Delicious pastries for tea (and other drinks, and generally for a snack) - oatmeal cookies, you can easily get soft, if you follow the recipes of soft cookies, as well as know some baking tricks.
Soft oatmeal cookies - the basic principles of cooking
For the preparation of oatmeal cookies, oatmeal, whole or crushed oatmeal is suitable, and other types of flour, such as wheat flour, are usually added to this. In addition, recipes often contain eggs, margarine or butter, soda or baking powder. You can knead the dough in milk, yogurt or whey, sour cream or kefir, add cottage cheese to it.
Oatmeal cookies can be both sweet and savory. Additives that adorn its taste and texture are nuts and dried fruits, chocolate and cocoa, honey, spices and spices, fresh chopped vegetables and fruits, they even bake cookies with bacon and cheese.
On top of the cookies it is possible to decorate with poppy seeds, sesame or icing.
It is useful to know that many recipes for soft cookies in general can be turned into oatmeal cookies, if you replace from one-third to three-fourths of the flour in the original recipe, oatmeal flour.
Recipe 1. Soft oatmeal cookies: classic chocolate chip and hazelnut Ingredients
· Oatmeal flakes - 1.5 cups;
· Natural milk chocolate - three quarters of a tile;
· Walnuts or hazelnuts - half a cup;
· Wheat flour - a glass;
· Butter - 2/3 packs;
· Eggs - two pieces;
· Sugar - glass;
· Honey - 2 tablespoons;
· Soda - 0.5 tsp;
· Salt - 1/3 tsp.
Cooking
· Crumble oatmeal in a blender;
· Pound soft butter with sugar;
· Finely chop nuts and chocolate; · Grind eggs into butter, add honey and mix;
· Mix flour with oatmeal, salt and soda, and add in small portions to the already mixed ingredients, knead the dough;
· Add chocolate and nuts to the dough;
· Set aside the dishes with dough for a quarter of an hour;
· Further, form large balls and send them to bake in the oven heated to 190 degrees for 16-22 minutes.
Recipe 2. Soft oatmeal cookies: orange
Ingredients
· Cornmeal flour and oatmeal - 1/3 cup;
· Wheat flour - a glass;
· Eggs - two pieces;
· Butter - 2/3 packs;
· Orange peel - a tablespoon;
· Vanilla sugar - a teaspoon;
· Candied oranges and / or lemons - 3 tablespoons;
· Sugar - 2/3 cup;
· Salt - 0.5 tsp;
· Baking powder - a teaspoon.
Cooking
· Beat eggs and sugar, add vanilla sugar, zest, butter, pre-warmed to softness and salt;
· Combine the flour with baking powder and add small portions to the other products;
· Add the last candied fruits and mix everything so that they are evenly distributed over the dough;
· Cover the dishes with dough with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes;
· Form cookies in the form of flat-sized small balls and bake them for 16-18 minutes in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees.
Recipe 3. Soft oatmeal cookies: with apple
Ingredients
· Wheat flour - a glass;
· Oatmeal - glass;
· Yellow raisins - a quarter cup;
· Sugar - 2/3 cup;
· Bullseye;
· Butter - half a pack;
· Baking powder - teaspoon;
· Eggs - two pieces;
· Salt - 1/3 tsp.
Cooking
· Combine soft butter with sugar and eggs, add salt;
· Oatmeal crumble in a blender;
· Add oatmeal to the oil mixture; · Wash the raisins and dry them in a dry frying pan;
· Remove the peel from the apple and rub it, then gently squeeze, removing some of the juice, but do not turn the fruit into mush! Put the apple with raisins to the other ingredients, mix everything;
· Combine flour with baking powder and add to everything else;
· Knead the dough to a density with which it will be possible to form round biscuits that do not melt in medium-sized hands;
· Place them in the oven heated to 180 degrees and bake for about 25 minutes.
Recipe 4. Soft oatmeal cookies: cottage cheese
Ingredients
· one egg;
· Butter - 1/3 packs;
· Low-fat cottage cheese - a pack;
· Granulated sugar - 2/3 cup;
· Oatmeal - a glass;
· Vanilla sugar bag;
· Baking powder - a teaspoon.
Cooking
· Grind the oatmeal in the blender bowl into a crumb;
· Mix butter with sugar, mix egg and baking powder to them, mix everything;
· Add oatmeal to the resulting mass, mix and set aside for half an hour so that the flakes swell;
· Mash curd into a homogeneous mass with a spoon or rub through a sieve;
· Add the curd to the other ingredients and mix;
· Form cookies in the form of small balls and send them to the oven heated to 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
Recipe 5. Soft Oatmeal Cookies: On Banana Yogurt
Ingredients
· Oatmeal - glass;
· one egg;
· Natural yogurt - half a cup;
· Regular or cane sugar - one third of a glass;
· Wheat flour - one third of a glass;
· Soda - half a teaspoon;
· A half of a very ripe (spotted) banana.
Cooking
· Extinguish soda in yogurt;
· Place a sliced banana in a blender bowl and turn it into a puree;
· Combine fruit, yogurt, egg and sugar, mix well;
· Add oatmeal, stir and set aside the dishes for 10-15 minutes; · Add flour to other products in small portions, knead the dough;
· Spoon the dough on a baking sheet, put in the oven and bake the cookies for about 13-17 minutes at 180 degrees.
Recipe 6. Soft Oatmeal Cookies: Madeleine
Ingredients
· Wheat flour - 1/3 cup;
· 3 eggs;
· Butter - half a pack;
· Oatmeal - two thirds of a glass;
· Cane sugar - half a cup;
· Baking powder - a teaspoon.
Cooking
· Place the saucepan on the stove, melt the butter in it and remove the dishes from the heat, let them cool down;
· Add sugar and egg to butter and mix;
· Combine the baking powder with flour and gradually add it to other products;
· Knead the dough, liquid enough to pour it with a spoon;
· Baking tins should be necessarily small and in the form of shells - in other Madeleines they do not bake. If they are not silicone, lubricate them with oil;
· Fill the molds for 2/3 with dough and put in the heat of the oven for 12 minutes, bake at 180 degrees.
Recipe 7. Soft oatmeal cookies: on kefir with blueberries
Ingredients
· Kefir - glass;
· Oatmeal - a glass;
· Vegetable oil - two tablespoons;
· Soda - half a teaspoon;
· Wheat flour - a glass and a quarter;
· Sugar - two thirds of a glass;
· one egg;
· Dried blueberries (can be replaced by any others) - 4-5 tablespoons.
Cooking
· Extinguish the soda with kefir and add oatmeal into it, set aside a bowl for 10 minutes;
· Add to the dishes with kefir and oatmeal all other products, except for flour, mix;
· At the very least, add flour in pieces and knead dough of medium thickness;
· Form flattened large balls out of it and put them to bake for 15-20 minutes in an oven heated to 180 degrees.
Recipe 8. Soft oatmeal cookies: cottage cheese and zucchini
Ingredients
· Fresh zucchini - 150 g;
· Low fat cottage cheese - a pack;
· Sour cream - 2-3 tablespoons;
· Wheat flour - two thirds of a glass;
· Oatmeal - two thirds of a glass;
· one egg;
· Soda - half a teaspoon;
· Granulated sugar - a tablespoon;
· Salt - pinch.
Cooking
· Extinguish soda in sour cream and mix it with curd;
· Squash zucchini on a coarse grater;
· Break to the curd egg, salt and sugar, mix;
· Add grated zucchini, followed by oatmeal, stir everything and set aside for 15 minutes;
· Add flour to the ingredients and knead the dough;
· Using a spoon, place the cookies on a baking sheet, put in an oven heated to 180 degrees and wait until it is ready in 20 minutes.
Recipe 9. Soft oatmeal cookies: cheese
Ingredients
· Wheat flour - two thirds of a glass;
· Oatmeal - one third of a glass;
· Cheese - 180 g;
· Sugar - a tablespoon;
· Salt - one third of a teaspoon;
· Sour cream - two tablespoons;
· Butter - one third of a pack;
· one egg;
· Baking powder - a teaspoon.
Cooking
· Grate cheese on a coarse grater;
· Combine flour and baking powder, add salt;
· Spread soft butter with sugar and eggs, add sour cream;
· Mix all the ingredients, including cheese and, covered the dishes with a film, remove the dough for half an hour to stand in the warm kitchen;
· Form round flat cookies and put them in the oven heated to 180 degrees - in 15 minutes they will be ready.
Soft Oatmeal Cookies - Tips and Tricks
· Opinions differ on whether it is worth taking instant oatmeal or oatmeal flakes for soft oatmeal cookies. The choice may vary, depending on the recipe, personal taste;
· In the absence of a blender, oatmeal is crushed, passing through a meat grinder;
· Many people believe that oatmeal cookies will be of better quality, if after kneading the dough you set aside “rest” for 10 to 60 minutes, and during this time oatmeal, if it was taken in the form of flakes (even if ground), but not flour, will absorb moisture and swell, due to which the cookies will keep their shape better, and will also be baked evenly; · One of the secrets of tenderness oatmeal cookies - sifting wheat flour (if present in the recipe);
· The dough for any soft biscuits cannot be kneaded for too long, knead as much as you need to mix the ingredients;
· So that the dough does not stick strongly to the hands or dishes when forming cookies, periodically moisten fingers or a spoon with water;
· To prevent cookies from sticking to the baking sheet, it is recommended to cover it with baking paper or lubricate with vegetable oil;
· In order not to spoil the biscuits while it is being baked, never open the oven door;
· Oatmeal cookies risk getting dry and crunchy (and not at all soft) if, firstly, the cookies are formed too small and thin, and secondly, if they are baked for too long;
· How soft the oatmeal cookies are made can be judged only after it has cooled, because it is always soft while warm;
· It is possible to preserve the additional softness of the delicacy by cooling freshly baked cookies on a dish under a towel or in a container under the lid closed.
