#Oatmeal raisin cookies best recipe plus#

So, there certainly were oat cake recipes printed on the box back in the early 1900s, but I haven’t found a source yet that reveals when exactly the famous Quaker Oats oatmeal cookie recipe, also known as “Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies,” first appeared. Here’s a recipe from the BBC if you’d like to see how oat cakes are made. Oat cakes are not the same as the later Quaker oatmeal cookies. The official Quaker Oats history says only that an oat cake recipe began appearing on the box in 1908. One article claimed that “by early 1900s a recipe for the delicious treats appeared on every container of Quaker Oats.” This anecdote is repeated, often word-for-word, on other websites. When was it invented? When did it start appearing on the box or canister? When I reached for the my canister of old-fashioned oats to take a closer look at the recipe, I wondered where the original recipe for Quaker oatmeal cookies came from. She loaded them up with lots of extra goodies like coconut, pecans, and chocolate, calling them “cowboy cookies.” Many’s the time I popped open the storage container to grab a handful of those cookies! My mom made a variation of these when I was a kid. Is there anything better than the classic Quaker Oats oatmeal cookies? Probably not, at least in the oatmeal cookie category.

#Oatmeal raisin cookies best recipe plus#

The classic Quaker oatmeal cookies recipe from the old-fashioned oats box or canister, plus tips for making these cookies come out perfectly! These are also known as Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.