Apricot Raisin Five Spice Oatmeal Cookies. This is a very flavourful and fragrant twist on a traditional oatmeal raising cookie.
Originally published Oct 2009.
Spouse makes a wicked soft, chewy oatmeal cookie that has been previously featured on this blog.
This week she was experimenting with that recipe and came up with a real winner.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies with the addition of some Chinese Five Spice Powder and dried apricots.
I arrived home to the scent of these coming straight out of the oven. I only sustained a minor finger burn from snatching one off the hot cookie sheet!
It was still worth the pain though! 😉
The flavour profile if these makes them particularly suited to the Holiday season!
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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar firmly packed
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2egg
- 1 ¾ cup flour
- 1 tsp Chinese five spice powder
- ½ tsp freshly ground nutmeg
- Pinch salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3 cups large rolled oats
- 1 1/3 cup raisins
- 1 1./3 cup chopped dried apricots
- ½ cup chopped pecans cashews, macadamias, slivered almonds or walnuts (optional)
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugars together well. Add egg and vanilla and beat until light and fluffy.
- Sift together the flour, five spice powder, nutmeg, salt and baking soda
- Fold the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture.
- When the dry ingredients are almost incorporated, add the rolled oats, raisons, apricots and nuts.
- Chill the dough for about an hour before baking for best results.
- Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto a parchment lined cookie sheet about 2 ½ inches apart.
- Bake at 375 degrees for about 10 minutes.
- Do not over bake or your cookies will lose their chewy texture.
- Makes about 3 dozen cookies.