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Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies at home

Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies at home
chewy oatmeal raisin cookies stacked together with extra raisins in a bowl

The Classic Oatmeal Raisin Cookie

This classic oatmeal raisin cookie is packed, sweet, and chewy with juicy raisins. With a chewy texture and soft interior, it’s a sweet and chewy cookie that will get even the oatmeal raisin cookie haters to love it.

This is the Best Recipe for Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!

With that said, we've been spending our free time developing new recipes for you guys. We spent the better part of a Saturday making soooooo many versions of cookie recipes in hopes of giving you guys a house favorite of a house favorite this holiday season. We're here to tell you, this is the winner of the Oatmeal Raisin category! The texture, the sweetness, the oatmeal-to-raisin ratio, it’s all spot on. Our husband is a pretty big oatmeal raisin fan so he got to be a taste tester. For all the other cookies, our friend Emily is getting the extras. Let us tell you, we definitely dropped off about 6 zippies full of cookies the other weekend and she wasn’t mad about it! Let’s hope she keeps that mind set through the season because she’s going to be getting a whole lot more!

With this recipe, your cookies will be nice and soft and remain chewy for several days. We also didn’t include nuts in our recipe, only because our husband doesn’t like nuts in his cookies or breads so we opted to leave them out. Feel free to add in pecans or walnuts to yours. We would use about 1/3 cup chopped if you decide to take that route.

ingredients to make oatmeal raisin cookie recipe

Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe Ingredients

  • Unsalted Butter
  • Brown Sugar
  • Granulated Sugar
  • Vanilla Extract
  • Molasses
  • Eggs
  • All-Purpose Flour
  • Baking Soda
  • Ground Cinnamon
  • Salt
  • Old Fashioned Oats
  • Raisins

How Do You Make Chewy Cookies?

The amount of brown sugar and fat in a recipe will determine how chewy a cookie is.

Best Oats for Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

We prefer old fashioned oats in oatmeal cookies. This is because they take longer to cook so they hold their texture better. You’ll avoid having a mushy cookie and instead have a good oat texture when they are finished.

Straightforward Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe Add-ins and Variations

Some fun add-ins for oatmeal raisin cookies include: m&ms, butterscotch chips, chocolate chips, pecans, coconut, cranberries, raspberries, and peanut butter.

How to make soft and chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

  1. In your stand mixer, add the butter and sugars. Cream together until it’s light and fluffy.
  2. Add in the vanilla and molasses, and mix for about 30 seconds.
  3. Add in the eggs, mix on high for about 2 minutes.
  4. In a separate large bowl, mix together the flour, baking salt, soda, and cinnamon.
  5. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until combined.
  6. Add in the oatmeal and raisins, mixing between each to combine.
  7. Remove the mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
  8. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
  9. After chilling, remove from the refrigerator and allow the dough to rest at room temperature for 10 minutes.
  10. Preheat the oven to 350° and line your baking sheet with a Silpat.
  11. Scoop balls of dough with a standard cookie scoop and place about 1 ½ inches apart on to your baking sheet.
  12. Bake for 10 minutes.
  13. Once you remove from the oven, allow the cookies to rest and cool on the baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
butter and sugar creamed together in a mixing bowl
wet ingredients mixed with creamed butter and sugar in a mixing bowl
dry flour ingredients mixed together in a bowl
flour mixture mixed with wet ingredients inside of a mixing bowl for oatmeal raisin cookies
oatmeal raisin cookie dough in a mixing bowl before it's been refrigerated
oatmeal raisin cookie dough scooped onto a baking sheet with a silicon baking mat

FAQ for Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Troubleshooting a Recipe for Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

best oatmeal raisin cookies stacked with extra raisins

Storing Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Allow the cookies to cool completely and place them in an airtight container. They will last on the counter top up to 5 days when stored properly.

Enjoy!

Makes 35 cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup unsalted butter room temp
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp molasses
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 cups old fashioned oats
  • 1 cup raisins

Method

  1. In your stand mixer, add the butter and sugars. Cream together until it’s light and fluffy.
  2. Add in the vanilla and molasses, and mix for about 30 seconds.
  3. Add in the eggs, mix on high for about 2 minutes.
  4. In separate large bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
  5. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until combined.
  6. Add in the oatmeal and raisins, mixing between each to combine.
  7. Remove mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
  8. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.
  9. After chilling, remove from refrigerator and allow dough to rest at room temperature for 10 minutes.
  10. Preheat oven to 350° and line your baking sheet with a Silpat.
  11. Scoop balls of dough with a standard cookie scoop and place about 1 1/2 inches apart on to your baking sheet .
  12. Bake for 10 minutes.
  13. Once you remove from the oven, allow the cookies to rest and cool on the baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
  14. WW Freestyle Points: 6/cookie

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