Try these Freezer Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for dessert. The cookie dough is also great to freeze as individual cookies and pop a few in the oven whenever a craving strikes!
Hi Friends!
Today seemed like a good day to talk about cookies. But then again, really what day isn’t?! Ever since I mentioned in my 15 Creative Ways To Use Ice Cube Trays post that you could freeze cookie dough, I’ve been thinking about how I need to stock my freezer with some! So, I set out to create a recipe that would freeze well, giving me the option to make a batch, freeze the dough as individual cookies and then just pop a few out at a time and bake them!
I decided to change things up from traditional chocolate chip and go the oatmeal raisin route. Funny story about these- I thought it would be kinda fun to make these slice and bake so I originally froze the dough in a log. But when I sliced a few off to bake, the oats looked really weird, kinda like worms…and I decided that was not the best option. See below:
See what I mean? Gross. Anyways, to fix things I just let the dough thaw a bit, scooped into balls with a cookie scoop and tried them that way- perfection.
Here’s the recipe:
PrintFreezer Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
A classic cookie recipe that’s perfect for freezing as individual cookies and then baking a whole batch or just a few as needed!
- Yield: 2 1x
Ingredients
- 6 Tbsp butter, melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup nut butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1.5 cup rolled oats
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 cup raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the butter, sugar, nut butter, egg and vanilla in a bowl and stir until well mixed.
- Add the flour, oats, baking soda and cinnamon and stir until just combined.
- Stir in the raisins.
- Using a cooke scoop, or spoon, scoop onto cookie sheet (or plate) and freeze for at least 2 hours.
- If cooking immediately, remove and bake at 350 degrees for 12-14 minutes. If you want slightly flatter cookies, flatten with a fork halfway through.
- If freezing for later, place dough balls in a tupperware container and store in the freezer. When ready to bake, pull out however many you want and bake as directed above.
I chose to use a little less butter and add some peanut butter to mine. If you’re not into nut butter, you could just skip that and add another 2 Tbsp of butter.
These are definitely going on my list of things to make to stock the freezer before baby bean arrives!
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–Lindsay–
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‘if you’re not into nut butter’. Silly remark, Linds. You’re pictures are amazing!
thanks friend!
Every day is a good day to talk/eat cookies – your recipe looks fab, thank you so much for this. Another thing to go on my Sunday Prep list.
woohoo! enjoy!
I agree that everyday is a good day if you eat and chat about cookies. These look excellent and thank you for sharing.
Love the idea of freezing a batch to make them individually. We have a hard time at this house when mama makes cookies. They last less than a day. This is the perfect solution. I may have to add chocolate chips to your oatmeal cookies though. That wouldn’t be a bad thing, right?
definitely not a bad thing!
i don’t think these would make it to the freezer. Or even stay there long… ya i’m the cookie dough freak!
just means you gotta make more!
Yum! And uhhh I would totally eat the raw cookie dough lol
haha go for it!
These look delicious! So perfect for cookie cravings!
yes indeedy 🙂 enjoy!
Love these and love the idea of making them ahead and stocking the freezer to be able to make them in a pinch when unexpected guests come over!
yes! perfect for company!
Thanks for a new recipe to try! Every time I make cookie dough and freeze it…I have to hide it bc if my hub discovers it…it will be gone SO fast haha. Looks like it would definitely happen with these. Take care!
haha, hide away!
MMMMM I’ve been seriously craving cookies lately. I bet these would be perfect for kiddos too (sharing with my sis).
perfection! i love that you can bake just a couple if that’s all you want!
yummm! these look delcious.
Yum I love some good oatmeal raisin cookies! And ew I would have never thought worms until you said that! 😛
haha sorry for the visual 🙂
Freezing the dough in a log sounds like a great idea and it totally resembles the cookie dough you buy in the store. It is too bad that the results weren’t as great as you hoped 🙁 BUT, I’m sure they still tasted great! 😉
I think shaping into a log would work perfectly for any other cookies – chocolate chip, peanut butter etc so it’s on my list to try!
I just pinned these… my boss is pregnant and I am definitely going to make these for her! Love this idea (as usual!)
perfect gift!! happy baking!
Love this recipe! Definitely giving it a try … and trying some other flavor combinations too!
woohoo! Hope you love them!
Loooove oatmeal cookies! Especially with butterscotch 🙂
ohhhh yes. oatmeal scotchies are my fav!
Haha, Lindsay, the EXACT same thing happened to me before when I tried to cut into frozen oatmeal cookie dough! I would love a package of these in the mail!
haha that’s so funny! Glad i’m not the only one 🙂
mmmm…worm cookies. I think the kids would dig.
Oh, hit with the kids for sure!
That’s so weird…I wonder why the oats would do that! (thinking back to my food science class days…) These look really good!
Thanks lauren, once I got the more appetizing shape figured out we were good to go! 🙂
Yum! Would it be okay to swap coconut oil for the butter?
I’m sure it would work. It might change the texture but would probably still taste good. I haven’t done a lot of baking with coconut oil but I think it would make them flatter?
These look great!
Yummm!
COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These sound amazing. Any suggestions on how to make the gluten free? I’m newly GF and still trying to figure out proper substitutions!
I’m not a gluten-free expert. I think they make gluten-free all purpose flour you could sub for the wheat flour and get some gluten-free oats!
These look great – I might try these with some mashed up banana (because I love banana oatmeal cookies). Love the freezer idea because you can just make a few at a time instead of trying to figure out what to do with 20 cookies at once!
i think they’d be great with banana. i’d make them that way but hubby is not a banana fan!