Vi's Oat Cookies is a community recipe submitted by Rhyleysgranny and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.
Heat the oven to gas mark 4 or 180 c Grease a large baking tray with butter or margarine.
Mix flour, oats, and baking soda together in a bowl put to one side.
Put margarine or butter, sugar and golden syrup or light corn syrup in a saucepan and heat on a low heat until butter and sugar are melted, stir occasionally, take off heat and stir in the oat mix, beat well with a wooden spoon.
Scoop dessert spoons of mixture up and make into ball shapes and place on a greased baking tray when the tray is full slightly flatten the balls out with the back of the dessert spoon.
Cook in the oven for 15 minutes, when ready remove from the oven and leave to cool on the baking sheet for 5 mins before moving onto a wire rack.
Repeat and do the same until all the mixture has been used up. Serve with a cup of tea any remaining biscuits can be kept in an airtight tin for about a week (if they last that long).
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I use soft brown sugar as I like the caramely taste. I always do double quantities too and add about 100gms dried cranberries. Lovely
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Posted by choward on 29th March 2013
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Posted by bindi5 on 29th May 2012
Show more commentsi am swimmer that does training in a morning and they are the perfect snack to have after any training session.
These are lovely. I used demerara sugar, which was all I had in my pantry, but it didn't seem to matter - the end result was still delicious!