Easy Oatmeal Cookies

This is a guest post by Cheryl Siens

Don’t these look just amazing? Enjoy!

Ingredients:  

• 1 cup butter
• ¾ cup sugar
•  1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup flour (no need to sift)
• 2 cups oatmeal (I used Quaker Oats – Quick)
• 1 egg yolk

Directions: 

1. Melt butter in microwave safe bowl on HIGH for approximately 1 ½ minutes, then let it cool to room temperature.  Mix in sugar.
2. Add baking soda, flour, and oatmeal.  Stir thoroughly.
3. Beat the egg yolk with a fork until it’s thoroughly mixed.  Add it to the bowl and stir until it’s incorporated.
4. Grease (or spray with Pam) a standard-sized cookie sheet.  Make small balls of dough and place them on the cookie sheet.  Press down with fork in a criss-cross pattern the way you’d do for peanut butter cookies (the pattern won’t stay, but this flattens them)
5. Bake at 350˚ for 10 to 12 minutes, or until they just start to brown around the edges.  Let the cookies cool for a minute or two on the sheets and then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Are you interested in guest posting on Family Friendly Frugality? Please email me heather @ familyfriendlyfrugality.com. I’m looking for anything in the family friendly/frugal niche, but specifically how-to’s, DIY posts and RECIPES! Must be original content not posted elsewhere.