Simple oat raisin cookies

Urgh. I'm ill and feeling a bit sorry for myself this weekend. I also fancy some cookies, but I'm thinking I should branch out a bit from my regular cookies. Of course though, feeling under the weather also means that I can't be bothered to do anything that would require very much faff at all - so simple is the name of the game. The inspiration came from this recipe, though it's hardly anything out of the ordinary.

Simple Oat Raisin Cookies
Ingredients

• 100g Plain flour
• 1/2 tsp Baking powder
• 100g Porridge oats
• 50g Caster sugar
• 75g Sultanas
• 100g Butter
• 1 tbsp Honey
• 1 tbsp Black treacle

Method

1. Mix flour, baking powder, oats, sugar and sultanas together.
2. Melt the butter, honey and treacle together, then stir into dry ingredients.
3. Roll into small, squashed-meatball shapes, place onto a lined tray and bake at 180C for ~15 mins.

Here's the mixture before forming. As you can see, it's rather crumbly, so you need to press the mixture together just like you're making meatballs.

Fresh from the oven. I find it quite hard to tell how cooked oat cookies are, and I think I may have ever-so-slightly overdone them.

I tried so hard to get all of them to fit onto my cooling rack. I think I might need to get a bigger rack!

They do look good though, don't they?

Well, I needn't have bothered trying to cram them all onto the cooling rack - the four that didn't fit (and several more to boot) were devoured in an instant (not just by me, I hasten to add; Fiona did help!). These were just about everything that I had hoped for - slightly crunchy, deliciously chewy and just the right amount of crumbly. There's a wonderful hint of toffee from the sultanas, and a rich, dark after taste from the treacle. These are very good cookies - probably not right up at the top of my list, but when you factor in how easy they are to make, they definitely warrant another go at some point. Perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon in the conservatory with Radio 4 and a cup of tea! We'll see how they are once they cool down, but fresh from the oven, they're pretty wonderful!