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The BEST Salted Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!
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The BEST Salted Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!



Oatmeal raisin cookies have to meet a very specific criteria in order to be their absolute best! They must be so chewy with a flavor that almost tastes caramelized and they must have the right amount of salt to balance out the sweet raisins. These check all those boxes and more – creating an incredible oatmeal raisin cookie recipe that even raisin skeptics could love!

Salted Oatmeal Raisin Cookies


I’m convinced that people who hate on oatmeal raisin cookies have just never had a good oatmeal raisin cookie. Just listen to this crunch. It’s chewy. It’s chewy. It’s sweet. I think the problem is that people try to make chocolate chip cookies into oatmeal resin cookies. Those are meant to be like soft and gooey. You got to be sweet and chewy and salty. This is the

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  2. @DooDooMuffins

    I like oatmeal cookies. I hate raisins. Raisins are disgusting. But not as disgusting as the sound of chewing 🥴

  5. @elonasy

    Your sweater is so pretty! Can you share where it’s from?

    Also, you are my favorite baker! I’ve tried so many of your recipes and none have ever failed me 😋

  6. @megd81

    No, it's because raisins don't belong in desserts and I will not be swayed by your big raisin propoganda.

  7. @CardinalSinOfCake

    I adore ANY kind of oatmeal raisin cookies. Crunchy, soft, whatever it is, I will eat them. Lol. To be honest, even just oatmeal cookies I'll eat. They're just too damn good 😂

  10. @Mcwrah

    I am seein so many people add salt nowadays to desserts, chocolate, caramel… cookies… I tried and it just ruins desserts, no matter how (think its my sensitive taste buds) but any salt on TOP or more than pinch inside a recipe overwhelms and kills flavour because I can ALWAYS taste the saltiness over sweetness and it just… makes my tummy upset and nausea creep in. What is up with this salt on desserts trend bleh

    Otherwise though LOVE oatmeal cookies and I enjoy raisins so this sounds like a good combo MINUS the salt

  12. @faeriexdecay

    Yeah, no, no thank you. I don't like oatmeal, and I don't like raisins in things. I don't like oatmeal raisin cookies. I don't care how they're made. Stop trying to make me like these, universe, STOP IT.

  16. @julianffan

    I once made a bunch of different recipe versions of these for an annual farmer's market, and this is what I learned:
    1. CHOP THE RAISINS!!! I don't know why, but it makes it so you don't get resistance from the raisin skin, it just melts and you just get the sweetness.
    2. Use golden raisins! The flavour is less grapey and fruity, and more sugary.
    3. Spices. Cinnamon and nutmeg. Don't use a lot, and you won't even notice it, but it adds depth to the flavour that helps cut the blandness of the oats.

    Edit: I didn't make them because I like them, personally I would never choose an oatmeal raisin cookie! It was a compromise because we needed something healthier for the people at the market who wanted it. But these ended up being really addictive. Once we made them it was hard to get them to the market because we all wanted to eat them, even the people who didn't usually like them. So you could say these are oatmeal raisin cookie tips for people who hate oatmeal raisin cookies!

  18. @Crem_ate

    It's just another cultural bandwagon thing. The type of thing that people have an overblown reaction to because pop culture has told them not to like it (and that the appropriate response is melodrama or else they're a freak or something). Simple as

  22. @bodyofhope

    I'd love to see a cross between an oatmeal raisin cookie and a ginger snap. All the texture of an oatmeal raisin, but with the kick & fall spice of the classic ginger snap.