Oatmeal Cookies: A Simple Step-by-Step Oven-Baked Recipe with Photos

Looking for interesting recipes to enjoy with your daily tea? Try making these delicious and easy-to-make rolled oatmeal cookies at home, sure to please both kids and adults.

Oatmeal Cookies: A Delicious Step-by-Step Recipe

Nutritional value per serving

183.3 kcal

Proteins: 5.2 g
Fats: 3.2 g
Carbohydrates: 35.4 g

*Nutritional value is calculated per 100g of ingredients

Total time: 40 min
Time in the kitchen: 40 min
Complexity:

It's easy and straightforward to prepare, but it does require some experience. Not everyone can do it right the first time.
Number of servings: 20

Classic rolled oats cookies, or as they are more commonly called "oatmeal cookies," are a delicacy featured in American, Scottish, and Soviet cuisines.

The history of rolled oatmeal cookies, familiar to everyone from childhood, goes back a long way, as the first recipe for Scottish oatcakes was described as early as the 1360s. Typically, the classic version of these cookies takes the form of round or oval cakes, as pictured.

At home, the dough for these cookies is made entirely from rolled oats (oatmeal) or oat flour. This is why homemade cookies are significantly healthier than store-bought ones, which, according to the State Standard, contain only 20% oatmeal, while up to 80% can be replaced with wheat flour.

Over the years, chefs have adapted this ancient recipe to suit the local cuisine and the needs of the population, so today you can find a wide variety of oatmeal cookies made from rolled oats:

soft or crispy;
with the addition of raisins, apples, bananas and other fruits or berries;
pumpkin or "tykviki" (with grated pumpkin or pieces of candied fruit);
with the addition of cottage cheese;
with chocolate inclusions, nuts or coconut flakes;
with various sprinkles (most often sesame or grated nuts);
Lenten and dietary (for those who follow a healthy diet, diabetics and people with gluten intolerance).

You can also find a recipe online that recommends baking delicious rolled oats cookies in the oven or simply in a frying pan.

Today we'll tell you how to quickly and easily bake rolled oatmeal cookies in the oven. The recipe includes nuts, apple pieces, and dried fruit. You can substitute raisins, banana, pear, or peach slices for the apples, and the result will be just as delicious.

You can also make the following adjustments to the recipe:

make cookies without any sugar at all, using honey or 5 grams of sugar substitute;
replace 60 grams of wheat flour with the same amount of oat flour.

Oatmeal Cookies – A Recipe with Apples, Nuts, and Dried Fruit

A simple recipe for baked oatmeal cookies

Ingredients

Servings

Oatmeal

120 G
Flour

60 G
Sugar

80 G
Vanilla sugar

10 G
Butter

60 G
Egg C1

1 pcs
Baking powder

0.5 tsp
Salt

1 pinch
Apple

1 pcs
Lemon zest

to taste
Cinnamon

to taste
Nuts

to taste
Dried fruits

to taste

Preparation

Step 1

Let's start preparing the dough by creaming the softened butter with sugar. You can also add a little vanilla sugar at this stage.

In this recipe, you can use 60-100 grams of sugar, depending on how sweet you want the cookies to be. You can also substitute some of the sugar with honey.

Step 2

Add the egg (white + yolk) to the grated butter, add salt and mix until it is as smooth as possible.

Step 3

Add 120 grams of fine rolled oats, 60 grams of wheat or oat flour (you can simply grind 60 grams of rolled oats), and baking powder to the mixture. Mix thoroughly until smooth.

Step 4

At this stage, you can add the following to the dough if desired:

fresh lemon or orange zest;
cinnamon;
crushed nuts and any other additives.

Step 5

Add the apple, diced into small cubes. Knead the dough with your hands until all the ingredients are evenly distributed.

If you want to make banana cookies, add sliced banana instead of apple.

Step 6

The next step is shaping the cookies. One tablespoon of dough is enough for one cookie. Roll the dough into a ball, press it firmly, and then flatten it.

Step 7

Place the blanks on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

Step 8

Bake the cookies for approximately 15-20 minutes at 180℃ until golden brown.

The delicious and very healthy rolled oat cookies, the recipe for which is presented on this page, can be stored for up to 3 days, as they contain apples. If you make drier cookies without any additives, their shelf life will extend up to 10 days.

We also suggest trying delicious oatmeal cookies with kefir, without eggs or sugar: