These Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies are flavorful, soft, and chewy. They're great cookies for the Fall season and incredibly easy to make.
With delicious flavors of cinnamon and butterscotch, these cookies are a seasonal favorite and a great addition to fall baking.
Ingredients in Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies (Oatmeal Scotchies)
- Granulated sugar
- Brown sugar, packed
- Vanilla extract
- Eggs
- All-purpose flour
- Ground cinnamon
- Ground nutmeg
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Quick oats
- Butterscotch Morsels
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How to Make Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies
Preheat the oven – Preheat the oven to 350° and line cookie sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
Beat the wet ingredients together – Beat the softened butter until smooth and add the granulated sugar and the brown sugar and beat until smooth.
Then, add eggs one at a time and beat until incorporated. Lastly, beat in the vanilla to combine.
Combine the dry ingredients – In a separate bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnaon, and baking soda and mix to combine.
Combine the flour mixture with the wet mix – Slowly beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until incorporated.
Slowly, add the quick oats to the cookie dough until all ingredients are incorporated.
Once the oatmeal is mixed in, gently stir in the butterscotch morsels.
TIP: A hand mixer makes this recipe quick and easy to make vs. mixing by hand.
Scoop the cookie dough – Use a #40 cookie scoop (or scoop by 1 ½ tablespoonsful of dough) and scoop cookie dough onto the cookie sheets, leaving 2 inches of space between each cookie.
Bake the cookies, one cookie sheet at a time for 10-11 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool for 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Store the cookies in an airtight container.
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Can You Freeze Oatmeal Scotchies?
Yes, you can freeze Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies AKA Oatmeal Scotchies. These cookies can be rolled into a log and sliced and baked as desired or they can be scooped into balls of cookie dough and frozen in freezer safe bag.
By freezing in balls of cookie dough, you can remove as little as much as you want and bake the cookies according to the directions in the recipe. Simply place the cookie dough on the counter while the oven preheats.
📖 Recipe
Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter - softened
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 cups quick oats
- 11 oz bag butterscotch morsels
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat the softened butter until smooth.
- Beat in the granulated sugar and the brown sugar until smooth.
- Add eggs one at a time and blend well.
- Add in vanilla, and stir to combine.
- In a separate bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, salt, cinnamon,nutmeg, and baking soda.
- Slowly beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until incorporated.
- Add the quick oats a little at a time until combined.
- Lastly, stir in the butterscotch morsels.
- Use a #40 cookie scoop (or scoop by 1 ½ tablespoonsful of dough) and scoop cookie dough onto the cookie sheets, leaving 2 inches of space between each cookie.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool for 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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Her recipes range from classic comfort foods to healthy and nutritious meals, and she is always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to bring flavor and variety to the table.
Caitlin - Simply Balanced Mama says
Ohh my goodness! These look amazing! Skimming the recipe, starting with butter convinced me to give these a shot. I have never used butterscotch morsels in oatmeal cookies, but that sounds wonderful. I will be saving this recipe to try for sure!
Diana says
These look and sound delicious! Perfect for the Fall season! I will have to try making these sometime.
Aryn says
These look so delicious and perfect for fall, I will have to try them!
MissJess says
Omg. I LOVE oatmeal cookies, but oatmeal butterscotch! You’re trying to kill me with deliciousness. This looks so good. Definitely gonna have to make me some bomb cookies. Thank you ?
Amanda Elize says
Oh these look so delicious! I love butterscotch! They look great for thanksgiving or Christmas!
Angie says
These look and sound so delicious! Perfect for fall too!
regina says
This recipe reminds me of my childhood. My mom would make these cookies and we would eat them when they were warm. They’d be a little crispy and we’d get a glass of milk. Good memories.
Holly Bird says
Wonderful recipes! Thank you!
Nick Barknot says
These cookies are REALLY good. I made half the recipe, that is, I divided the amount listed in the original recipe for every ingredient in half. Followed the directions. And I couldn't wait 10 minutes for the first cooling period to end. I'm munching on one right now. Easy and more delicious than the simplicity of the recipe would lead you to believe.
Thank you, Mama Dana.
Nick Barknot
Ann says
Yum, theses cookies sound delicious! I love an oatmeal cookie, and the butterscotch sounds like a yummy add!
Andrea says
Nowhere in the recipe does it specifically state when the cinnamon and nutmeg are to be added. For someone who is not a baker and overlooks this, can completely alter the recipe.
Tina says
@Andrea, The recipe says:
In a separate bowl mix All purpose flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking soda together.
I skipped straight to the recipe. Hope this helped.