36 Reviews of Soft Batch Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

From: Allie

On Sep 10, 2001

My husband is an avid oatmeal cookie fan. I have tried many recipes over the past 40 years of marriage and although he ate most of them - he commented highly on this one. It is very good. I made a double batch and instead of adding 2 pkgs of vanilla instant pudding, I used one vanilla and one butterscotch. It gave it more of a maple flavoring. VERY GOOD!

From: Leonard Cohen

On Mar 5, 2002

Tom, my man - I have several things to say: (1) Your recipe has some shortcomings - (a) you don't say how long to bake them (b) you don't say how thick they should be (c) you don't list a gas oven temperature (2) You must have been making some TINY cookies to get 60 of them out of these ingredients! (3) They were overlapping one another when they were done - you should state how far apart they should be while in the oven. I was not aware that they would expand. Despite all of that, and with some pure guesswork on my part, they tasted wonderful. I would have given you 5 stars, but you made me do too much thinking and guessing, so I kept a couple of the stars for myself!

From: SueZmann

On Dec 17, 2002

I have made this recipe for years, it was on a box of instant pudding many years ago. I use the french vanilla instant pudding, and I soak the raisins in hot water for about 10 minutes, then let them drain in a colander, I also add a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice. This is the favorite cookie in my family. Make small cookies, add more raisins if you like to. They go fast.

From: ewells

On Aug 28, 2008

Perfect! The best oatmeal raisin cookies I've ever eaten. The raisins are plump and moist, the edges of the cookies are slightly crisp yet the centers remain soft. Thanks for a great recipe, Tom!

From: teresa

On Dec 31, 2001

Very good recipe this is the first time I have ever made oatmeal rasin cookies and everyone loved them they continued to stay soft and chewy my sister loves oatmeal rasin cookies and she said this was the best that she ever tasted.....thanks

From: FlaBeachBuns

On Nov 20, 2005

Very nice soft cookie, I did Add about 1/2 Cup of chopped walnuts to the recipe and soaked the raisins in hot water for 30 minutes before adding to the recipe.I added a dash of cinnamon too. This is now our favorite cookie recipe!

From: Bitter Moon

On Sep 16, 2007

I made these with chocolate pudding instead of vanilla and chocolate chips instead of raisins. It turned out really good although next time I wont put as much sugar in it. It took me a while to figure out how long to cook them since the time and size was not listed. But I ended up with large teaspoonfuls cooked for 9 minutes. They are great!

From: Kristi Spoon

On Dec 29, 2002

I made these cookies for my dad who lives 2000 miles away and when he got them the entire family wanted tehm and they didn't leave many for him. These are very good. And I'm not much of an oatmeal cookie fan.

From: Southern California Girl

On Feb 21, 2009

We really liked these the first day!! (as with MOST cookies--right??) I then stored in Tupperware, and cookies softened more and almost stuck together. Did not like that.though.

From: Momo'2

On Sep 26, 2009

My father loves it when I cook for him. He plows our yard for us all winter long and since he refuses pay I try to bake something when it snows so I can give him a tray when he is plowing to take home. After just one cookie he was in love he said these tasted quite similar to a cookie that his grandmother made for him when he was a boy and they where his favorites. so thank you so much for this post It is now a treasured recipe for my family. And a winter staple so I always have them when a sudden storm pops up.