Iced Oatmeal Cookies
A soft, chewy old-fashioned cookie that is packed with oatmeal and cinnamon and topped with a coffee-spiked cinnamon icing.
Equipment
- cookie sheets
- silicone baking mat or parchment paper
- mixer
- medium sized cookie scoop or tablespoon
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 and 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 3 cups old fashioned oats
Icing
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tbsp butter, unsalted and softened
- 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp freshly brewed coffee, slightly cooled
Instructions
For the Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F. Place oven rack in middle of oven.
- Line baking sheets with silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
- Using mixer, cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy, around 2 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time. Then, add vanilla.
- Sift or whisk the baking soda, salt, flour and cinnamon together.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to wet mixture, in 3 different additions.
- Fold in oats by hand.
- Using a medium-sized cookie scoop or table spoon, scoop dough onto cookie sheet.
- Bake cookies 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges.
- Remove cookie sheets from oven; allow cookies to cool on sheets 1-2 minutes before moving to wire rack to cool.
- Drizzle cookies with icing and allow icing to harden before storing cookies.
For the Icing
- Sift or whisk powdered sugar and cinnamon together in large bowl.
- Slowly whisk in coffee and butter; whisk until smooth and no lumps remain.
- Drizzle onto cooled cookies (cookies can still be slightly warm while icing).
Notes
- You can ice the cookies while they are still warm.
- This dough freezes well and will keep up to 3 months frozen.
- You can also bake the cookies ahead of time and ice them later.
- Store iced cookies in an airtight container for up to 72 hours.
- Freeze un-iced cookies for 4-6 weeks and iced cookies for up to 4 weeks.
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