Raisin cookies can be made with various types of raisins and ingredients such as oatmeal and nuts. Modifications can be made for denser or flatter cookies. Variations include pineapple, peanut honey, and applesauce raisin cookies.
Raisin cookies are typically a drop cookie, where spoonfuls of batter are dropped onto a cookie sheet. Raisins are full of sugar and moisture, which help make cookies a lunchtime favorite. Raisin cookie batter can resemble that of a sugar cookie or feature ingredients to enhance its bulk and flavor, such as oatmeal and nuts. The types of raisins used in cookies can also vary, including dark or light raisins.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are often a family favorite because they’re easy to make, pack well for lunches, and their flavor appeals to adults and kids alike. They feature brown and white sugars, flour and butter. The oats and rolled raisins are mixed into the batter at the end. The biscuits are dropped by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased biscuit sheet and baked until golden brown, then cooled on a wire rack.
Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Ice Box Cookies get their crunch from six-grain cereal. They feature golden raisins and coarsely chopped walnuts. The prepared dough is rolled into logs on waxed paper and refrigerated at least six hours before baking.
You can modify the basic recipe to make dense and chewy raisin cookies. Changes include using just brown sugar instead of a white and brown combination, and refrigerating the dough before spooning it onto the cookie sheet, or spooning the cookies out and placing the entire cookie sheet in the refrigerator. Chopped walnuts can also be added to the mix. Another variation, pecan raisin oatmeal cookies, is made by adding cooked and coarsely chopped pecans to the batter. Unlike thick raisin cookies, flat raisin cookies are pressed with the bottom of a glass to flatten them before they are baked.
Variations of raisin cookies can be made with a smoother batter made up of flour, baking powder, and ground cinnamon. Butter, eggs and milk are mixed with the dry ingredients and raisins are added at the end. The cookies are baked until their edges are golden brown. To make giant sugar cookies with raisin dots, small clusters of raisins are added to the tops of the cookies just before baking.
Nuts and fruit are common ingredient choices for adding flavor to raisin cookies. Peanut Honey Raisins contains crunchy peanut butter, honey, and chopped, salted peanuts. Pineapple Raisin Cookies are flavored with chopped pineapple. The raisin cookies have chopped nuts and are topped with brown buttercream frosting. Applesauce Raisin Cookies have applesauce in the mix. The filling for stuffed raisin cookies is made by blending raisins and nuts in a blender, then adding sugar, water, and cornstarch, and cooking the mixture.
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