ELR14: Chewy Oatmeal Cookies with Cinnamon Buttercream

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Chewy Oatmeal Cookies with Cinnamon Buttercream IMG_4228 IMG_4252 IMG_4282

Last week was New Years, and on the second day of the new calendar – I started on my journey of cooking through Jenna’s recipe journal on Eat Live Run.

I hung out with a friend and her daughters for a play date, convo day mixed with yummy cookies. Jenna’s recipes give me creativity and allows me to try  new foods and cooking techniques.  It will definitely be a culinary adventure this year.

These oatmeal cookies were small, thick and chewy.  I added more milk and some cinnamon to the buttercream but that was the only alteration to her recipe.  We had fun and they were all gone in two days.

 

Chewy Oatmeal Cookies with Cinnamon Buttercream
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Serves: 12
 
Delicious sandwich cookie
Ingredients
  • 1 stick unsalted butter, softened
  • ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1½ cup old-fashioned oats
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • For filling:
  • 1 stick butter, unsalted, softened
  • 3 cup powdered sugar
  • 4 tsp milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375.
  2. Grease two cookie sheets and set aside
  3. Cream wet ingredients for cookies.
  4. Combine dry ingredients.
  5. Mix wet and dry.
  6. Form 24 hopefully uniform cookies
  7. Bake for 8 minutes.
  8. Let cool completely
  9. Mix all ingredients together for the filling. Place filling in between two cookies.
  10. Eat!

Overnight Maple Cranberry Steel-Cut Oats

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This has been, and will be, my breakfast. My friend, Tasya, gave me the recipe, so I made it while my parents were here, and am still enjoying it. I doubled the recipe because I have a 6 qt crockpot, but for all you 2-4 qt crockpot peeps, this recipe is as is.

1 1/2 cups steel-cut oats (Irish oats, McCann’s, etc)
4 3/4 cups water
3/4 cup maple syrup (not pancake syrup, this is much less flavorful and more watery than real maple syrup)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c dried cranberries
1 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. salt

Stir together in crockpot, turn on low for 6-7 hours. Enjoy. I topped mine with cool whip and/or milk. Other additives would be walnuts, chopped dried apples, dried pears…