I have been making a lot of fried snacks lately, and I really wanted to take a break from all the fried goodness. While thinking of baked snacks, I thought of the cookie one of my friends had given me. Even now I remember how my taste buds went crazy after taking the first bite of that cookie. With each bite, I tried to find out what all it had which gave it that mesmerizing taste. I could taste the oatmeal, raisins and walnuts in it. Also, the caramelized taste it had made it melt into my mouth. I couldn’t wait any longer to bake it in my own oven, so the very next day I called my friend and made her reveal the secret of that cookie. I was surprised to know from her that it was one of the easiest cookies to make, now this cookie totally agrees with my criteria of being quick and easy. I love to make things quick and without spending much time in the kitchen. All the ingredients to make this cookie were there in my pantry and so right after hanging up the phone, with so much excitement I started to make this. This cookie totally falls into the healthy category, as it has oatmeal and has zero eggs in it. So health freaks no need to have any second thoughts.  One more thing I should add, while baking this cookie, the caramelized aroma spreads all over the house and I took many deep breaths in to fully enjoy this flavor. So preheat your oven to 350F and get ready to bake, in just 15 minutes, you could also indulge in this cookie.

Ingredients: For making 12 cookies:

Dry Ingredients:

• Instant Oatmeal- 1 1/2 cups( I used Quaker instant oats)
• All purpose flour-1/2 cup
• Baking powder-1/2 tsp
• Vanilla extract-1tsp
• Raisins-1/4 cup
• Walnuts chopped-1/4 cups

Wet Ingredients:

• White sugar-1/2 cup
• Brown sugar-1/2 cup
• Butter( slightly melted)-1stick, 8tbsp

Preparation:

• In a large bowl, mix the Oats, flour, baking powder, vanilla extract, raisins and walnuts.
• Now mix the sugars and butter together with a whisk.
• Add the sugar/butter mix in to the dry ingredients and mix everything together until you could make rounds out of it.
• If you cant make solid rounds, add more butter until it could be made into balls.
• Make medium sized rounds out of it and place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degree F and bake it for 15 minutes.

After taking from the oven, allow it to cool for sometime, as the cookie hardens when it cools down.

Voila, now you can indulge in this cookie, have as many cookies as you wish. With this recipe you can make 12 cookies. You could double the amount of the ingredients to make more.