Oatmeal Scotchies

As I write this, my entire apartment smells like baked butterscotch and warm oats. There is enough of a breeze that it’s “chilly”, which by Florida standards means “not 100% humidity/on fire”, and maybe…just maybe…if I pretend hard enough…it feels like real, actual, bona fide fall.

Oatmeal Scotchies are a Wez family staple. My mom – Monica, the OG baker who got it from her mama (Mimi) who got it from *her* mama (Gramzie) – found the recipe, and it became the favorite cookie for any and all occasions. ESPECIALLY fall – oats, cinnamon, and butterscotch all conjure up visions of crunchy outdoor leaves and foliage and scarves and all that good stuff. I mean, except for now, I have a palm tree outside my bedroom window and I can wear shorts until December. So, y’know, trade off!

Oatmeal Scotchies

Servings: 4 dozen
Time: 1 hr 30 minutes
Difficulty: medium
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INGREDIENTS

1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar (light or dark)
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups quick or old-fashioned oats
1 2/3 cup (11-oz. pkg.) butterscotch morsels

Go time.

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 375° F
Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in small bowl
In a larger bowl, beat butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla together. Scrape down the sides of the bowl to combine fully after beating
Beat flour mixture into wet mixture in rough thirds, combining thoroughly after each third
By hand, stir in oats. One incorporated, stir in butterscotch morsels

It will look something like this. You may think to yourself “Self, this doesn’t look like cookie dough!”- soldier on.
Drop by rounded tablespoon (or always handy cookie scoop) onto greased or SILPAT-ed cookie sheet

All rustic an’ stuff
Bake for 8-10 minutes, rotating halfway through baking. Cool on baking sheet for 2 minutes, then move to cooling rack. **A note! When they come out at first, they will look very puffy –

Like this!
Which is why it’s so important to let them cool for 2 minutes and then transfer. Once they get their 2 minutes, they’ll look more like this

So don’t worry, and let the magic happen.
Consider sharing, reconsider.