Old Fashioned Soft and Chewy Oatmeal Cookies

Buttery soft, old-fashioned vanilla oatmeal cookies that melt in your mouth! Simply spiced with a little nutmeg, these are just like grandma used to make.

Sometimes, the simplest recipe can be the hardest to find. That’s why, today I decided to help you solve your longtime search for the ultimate old-fashioned oatmeal cookie. You know the one, flat and buttery, with crisp edges and a soft, chewy texture. And that vanilla aroma as they bake! Oh, the right oatmeal cookie is just so good.

I’ve baked dozens of batches of oatmeal cookies, but no more than I have in the past few weeks. I had a couple close successes, a few failures, and then I pulled these out of the oven, and the clouds parted. I wasted no time grabbing a glass of milk and plucking one hot off the pan. And then another one.

Even my meh-about-oatmeal hubby couldn’t resist a short stack of these scrumptious cookies!�

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