Maple Oatmeal Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Maple Oatmeal Cookies

These Maple Oatmeal Cookies are full of rolled oats and real maple syrup for a warm and comforting cookie that is slightly crispy on the edges and soft in the middle.

Prep Time10

Cook Time9

Total Time19

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 108kcal

Author: Lauren Skardal

Ingredients

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup maple syrup not pancake syrup
½ cup brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon maple extract optional
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¾ cup all-purpose flour (120 grams)
2 cups rolled oats

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the softened butter, maple syrup, and brown sugar.
Add the egg, vanilla extract, and maple extract (optional) and combine.
Add the cinnamon, salt, baking powder, baking soda, flour, and rolled oats and combine.
Drop 1 ½ tablespoons worth of dough per cookie onto a cookie sheet, roughly 9 cookies per baking sheet. Use your fingers (easiest) or the back of a clean spoon to flatten the cookies. Flattening the cookies before baking gives the cookies crispier edges.
If you decide not to flatten them, they will still taste great, but they will have a slightly more cake-like consistency.
Bake the cookies at 350°F for 9 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool for 2-3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool fully.

Notes

Maple Flavor: When baking with maple syrup, the flavor does not translate strongly into the finished dessert. It becomes a much more subtle flavor. For that reason, I add maple extract to the cookie dough to ensure that these Maple Oatmeal Cookies taste more strongly like maple.
Softened Butter: If your butter is not softened ahead of time, you can microwave the butter for 30 seconds at a time at 20 percent power until softened, flipping the butter over in between.
Cinnamon: It is helpful to use a high quality cinnamon. Low quality cinnamon has a big negative impact on taste. I recommend Ceylon cinnamon and I use a brand called Simply Organic which can be found at Whole Foods and some specialty grocery stores.
Flattening the Cookies: Flattening the cookies helps the cookies to spread, which gives them slightly crispy edges and a chewy center. If you do not flatten the cookies slightly before baking they will have a chewy-to-cake-like consistency.

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