What are the Different Types of Oatmeal Cookies?
Few people can resist fresh oatmeal cookies still warm from the oven. There are many possible variations on the basic oatmeal cookie such as adding different fruits, coconut, nuts or even chocolate added to the batter. The two main types of oatmeal cookies are thin and thick. Thick oatmeal cookies are soft, while the thin ones are crispy. Many people like both, but some have a strong preference for one type over the other. The thick kind of oatmeal cookie is usually moist, yet cake-like in texture. The thinner oatmeal cookie is sometimes slightly crunchy and may have a crumbly texture. Making thicker balls of dough and slightly under-baking them tends to result in the soft and thick type of oatmeal cookie. Flattening smaller amounts of oatmeal cookie dough is likely to produce thin and crispy cookies. The type of fat used in the cookies doesn’t usually make that much of a different in the texture.
