Old Fashioned Oat Lace Cookies

Dec 12, 2014 in baking, cookies, family recipes, christmas, christmas cookies, holiday, oats. Read the original on: American Heritage Cooking

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12 Days of Christmas Cookies

A beautiful, delicate oat cookie with hints of caramel and an irresistible crunch! Crispy and light as air, these cookies are sure to delight.

Anticipation.

Every year I anticipated the arrival of these Old Fashioned Oat Lace Cookies. One of my parentsâ€™ friends would send a little tin filled with these delicate, crunchy, sweet cookies, and every year I would savor each and every one!

They are crispy and light as air with notes of homemade caramel!

These Old Fashioned Oat Lace Cookies are more involved than they seem:Â The batter is easy to pull together but you drop it by the Â½ teaspoon-full and then you have to watch them cook like a hawk! They will burn in 15 seconds.

I burned about half of my cookies. Slow on the uptake? Maybe.

Or maybe because I was trying to make these!

The sugar caramelizes and produces a magical flavor and the oats provide texture. There is no â€œoatyâ€ flavor just sugary, caramelized crunch yumminess!

You will learn from my mistakes. Do not multitask, listen to your nose and watch those cookies, and you will have 10Â dozen beautiful lace cookies! {And your kitchen will smell amazing!}

My husband is a more recent addition to Lace Cookie Mania: My mom keeps all her sweets and chocolates in the basement freezer (for the obvious reason) and my husband knows just where to look when he wants a sweet treat! Last year he stumbled upon these cookies and he was hooked!

Full Disclosure: I ate enough lace cookies to make a grown man feel sick and then mailed off the remainingÂ perfect ones to friends and family. Letâ€™s just say they received lace cookie crumbs. Eh. Better luck next year.

And then I stashed the burnt ones in my freezer because I like my caramel just on the edge of burnt, and these caramelized cookies hit the spot when frozen!

Shhh. Donâ€™t tell my husband!

These Old Fashioned Oat Lace CookiesÂ are for the fourthÂ day of myÂ 12 Days of Christmas Cookies.Â You wonâ€™t want to miss theÂ Raspberry Linzer Cookies, Holiday Bark orÂ Cherry Pecan Cookies!

Old Fashioned Oat Lace Cookies

Prep Time: 11 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Yield: 10 dozen

A delicate oat cookie with hints of caramel and an irresistible crunch!

Ingredients

2 cups rolled oats
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
Â½ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup melted butter (hot, not cooled)
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 325Â° and line several baking sheets with aluminum foil (shiny side up).
I have very hearty rolled oats and so I processed mine in the food processor just to break them down some.
Mix oats, flour, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Pour very hot melted butter over the flour mixture and stir until the butter has coated everything and the sugar has dissolved. Add the eggs and vanilla; stir well.
Drop Â½ teaspoons of the batter 2 inches apart on ungreased foil lined sheets.
Bake 1 sheet at a time 10-12 minutes, rotating sheet halfway through, until they turn a golden brown. Let cool on pan on a wire rack.
When cool they will peal effortlessly off the foil!
Store in an airtight container and donâ€™t forget to hide a secret stash for you! You earned it!

Notes:

As I mentioned in the post, my mom and I store these cookies in the freezer! They are excellent at room temperature and even more excellent frozen! Taste and decide for yourself!

Recipe courtesy of Mrs. R. Ledford.

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