Delightfully delicate and chewy, these golden brown butterscotch cookies are exploding with oats and butterscotch chips! A contact of orange zest and a drizzle of molasses take this from a very good recipe to an excellent recipe! No chilling required, so preheat your oven to 350 levels and leap to the recipe!

Legendary Butterscotch Oatmeal CookiesÂ
We’re getting our Christmas tree tomorrow morning! Really, I ought to say we’re chopping down our Christmas tree tomorrow morning. We discovered an lovely little Christmas tree farm not removed from our residence, and so they give you gloves, an axe, and even scorching cocoa and free sweet canes!
I’ve so many fond reminiscences of visiting Christmas tree farms as baby, so I’m very excited to proceed this custom as an grownup. Query: Are you getting a tree this yr?Â
In preparation for our huge day on the Christmas tree farm, I baked our favourite butterscotch oatmeal cookies! AKA oatmeal scotchies! I selected this recipe as a result of it’s all the time a crowd pleaser! And since it makes a TON of cookies! So there’s loads to share with the homeowners of the farm and anybody else who needs one!
As a result of the one factor higher than cocoa… is cocoa AND cookies. Am I proper?
Plus, there’s no such factor as too many cookies. Particularly within the month of December! It’s vacation legislation… or one thing like that.

Butterscotch Cookies: The ElementsÂ
- All-Function Flour: I don’t counsel subbing some other number of flour.Â
- Spices:Â Floor cinnamon and cardamom are elective, however add pleasant taste!Â
- Baking Soda:Â Helps the dough balls unfold within the oven.Â
- Salt:Â I counsel superb sea salt for the cookie dough, however you may add some flaky sea salt to the highest of the baked cookies if desired.Â
- Butter:Â Salted or unsalted butter will work superb on this butterscotch cookie recipe!Â
- Sugars:Â A combo of sunshine brown sugar and white sugar (granulated sugar) sweeten and add texture to those cookies.Â
- Orange: I like utilizing orange zest and orange extract. However if you happen to don’t have both readily available, you may go away it out.
- Vanilla Extract: Provides wealthy vanilla taste.
- Eggs: Use giant eggs and convey them to room temperature.
- Molasses:Â Use common molasses not blackstrap molasses.
- Outdated-Original Oats: Use old school oats not fast oats.
- Butterscotch Chips: Add a candy taste, however will be changed with common chocolate chips if wanted.


The place to Discover Butterscotch Chips
Our absolute favourite butterscotch chips are from Guittard and you should purchase them on-line right here. I like these ones as a result of they’ve an excellent taste and soften higher than the opposite manufacturers I’ve tried. That stated, Nestle Butterscotch Morsels are less expensive and can do the job simply superb!Â
And since I do know somebody will ask: sure, you may completely simply use chocolate chips as an alternative! But in addition, you’ll now not be making oatmeal scotchies. So I’d simply counsel making my chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies as an alternative. However you do you 😉

Fast Oats vs Outdated-Original Oats
This recipe requires old school oats, often known as rolled oats. Fast oats, aka immediate oats, are NOT really useful. It’s because fast oats take in much more moisture and virtually work like flour. So they’ll yield cakey cookies which can be a lot much less chewy.
I counsel stocking up on old school oats, as a result of if you happen to want fast oats, you may all the time use a blender to pulse them down. However sadly, you don’t have that choice with immediate oats since they’re already so superb.

Secrets and techniques to Good Oatmeal Scotchies
- Be certain that your butter and eggs are each at room temperature earlier than you start baking! So you should definitely set them out about 20 minutes earlier than you begin baking.
- To correctly beat the butter and sugar, you’ll want an electrical mixer! You should use a big bowl and a handheld mixer or a stand mixer that’s fitted with a paddle attachment. Sadly I don’t suggest attempting this recipe with out a type of mixer choices.
- Begin off simply beating the butter, then progressively add within the white sugar and brown sugar. You wish to beat till the combination is fluffy – and scrape the underside of the blending bowl to make sure even mixing.
- Earlier than you add the eggs, toss within the orange zest, orange extract, and vanilla and beat till properly mixed. Including the components at this stage enhances their taste.
- When you add the dry components (flour, baking soda, and so on), combine solely till mixed. I wish to to show my mixer off and use a robust spatula or picket spoon to do that. That method I’ve extra management. You don’t wish to over-mix right here or your butterscotch cookies will likely be cakey.
- Have your your baking sheets lined with parchment paper earlier than you start baking. Then you may merely roll the dough balls (3 Tablespoon sized balls) and bake.Â
- These cookies bake in about 12 minutes, or till the sides are golden brown. The center ought to nonetheless be a bit delicate.
Though I’m a giant fan of heat cookies, I do discover these are greatest when allowed to chill utterly. So I counsel putting the baking tray on prime of a wire rack to chill utterly for at the very least half-hour earlier than digging in!
