Totally Oatmeal Scotchies
{cue Cookie Monster voice}
Me love oatmeal.
Me love giant cookie. (yeah, that test batch was a little rough)
Me love encouragement from kindergartner.
Me love second chances.
That lunchbox worthy.
Me love chewy, lacy, crispy-edged butterscotch oatmeal cookies.
Me really do.
And ****scene****.
{me throat hurt now}
Totally Oatmeal Scotchies
Makes 18 monster cookies
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- 1 c. old-fashioned oats (gluten free, if desired)
- 1 c. oat flour (or make your own by grinding oats, gluten free, if desired)
- 1/2 t. baking soda
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1/2 t. cinnamon
- 1/3 c. packed brown sugar
- 1/2 c. organic sugar or sucanat or stevia baking blend
- 5 T. non-dairy margarine or organic butter, softened
- 1 t. vanilla extract
- 1 large organic egg or flax egg (3 T. water + 1 T. ground flax, whisked)
- 1/2 c. butterscotch chips*
*I’ve not come across dairy free butterscotch chips, so if you are looking for a dairy free alternative, try dark chocolate chips or even raisins, apricots or another dried fruit, if you wish.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine oats, oat flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Place sugars and margarine or butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 5 minutes). Add vanilla and egg or flax egg; beat well. Add flour mixture; beat just until combined. Stir in butterscotch chips.
Drop dough by spoonfuls several inches apart ona baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350° for 10-14 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on pans for at least a minute. Finish cooling completely on wire racks.
Oatmeal scotchies were my favorite cookie when I was little! Had totally forgotten about them. Thanks for the reminder!
Mine too! My moms were the best.
Butterscotch cookies are the best. The only problem is that I end up eating the butterscotch chips that dont actually make it IN the cookies. I am NOT to be trusted with these….
I am the same way. An open bag is dangerous!
Same here! Why are they so good??
I always think chocolate is my weakness…but butterscotch chips are like crack!
You’re cookies look scrumptious Sarah! I was laughing the whole way through your post. You are hysterical; )
And that should say your, not you’re; )
I’m not picky when it comes to compliment grammar. Thanks, Julie.
Too funny, you’re awesome! And these look amazing!
They are! (if I do say so myself)
Mmmmmmmm. Cookies! These look awesome. They are next on my list. Thanks for always sharing awesome recipes.
Mmmmmmm, these look yummy!!!!!
Me throat hurt now too.
Me need cookies STAT.
I bet you’ve got that voice down. I need to brush up.
Oatmeal scotchies were my FAVORITE cookies when I worked at Great Harvest. I would destroy two the size of my face on my drive home from work. Pure bliss.
They make them at your GH?!? Not ours. But the texture of these is just like their cookies.Hi Mama Pea!
Wow! These look great!!
I know you list an option to use a flax egg which I am interested in using. Have you tested out your recipes with the flax-egg when you list that option? Because I’ve heard that sometimes it does work. Thank you so much!!
By the way, first semester of law school went great!! I received an A in my LAWS class and the Witkin award for highest grade in LAWS
very exciting!! (I just had to share the news lol)
Congrats! I have made these both ways and it does work!
These look perfect! I love a good oatmeal cookie and this sounds heavenly.
Butterscotch chips are fabulous in oatmeal cookies. I don’t think I’ve had them in years!! That has to be changed. Such a fun treat!
I made carrot cake muffins yesterday with Stevie blend
I love that stuff. Oatmeal cookies are one of my favorite too so I’ll be book marking this recipe !
Those sound great, Sara!
Read the entire thing with Cookie Monster’s voice in my head. Hilarious.
Ohhhh….I used to make Oatmeal Scotchies for my inlaws waaaay back in the early days of my marriage. I like your version better. Maybe it is time to send them some cookies…it has been YEARS.
Me like! (oh and that big pan that just oozed together…ain’t nothing wrong with that either!)
We ate ‘em and didn’t die!
Just curious – when you do the nutritional analysis, which ingredients do you use? Thank you, they do look yummy. Could they count as a “breakfast cookie?”
For these, I calculated using butter, sugar and egg.
I miss the cookie monster! These sound delicious. I cup of coffee and one of these guys and I’m good to start my day!
How about three cups of coffee and four cookies? Just curious.
Hi Sarah, How do you get these to stay together? I’ve found that whenever I make oat-flour cookies or muffins (i.e. no wheat, just oat flour), they tend to fall apart.
Thanks!
I’m not sure, sorry. They just worked!
My son would love these in his lunch!
The Pangea Vegan Store online sells vegan butterschotch chips!
http://www.veganstore.com/product/vegan-butterscotch-chips/vegan-marshmallows-and-other-sweets
Thanks, Katie!
Haha, I’ve totally had that oatmeal cookie error before! (I forgot the flour…) So, I crumbled it all up and called it granola. I’m either resourceful or insane. Maybe both.
Glad your second chance turned out better, because these look great!
These look AHH-MAZING but…im still craving that lasagna soup!! haha
So, I know you’re not supposed to let your kids even look at a TV screen until they’re two. But what if – hypothetically – my one and a half year old daughter already knows how to talk like cookie monster? What happens then?
Make more cookies for her and encourage it?
That’s what I thought.
I asked my pediatrician about this and she said as long as she’s not singing the COPS theme song, you’re good.
Ahhhh these look amazing. I am a huge sucker for all things oatmeal!
I just made these the other day! Ok, recipe a bit different, but I made them! Tasty!
The Mega-Cookie happened to me last weekend on a batch I used a silpat for vs parchment ones. Did you end up using it when you made the successful batch of this kind? I’m wondering if that might be the culprit for my issue (or maybe I was just scoop happy on the silpat more so than the parchment?) Regardless, I love this cookie idea. I don’t bake with butterscotch nearly enough but I really do love it!
I used parchment for the second batch and it certainly was an improvement!
All I could think about during this post was cookie monster, so then of course I was hungry for cookies, I see some oatmeal ones coming up in my future.
These look incredible! We sell some oatmeal scotchies at work and while I would never eat them because 1-they’d make me sick and 2-they’re like 600 calories a piece (no joke!), these look delicious and like a better alternative!
MY FAVORITE COOKIE! sorry Cookie Monster….didn’t mean to yell…. family thought dinner was ready though
Okay, so I am taking the vegetables that were roasting in the oven for dinner OUT and replacing them with these cookies…I mean passing on vegetables and consuming numerous amounts of oatmeal and yummy butterscotch chips is okay isn’t it?
It’s all about balance
Hi,
How long can we keep this cookies ? If I make them tonight for tomorrow afternoon, will they be good ?
Thanks.
D.
Yes! They’ll be great for several days. They also freeze beautifully.
Mmmm – those look so good! And sound even better! {Especially when described in a Cookie Monster voice.}
Thank you for this terrific cookie recipe, Cookie Monster! I made these yesterday (used a real egg and real butter) with dark chocolate chips. I also toasted the whole oats just a wee bit (not the ones made into flour). They were just as you described, chewy, crispy, easypeasy! Wuv that wittle sticker, hee! Thanks for adding 1 to the cookie rotation, Ms. Monster!
Me happy you like.
Memories! I get my Vegan butterscotch chips from Vegan Essentials. Now I can do something else with them besides eating them by the handful!
Thanks!
Or do both. I won’t tell.
I made these last night, and today I brought them to my friend’s post-PhD defense party. They were a huge hit!! No one–including me–had heard of scotchies before. Thanks for this delicious recipe!
That’s great to hear. So glad you all liked them, Stephanie!
How do you think these cookies will taste if you add some coconut??
Insane. What a brilliant idea!
These look delicious. I LOVE oatmeal & butterscotch, so these are a favorite. We just use the regular butterscotch chips, but Gluten Free Gigi has a recipe for making dairy-free ones: http://www.glutenfreegigi.com/dairy-free-homemade-butterscotch-baking-chips/
Thank you for the link!
To the nacho cheese and pretzels I say, throw every last care alway, lets go to the mall…TODAY!!
Haha, you might be on your own there. I like the mall less than I like shopping (and I really don’t like shopping…)
Stupid Food Lion had milk free butterscotch chips and they were awesome and they changed to milk ones
Heavenly Homemaker has a home made recipe for butterscotch chips that good to me although I have not tried them yet. http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/homemade-butterscotch-baking-chips Store bought taste so artificial to me unless they are mixed with peanut butter!
Thanks for the link, Laura!
I made these with whole wheat flour (too lazy to get the blender down) and they turned out well, although yours looked softer, so I’d add a bit more butter and perhaps some milk next time for a chewier consistency. I loved that they weren’t too sweet and the cinnamon really stood out.
I am happy you enjoyed them, Ali!
I have made these TWICE since you posted the recipe! Mine turned out a lot thinner/crispier than yours. The first time, I made a double batch and stored the dough in the fridge between batches. The cookies got progressively better in texture. By the 3rd batch, they finally weren’t SUPER flat and crunchy! I was in a hurry the 2nd time I made them (and I used chocolate chips- butterscotch were WAY better) and I ended up with flat, crispy cookies again. I don’t mind crispy cookies, they were just a PAIN to get off of the pan. That was a long-winded way of saying next time, I’ll refrigerate the dough for a good 30min before baking! DELICIOUS!
Great tip, thanks, Holly!