This morning, we were at the kids’ school for the annual Family Day. Unlike last year when most of the activities centered around games, the highlight of this year’s affair was a program and a cookie fest. So, I spent the greater part of yesterday afternoon baking our contribution to the cookie fest. I made oatmeal cookies from a recipe given by my sister-in-law, Susan, years ago. To make them more attractive, I added candies — Nips, to be more precise. M&M’s would be too expensive. You may also use chocolate morsels so you’d have chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.
The kids were required to bring 20 cookies each. The recipe was supposed to yield 4-1/2 dozens but I was only able to make 30 pieces. And they were small cookies — about two inches in diameter. I don’t know how I could have stretched the cookie mix to make 4-1/2 dozens. But they turned out great, anyway. 
This recipe will yield about 30 2-inch oatmeal cookies. Oh, and I strongly recommend an electric mixer unless you really prefer to exercise your arm muscles. 
Ingredients :
1-1/4 c. of butter or margarine
3/4 c. firmly-packed brown sugar
1/2 c. granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1-1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon powder
1 tsp. nutmeg powder
3 c. instant oats
1-1/2 c. of chocolate candies (Nips, M&M’s or even chocolate morsels)
Baking procedure:
Preheat the oven to 170oC.
Stir together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Beat the butter or margarine, brown sugar and granulated sugar together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue beating until well incorporated. Add the flour mixture and mix until well blended. Stir in the oats. Lastly, stir in the chocolate candies.
Take a tablespoonful of the mixture and use another spoon to push it onto an ungreased cookie sheet (I lined the cookie sheets with baking paper so I won’t have to wash them hehehe). Bake for 10 minutes. Cool and store in airtight containers.
Those are my oatmeal cookies in the two containers on the lower right side of the photo above. I didn’t bring a camera thinking there would be nothing interesting to photograph. My mistake. Thanks to my daughter Sam for lending me her Olympus Mju 410. Below are more photos from the cookie fest.
Hmmm… mukhang store-bought yata yung ibang cookies.
Sana everybody brought homemade cookies like you did!
Yah, most were store-bought. You won’t believe it but 50% of the cookies there were either Chips Ahoy or Keeblers.
For some reason, when the girls bake oatmeal cookies, they want them large and flat. I like mine the way you baked it.
wow looks amazing! Did you chill the scooped dough before baking? How about the texture of these babies? are they chewy? cakey? crunchy?
noemi, perhaps that’s because they like them crisp? i like mine chewy.
fawn. they’re chewy. another minute in the oven and they would be crisp.
chewy oatmeal cookies is the way to go.the girls must have bragged about their mom’s great cookies
oatmeal cookies+ a glass of cold coke+ chocolate bars= nirvana! I wish i have an oven, i want to make this too! well i guess, i’ll just dream about this.
i spot some keebler soft batch cookies there!
mmm…soft batch…
hi,
Pareho pala ng school kids natin…
we were there too.. grabe nakakasawang kumain ng cookies.. it really is a cookie festival..
(with free show by Eddie K.) hehehhee
LOL Lemon, I was happy enough that kids were eating oatmeal cookies NOT knowing what they were.
paupau, the school memo said there would be milk available but we couldn’t locate the milk heheheh
sarah, ang daming keebler!
sheila? “Pareho pala ng school kids natin”
talaga? next school affair nga, mag-meet tayo ng personal hehehe i’ll e-mail you.
sure, sure..
Hi Connie,
Baking biscuits for your kids to take to school is a humbling feeling.Your kids must be very proud of their mum who cares a lot.
I’ve got a nearly 4 years old girl and she loves mucking around with me in kitchen.Sometimes she tells me what she wanted me to bake and the two of us having a good time in kitchen.my daughter would licked the spoons afterwards and says taste good mummy.
I bet your girls loves mucking around with you in the kitchen as well!
Oh yes, they do Gena. And they’re getting pretty good at creating dishes themselves. I’ve even created a separate category on this blog for their creations.
And the spoon licking that your daughter does… oh yes they do that. When they were a little younger, they would even fight over the bowl where the brownie had been mixed.
I love reading about food almost as much as I enjoy eating it. The cookies look delicious. Salamat. Take care.
Hi Ms. Connie!,
You know i’m an avid reader of your website. Everyday i look forward for a new but easy and simple recipes. I also learn a lot from your stories. Mga kwentong nanay ba.
Just want to say more power to you and pls continue what you’re doing cause you inspire a lot of people specially moms like me.
best rgds,
Lhen
Thank you, Scott.
Salamat, Lhen. Nakaka-touch naman.
I’m so glad I found your blog through Girltalk. I’m a frustrated chef and I love baking sweets and your blog is not just insteresting, but very helpful indeed! I salute your dedication in updating this blog and sharing to us yummy recipes. Keep up the good work. I hope you don’t mind me including your blog in my Multiply links. Ã?¢â”?¢Ã?Â¥Ã?¢â”?¢Ã?Â¥
Hi Kookie.
No I don’t mind. Thanks in fact.
can i bake these cookies even if i don’t have oven??? can i use our oven-toaster???
i like you blog, im an HRM student and i like to bake, im planning on taking Culinary Arts and your blog is very helpful. i made a batch of large round cookies. and they are beautiful..
This looks really good, I also like them chewy. Thanks for sharing this. I will try making this next weekend.
Hi Ms. Connie. I’ve been using your recipes for sometime now. I just want to express my gratitude. Sobrang helpful sa kin. I used this recipe as my Christmas goodies/gifts to friends replacing the chocolate morsels with M&Ms holiday flavor Mint red,green and white lang siya and the kids love it. Actually, I had to do another batch because my 3-yr old, ate almost half of the batch hahaha. Thanks and Merry Christmas!
hi ms. connie!
just to clarify. I’ll add the baking soda to the flour mixture, right? it’s not in the procedure po. thanks, ms connie.
Yes. Let me edit that. Goodness, this is such an old entry!
Try them all but with intervals. Some baked goodies are really fattening.
your cookies looked really delicious! have you tried chilling the dough first before baking it?
That’s a very dated post. Back then, no.