Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Remember the packs of Iced Oatmeal cookies 
we used to eat when we were kids? 
Well, try these and you'll be transported back to a summer day with cookies and Kool-Aid in the backyard with your friends...
it doesn't get any better than that! 

 





Iced Oatmeal Cookies

1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats

2 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1 cup butter, room temperature

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup light-brown sugar

2 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla

Icing

2 cups powdered sugar

5 TBSP milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  

Pour oats into food processor and pulse until partially ground.  

In mixing bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, 

salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ground oats together. 

 In mixing bowl, whip butter, sugar and brown sugar 
until light and fluffy about 3-4 minutes.  
Add in eggs, one at a time, mixing well.  Stir in vanilla.  


Slowly add in dry ingredients and mix until combined.  
Allow dough to rest 10 minutes at room temperature.  


Place by teaspoonfuls on baking sheet.  
Bake 11-15 minutes.  Cool on wire rack.  



In mixing bowl, whisk powdered sugar and milk.  
Dip tops of cooled cookies in icing and allow excess to run off.  Return to wire rack and allow icing to set.  
Store in container at room temperature.  




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The yummy ingredients...





Grind the oatmeal until it has a fine texture...







Mix all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl...




Whip the butter & sugars about 4 minutes 
until light and creamy...
then add the eggs...






The vanilla goes in next...
you know, the vanilla that I never measure...
surely you've noticed by now :)





Add the flour/oat mixture and combine well...







Drop by teaspoonfuls onto your baking sheet...






On 350 degrees for 11-15 minutes until they're lightly brown...

While they cool, make the icing...




Add the milk to the confectioners sugar and stir until 
it is of Elmer's glue consistency...
yes, really...








You can certainly use a decorator bag...
my tool of choice tonight was the all purpose ziploc...
but be forewarned...
the glue/icing is sooooo thick that the pressure 
did cause the bag to burst...
I just improvised after that..
it's ok...
it's just a cookie...:)






They look beautifully rustic...don't they!  
The icing hardens yet is still creamy 
when you take a bite...
ahh cookie bliss...

They were at huge hit with all my testers at home and at work!  
Enjoy!