Oatmeal Cookies (Betty Crocker Cookie Pouch Copycat)

Oatmeal cookies y’all!  So, I bake a lot.  And I enjoy baking from scratch.  I had never made a brownie recipe from scratch until just a few years ago (because the box mixes are always soooooo good, easy and cheap).  Now I have a killer, from-scratch brownie recipe that I use and have shared with friends and family.  But now baking from scratch and creating recipes is what I truly enjoy doing, so no box mixes are allowed in my pantry.  Except I have a confession to make…

While I make everything from scratch for everyone else, I make my own oatmeal cookies from the Betty Crocker Oatmeal Cookie Mix pouch that you buy at the grocery store.  I know…the horror right?  I have tried to recreate the taste of these cookies time and time again from scratch, and after taking a close look at the ingredient list on the back, as well as consulting the internet for some baking science, much trial and error in the kitchen, I think I have finally replicated the taste of the Betty Crocker Oatmeal Cookie Mix cookies.  So yes, you can spend $2 and just buy the Betty Crocker Oatmeal Cookie Mix pouch, or if you are like me and want a challenge, here is my crazy recipe replicating it.  Betty Crocker has a cookbook (I think it is a standard in every kitchen), but that cookie recipe is not the same as what you get from the Betty Crocker Oatmeal Cookie Mix Pouch.

So the Betty Crocker Oatmeal Cookie Mix…I looooooove these cookies.  Like I have one every night and even bring a Tupperware container of them with me on vacation so I can still have my oatmeal cookie every night.  I have been doing this for longer than I can remember (we are talking like going on 10-years).  Of course like everything else, I don’t follow the directions on the back of the pouch mix.  If you want to make the oatmeal cookies using the Betty Crocker Cookie Mix pouch, you can follow the directions on the back of the pouch, or make them like I do: in a microwave-safe bowl put 2 teaspoons of salted butter in it and then microwave until mostly melted (takes me 11-seconds).  Add 2 tablespoons warm water to the butter and 1/4 cup of room temperature egg substitute to the butter.  Stir by hand with a wooden spoon and then add the entire contents of the cookie pouch to the mixing bowl.  Mix until combined.  The amount of water I add varies sometimes, so if the dough is too dry, add a very little amount of water to the dough until dough is incorporated without being dry.  Too much water will leave you with a goopy batter and then that just sucks.  So be careful with your water.  I like my dough very thick and maybe what you might consider a little dry.  I divide the dough into 5 large cookies and bake on a dark, non-stick cookie sheet (no parchment paper, no grease) in a 350-degree oven for exactly 7-minutes.  I let the cookies cool completely on the baking sheet and then store in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days (5 cookies = 5 days for me and they are just as good on day 5).

So now that I have sold you on the easy use-a-mix recipe, let me show you what I came up with as a copycat.  I was so impressed with my copycat skills of this recipe, I call them my Amazing Oatmeal Cookies.  Because I think they are pretty much amazing.

This is what the consistency of my oatmeal cookie dough looks like!  Can I just eat all the cookie dough though??

This is the second batch I made….I was still trying to perfect my recipe.  On the second go, I finally got the recipe that rivaled the copycat recipe I was looking for!

Oatmeal cookie goodness!

Nom nom nom nom nom….oh you could add chocolate chips to these if you wanted to too!  Thanks for reading the blog!  If you make these, come back and let me know what you think!

XOXO,

Kelly

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