Do you have a signature dish? I’m not sure I do but if I did, it would probably be frosted cookies. They seem to fly out of the cookie jar faster with a light coating of sweetness. Click on these links to see some of my favorite frosted cookie recipes from past posts: Soft Pumpkin Cookies with Browned Butter Icing, Pink Shortbread Cookies, and Soft Cinnamon Cookies with Browned Butter Icing
After thumbprints , these chewy, cinnamon-spiced and coffee iced oatmeal cookies are my husband’s favorite. Since I only do thumbprints at Christmas, he gets these more often than any other.
Out of the oven, they are rather crispy but soften somewhat within hours. Ice them with coffee flavored icing or try browned butter icing . Plain white powdered sugar icing is also tasty (replace coffee with milk or cream).
For variety, try adding raisins or dried cranberries. If you go that route, I recommend nixing the frosting. Frosting and raisins = lots of sweetness. However, my husband disagrees. And he is the authority. Sorta. On these cookies anyway.
By the way, they aren’t bad straight out of the freezer. At least that’s what the “authority” around here says. I’m not admitting to any such knowledge.
Chewy Oatmeal Cookies With Coffee Icing
Ingredients:
1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tablespoons honey
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups quick-cooking oats (not instant or old-fashioned–important for the right texture)
Directions:
First: Whip butter until smooth and creamy. Add sugar and continue beating until well mixed. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Second: Whisk together flour, cinnamon and baking soda. Add to butter mixture. Stir in oats.
Third: Drop onto cookie sheet by teaspoonfuls. They spread a good bit so leave plenty of room. Bake at 350 degrees for 6-8 minutes.
Coffee Flavored Powdered Sugar Glaze
Mix 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons black coffee (or milk if you prefer) and mix until smooth. You may need to add more liquid to make glaze spreadable.
Browned Butter Glaze is also delicious on these cookies.
Recipe adapted from Among Friends with Heart & Soul by Roxie Kelley and Friends.
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these are always a hit! you are right, they go fast!
I agree. When I think of my recipes of yours……….it’s always iced cookies.
I don’t know if that says more about you or me. I really love cookies.
You made a cookie one time that I still think about. It had orange zest. Not sure if the orange was in the cookie or icing, but I remember coming home and trying to duplicate it.
Looks delicious! I can have these anytime with a cup of hot mocha. Love the coffee icing.
I adore oatmeal cookies. These look absolutely delicious!
I LOVE a good oatmeal cookie! Icing? I’d not thought of that! Mmm!
I know, you’ll be shocked that I say this, but what about chocolate chips? Chocolate glaze?
Shocked?? LOL. Chocolate would be totally awesome on these cookies. I have another oatmeal cookie recipe to which I add chocolate chips but I like this one better. I’m going to try chocolate icing the next time I make these.
I love oatmeal cookies. I usually add raisins, but never thought to ice them instead. Love the first photo!
I have been on an oatmeal cookie quest lately, and I definitely want to try these oatmeal cookies. I think maybe I’ll have to frost 1/2 with the coffee glaze and the other 1/2 with the browned butter glaze — just to be sure I’ve tried all of the options.
I had to laugh about your hubs and the thumbprints. They’re my all-time favorite cookie, too, and I could never understand why my mom only made them at Christmas. Well, one of the first things I did when I moved into my college apartment was to make a batch of thumbprints in October. You know what? They didn’t taste as good. Now I’m convinced that there’s something about the Christmas season that makes thumbprints taste better.
These look amazing, I know what I am doing this Saturday
Tyler’s gonna LOVE them!
You are into oatmeal, smart lady. These cookies look so good, I think, I should bake them.
“Iced” cookies – now those harken back to cookies of old…. how wonderful. I must try some (sometime)… these look so wonderfully classic – and delicious!
Wow-coffee icing, I’d never thought of trying that before! I love making oatmeal cookies and this sounds like the perfect way to take them up a notch-thanks for sharing
I tried this recipe and it’s wonderful! But here’s the funny part:
The ingredient list calls for baking soda. But your instructions say baking POWDER.
And even though I’ve made these, and am getting ready to make them again, I have
NO idea which I used!!!!
Can you please set me straight on this? Many thanks for a great cookie recipe!!
cj
Hi. I’m from Portugal and sometimes it’s hard to find (outside the big cities) the stuff you talk about.
I’d love to try these cookies, but the oats that I bought are the ones to make breakfast, I think it’s the old-fashioned type.
Do I have to pre-cook it, add them as they are, or what?
By the way, loved to find your blog, I was just looking for a way to make homemade greek yogurt. It’s so interesting to find easy solutions to solve some issues around the kitchen