Cooking on deadline: Big Butterscotchy Oatmeal Cookies are memorable holiday treat

Thursday, November 23, 2017

I haven't been consistently happy with my oatmeal cookie recipe for a while. Sometimes they turn out perfectly -- fairly flat, chewy and moist in the middle, with crinkly, caramelized edges (not cakey or rounded) and a butterscotch-esque flavor. Other times, they don't follow orders, staying too puffed, or becoming a little dry and less damply dense than I crave.

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