Vanilla Bean Salted Oatmeal Cookies
Our Vanilla Bean Sea Salt was named Food & Beverage Product of the Year and we're celebrating the only way we know how: making oatmeal cookies! This oatmeal cookie recipe is as perfect for a spring dessert with ice cream as it is a cozy fall accompaniment for a mug of hot chocolate. It requires chilling the dough, so keep that in mind when planning for time.
INGREDIENTS
- 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, cold
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon Keep It Savory Salt Co Vanilla Bean salt, plus enough for sprinkling
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup chocolate chips or raisins (optional)
DIRECTIONS
- Slice butter into small pieces and whip in your mixer for a minute or so. Because it's cold it will stick a bit, but don't fret -- scrape and mix.
- Add both sugars, baking powder, baking soda and the cinnamon. With mixer combine at medium speed until the mixture has a crumbly texture.
- Add the eggs, salt and vanilla extract and mix again until combined.
- With mixer on low speed, slowly add flour. If your mixer sounds like it's overworking, you may have to continue by hand and use a spoon.
- DON'T OVER MIX or cookies will get tough
- Gently fold in the oats, and optional add-ins of chocolate chips or raisins.
- Chill the dough for at least an hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 (rack on the 2nd position from top).
- Drop dough by the heaping tablespoon onto cookie sheet.
- Lightly sprinkle a few grains of VANILLA BEAN salt on each cookies.
- Bake on 2nd rack from top at 375 for 12-15 minutes. (Cookies should still be soft to the touch).
- Carefully transfer them to a cooling rack and enjoy!
