Delicious Oatmeal Cookies With Pecans & Raisins

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Thank You! This recipe is very helpful.

All of my nieces and nephews(12 of them) have a bake-off contest every holiday season and the family judges their creations after dinner.

All of us aunts and uncles chip in and give the winner 500.00.

Been doing that for about 10 years now.

Harry Slatkin sells candles that are oatmeal scented, and this recipe is on the class container of those candles. That seems like a lot of family fun-loving time spent together. It's not boredom; it's quality time where they are inspired to actually bake and follow a how-to recipe in chronological order. That activity could lead them to running and owning their own bakery or some type of food establishment one day.

Wow, winner gets $500 that's a nice sized reward. God job, you all are molding them in the right way because they will always need to eat, and those items on store shelves are full of all kinds of dangerous ingredients.

 

[katsteve2012]

Harry Slatkin sells candles that are oatmeal scented, and this recipe is on the class container of those candles. That seems like a lot of family fun-loving time spent together. It's not boredom; it's quality time where they are inspired to actually bake and follow a how-to recipe in chronological order. That activity could lead them to running and owning their own bakery or some type of food establishment one day.

Wow, winner gets $500 that's a nice sized reward. God job, you all are molding them in the right way because they will always need to eat, and those items on store shelves are full of all kinds of dangerous ingredients.

It's really been a joy to see them keep the tradition alive.

When we started this 10 years ago, they ranged in age from
11 to 16, and we decided to do it as a way to have a special family event every holiday season, with some incentives for participating, and to keep them close.

Now they are all adults, most finished college and are working, some with families of their own, but the competitive aspect of it seems to have intensified as they have gotten older, and of course, even in these times, $500.00 can certainly purchase a few Christmas gifts, but in some ways bragging rights seem to appeal to them even more, if anything it has contributed to them all coming together as family every holiday season, which we love seeing.

 

[toobfreak]

All of my nieces and nephews(12 of them) have a bake-off contest
All of us aunts and uncles chip in and give the winner 500.00.

Do you have room for one more (nephew) there?
Gee, when I was a kid, $5.00 would have been a real prize!

 

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Just to update things concerning this recipe.

It calls for toasted pecans, and not for roasted pecans. Please don't get the two mixed up. I ended up taking the roasted pecans back to the store, and going into the baking (spices) section and getting some regular pecans by Fisher. Walmart easily swapped them out for me, no problem since they were not open. I didn't even have the receipt, but my debit info was in their computer system.

The way you get the pecans toasted (as the recipe calls for) you put them into the oven for 5 minutes. I'm only going to put mine in the oven for 3 minutes after the oven preheats. I will set a timer. Then I will remove them off the baking dish right away so they cool off faster. That's my update, hope it helps.

 

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It's that time.... prep time for the oatmeal cookies.

No, I have not baked the cookies yet. I had to wash the class bowl that goes with the kitchen aid mixer, the other silver large bowl, and I had to make sure all the dust was wiped off the kitchen air mixer after it just sat collecting dust for 9 months. I washed the cooling rack, dried it, then I washed the baking pan and layered it with parchment paper. Don't use wax paper because it can catch fire.

Next I have have the eggs and butter warming to room temp. I measured out all the other ingredients. Remembering to measure the dry ingredients in different measuring cups than the ones used for measuring liquid ingredients. I actually took homemaking for three years while in high school. That's where I learned a lot of this. I toasted the 1 cup of pecans in the oven and set the timer for 4 mins spread them on a cool dish quickly. Then I turned the over off. I just wanted to carefully get that part out of the way, so as not to mess it up. Toasted pecans taste pretty good. Everything is measured out.

Now I'm taking a break to watch the parade. Then I will start back and complete the baking.

 

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My oatmeal cookies are done. They came out great!

I baked 6 cookies and the bowl is still full of oatmeal raisin-pecan batter. Six cookies is about all I wanted. Now what am I going to do with all this batter. I will have to bake them and give them away; maybe freeze some of the batter.

It's a great recipe. Decent ingredients. Now I feel like I have nothing to do for today. My oatmeal baking experience is over.

 

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I should have brought this up sooner but... two more things I would do different if making this batch of cookies from scratch is...

1. I would cut the recipe in half because as it is it makes too many cookies.
2. I would also not stir in the oatmeal, raisins, and pecans into the bowl of cookie mixture. I would maybe roll (rather than stir) some of the cookie dough into the bowl that has the oatmeal, raisins, and pecans in it.

Stirring it all up into one bowl tends to smother the oatmeal to where it cannot be seen. That's it for now.