Comments on: crisp salted oatmeal white chocolate cookies

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:35:23 +0000

I made these yesterday for a party, and they were a huge hit. I am not a white chocolate fan in the least, but I used a four oz bar and it really did make a difference. And the salt was perfect. One taster said, “these could convert me to white chocolate.” Thank you!

By: Arlene

Arlene — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:24:59 +0000

My first time commenting on a recipe, but just had to rave about these cookies – and this incredible website by the fabulous Deb Perelman. I was looking for recipe to use the white choc I had and discovered these. OMG!!! I make cookies almost every week and these jumped to the top of the list of my son’s favorites. After he ate more than he should have he told me he loved me very much. What better praise is there than that?
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Deb!
Looking forward to making some of your Passover desserts.

By: Mita

Mita — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:56:25 +0000

I had no problems, and am having to slap hands so we can make them last for at least two more days!

By: Leeniest

Leeniest — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:09:04 +0000

Like Maasikas said on June 13, 2008, I cooked these and in the oven the dough spread out thin and when I took them out they were crispy on top and falling apart and granola like on the bottom. They didn’t really taste like cookies, more like bad granola flapjacks. I think my dough was far runnier than the dough shown in the pic above…how to fix that? More flour? :(

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:58:07 +0000

I have just made these and they are absolutely delicious! i will definitely be baking these again!

By: alexis

alexis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:05:16 +0000

I probably should have read ALL the comments because I had the classic case of cookie spread described by others. I took these little disasters to work, and ya know what? People FREAKED out about how much they loved them and yelled at me for maligning them! They are by no means attractive but in the end they really appeal to people. Im going to try to make these again for my own satisfaction but I have a feeling my coworkers would kill me if I corrected the “mistake” that made them flatten out!

By: Kelly D

Kelly D — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:34:12 +0000

OH. MY. GOODNESS. Delicious. I think calling these oatmeal is a bit of a misnomer. They have oatmeal in them, yes, but they are far from traditional oatmeal cookies. To me they are like blondie brownies in cookie form. It is the caramelized sugar and butter goodness I think.

I was nervous about the salt, I knew it would taste good, I just didn’t want to accidentally put too much and then ruin the cookies. But just a couple of flakes were perfect!!

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:29:31 +0000

Made these for a baby shower this weekend & gave the extras to my dad. Just got this text message from him: “I think that was basically the best cookie I’ve ever had in my life. Thank you.”
Had to pass the compliment along!!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:58:28 +0000

Hi Deb! Same here, I’ve been following along for a little while, but this is my first time commenting. I was searching for an oatmeal cookie recipe for a desert I decided to make for a dinner party tonight: maple ice cream sandwiches! I just tasted one of the cookies (I omitted the chocolate) while my ice cream churns… and they’re EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks so much.

(For the record, mine did spread quite a bit, but they’re crispy, with a little bit of chew to them, and 100% delicious. My salt could be saltier though… I used Himalayan salt.)

By: mair

mair — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:38:14 +0000

Hi Deb! Just wanted to give you a million thanks for sharing this recipe. I’ve repeated it many times in the last three months. Earlier, I found some dough balls I had frozen two weeks ago, threw them into the toaster oven and ten minutes later the cookies were as tasty and light and crispy as ever! Thanks again! Happy new year!