Oatmeal Raisin Cookies with Chocolate Chips

When a cookie passes a five-year-old child’s taste test it’s a winner in my book because isn’t that what a cookie is supposed to do? Cookies should bring smiles to the hearts and faces of children and in this particular case it was our friends’ daughter who was doing the smiling. Of course, the adults were all smiling, too, although that probably had more to do with the margaritas we were drinking, but yes! These oatmeal raisin cookies with chocolate chips are good – so good!

All of this cookie taste-testing happened at a picnic in the park with friends on Sunday. It was a shoes-off-let’s-blow-bubbles-and-listen-to-Simon-&-Garfunkel sort of afternoon and the kind of scene that would have driven me to jealousy had it not been us (“How come we never go on a picnic? It looks so fun!”). Except this time it was us and I can confirm that it was so much fun. I like to think people passing by our little make-shift picnic area were a smidge envious inspired – we had secret margaritas in plastic cups, deviled eggs, barbecue chicken sliders, bite-sized sausage rolls, and a big bag of oatmeal raisin cookies with chocolate chips. We had tall trees to provide shade, soft blankets to stretch out on, and each other’s company to pass the time. We were the perfect picnic advertisement.

Oh, and about those cookies…

I adapted a recipe from Martha Stewart by cutting the whole thing in half, scaling back the flour a bit, bumping up the brown sugar and oatmeal amounts, and adding some cinnamon and nutmeg. The recipe produces a lightly spiced and wonderfully soft and chewy cookie full of plump raisins and melty chocolate chips. Make a batch of these I guarantee they’ll disappear fast.

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