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If you are looking for a recipe to make soft oatmeal cookies that are delicately crisp around the edges but nice and soft on the inside, this is it. These thick oatmeal cookies with a toffee-like flavor are easy to make using a mixing bowl and spoon. No electric mixer is needed! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I started experimenting with this recipe, I was looking to create a cookie that was really packed with oatmeal flavor, was soft in the middle and slightly crispy around the edges, and remained thick after baking.

I experimented by making eight different batches of oatmeal cookies, starting with the recipe I used over on my Hungry Happenings blog to make Spider Infested Oatmeal Raisin Cookies for Halloween<\/a> (delicious, but definitely crispy and chewy, not soft) before I found the perfect recipe to make soft oatmeal cookies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, I found that tweaking the Classic Chewy Oatmeal Cookies recipe from America's Test Kitchen gave me what I was looking for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their recipe calls for using 1 part melted butter (saturated fat) and 3 parts vegetable oil (unsaturated fat) in order to give the cookies a soft and chewy texture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have not found too many oatmeal cookie recipes that use oil, so I was skeptical at first but after baking a batch of the cookies, I realized this unusual ingredient does work to keep the cookies from being crispy or dry throughout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cookies had a very strong oat flavor but didn't have that buttery toffee-like flavor that I really wanted in my cookies, so I altered the ratio of butter to vegetable oil until I got the flavor profile that I desired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to get a thick soft cookie?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The oatmeal cookie recipe from ATK produced flat cookies that were crispy around the edges and chewy in the middle but I wanted these cookies to be thick instead of flat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ensure the cookies would not flatten out too much when baked, I could have added more flour, but that would have given them a cakey texture, so instead, I added \u00bd cup of additional oats. It worked perfectly to keep my cookies nice and thick plus it intensified the oaty flavor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My final tweak was to increase the amount of cinnamon in the recipe to \u00be teaspoon so the cookies had a nice spice flavor. If you prefer a cookie with less spice, reduce the cinnamon to \u00bc teaspoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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