Toasted Oatmeal Cutout Cookies

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If you want some fun roll and cut cookies that are different than anything you’ve ever had, these toasted oatmeal cutout cookies are the thing for you! They make for cute and tasty Christmas cookies! 

There are some cookies that we just have to make from year to year.  Actually, this year I really thought I was going to skip the cut out cookies all together.  

They are fun, but they do take a bit of work and things have been extra busy lately.  Of course as the time grew close, I just couldn’t not make some.

A standard recipe of Royal Icing usually frosts 2-3 batches of cookies for me.  I knew my go-to sugar cookies would have to get made and Jax was really hoping to make some gingerbread men, so German Gingerbread was a shoe-in.  

Last year we rounded out the cut outs with peanut butter cutouts, but I’ve made a few versions of peanut butter cookies lately and I wanted to try something new.

That’s when I saw the oatmeal cutout cookies over at Created by Diane.  I thought an oatmeal cookies would be a fun twist.  Of course, I had to make a few changes.  

I have really been loving pretoasting my oatmeal when making granola lately, so I thought toasting the oatmeal in the cookies would add another layer of flavor.  I also really love the texture of great-grandma’s step-on cookies.  

The multi-day prep of her oatmeal cookies gives them a great soft texture.  So I added both of those elements into the prep of this batch and it resulted in a delicious cookie.

To be honest, the dough was no picnic to cut.  It somehow managed to be slightly sticky and slightly crumbly at the same time.  

But they weren’t so hard that Jax couldn’t do some rolling and cutting, so you can certainly manage as well!  They also spread a bit, so it is best to stick with simple cookie cutters.  

I know it sounds like I am talking you out of them, I am not.  Really, they are worth making.  I am just trying to give you all of the keys to success!

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