Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and packed with oat flour and ground cinnamon. My new favorite oatmeal cookie recipe!
I love oatmeal cookies and I love snickerdoodles and these cookies kind of taste like a cross between the two. But a little bit sneaky, since you grind the oats before adding them. And less work than snickerdoodles, because you don’t have to roll the dough in cinnamon and sugar – all the cinnamon just get mixed right in!
Ingredients in Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
2 cups rolled oats
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter, softened to room temperature
1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
How to make Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Preheat oven to 400°. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone mats.
In a food processor or blender, process the oats until finely ground. In a large bowl, combine the ground oats, all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, cinnamon, baking soda, cream of tartar and salt and set aside.
In another large bowl, beat the butter and shortening together for about 2 minutes with an electric mixer. Add sugar and beat for another minute. Add eggs and vanilla and beat for 2-3 more minutes.
Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Use a cookie scoop to scoop out the dough and place on prepared cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart. Bake for 8-9 minutes and cool for a couple minutes on cookie sheets before transferring the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
How to make the best oatmeal cookies
After trying out multiple oatmeal cookie recipes over many years, I have picked up several important tips for making the absolute BEST Oatmeal Cookies!
- Make sure that you have enough flour in the dough. If the dough is too sticky, you may need to add a little bit of flour.
- Spend a little extra time when you mix the butter and sugars. Creaming them together for 2-3 minutes will improve the consistency of your cookies.
- Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
- Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
- Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
- Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!
HOW DO YOU SOFTEN BUTTER TO ROOM TEMPERATURE?
The best way to soften butter is to set it out for a few hours before you make your cookies. Since most of us (or maybe just me!) aren’t that prepared or don’t think that far in advance, there are a few tricks to softening butter perfectly in just a matter of minutes.
My favorite way to soften butter is in the microwave. It’s definitely fast, but you do have to be very careful not to melt it. Just put the whole stick of butter in the microwave (as long as it isn’t wrapped in foil!) and microwave for about 6-7 seconds. If the butter is still really cold, try another 5-7 seconds and check it again. You may need a few intervals, and if the butter is starting to feel soft, you can shorten the final interval to just a few seconds to make sure it doesn’t start melting.
I actually prefer to use the defrost setting on my microwave – I don’t know exactly what that mode does differently, and it takes a little bit longer (closer to 30 seconds), but it seems to be easier to get the butter to soften without melting.
WHY DO MY OATMEAL COOKIES BURN ON THE BOTTOM BUT AREN’T DONE IN THE MIDDLE?
If your cookies are always burning on the bottom, it is probably a cookie sheet issue! If you are using really dark cookie sheets, the bottoms of your baked goods will tend to burn before they are actually cooked all the way through. If you use a lot of cooking spray, the same result can happen. I prefer to use lighter colored non-stick pans so that I don’t have to use cooking spray at all. As mentioned above, I have been converted to silicone baking mats over the last couple of years and I love how easy it is for cookies to come off the tray – no sticking ever!
OTHER OATMEAL COOKIE RECIPES THAT WE LOVE!
- Fudgy Oatmeal Cookie Bars
- Homemade Oatmeal Cream Pies
- White Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
- Microwave Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Toffee Oatmeal Cookies
- Blackberry Oatmeal Cookies
- Best Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Best Monster Cookies
Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and packed with oat flour and ground cinnamon. My new favorite oatmeal cookie recipe!
I recently had the chance to take my two oldest girls to see a local production of Les Miserables. This is one of my absolute favorite musicals and I’ve seen it multiple times, so I was so excited to be able to take them with me. This particular play was very well-done and we all had a fantastic time. And it is so fun to be able to go to plays and other activities after everything being shut down for the past year!
Hanna says
These oatmeal cookies were a total hit! They’re perfectly soft and chewy!
Lisalia says
These reminded me a lot of the molasses cookies that our family loves so much. LOVED that they have oatmeal in them without being all chunky like traditional oatmeal cookies. Perfect flavor and texture!