Nothing smells better than a batch of freshly cooked oatmeal and raisin cookies cooling in the kitchen.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of soft butter
• 1 cup of soft brown sugar
• 1/2 cup golden sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon cloves
• 1 pinch of nutmeg
• 1 1/2 cups cake flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups of old fashioned oats
• 1 cup of raisins

Method

1. preheat the oven to 170degrees
2. cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
3. add the eggs to the butter/sugar mixture one by one - beating the mixture between each egg.
4. add the vanilla essence.
5. In a separate bowl, mix flour, bicarb, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, salt.
6. add flour mixture slowly to wet mixture - I use a spatula for this as it creates less mess than the electric beater.
7. once flour and wet mixture are combined add in the oats and raisins (definately use a spatula for this part)
8. grease a baking sheet, roll mixture into balls (about the size of a 50p coin) and place on baking sheet with about 5cms between each ball.
9. bake for 10-12minutes
10. remove from the oven and leave on the baking sheet for 5minutes before transferring over to cooling rack.
11. Repeat steps 8-10 until mixture is finished.
12. Taste test a cookie - you earned it!