Old Fashioned Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

So for Lunar New Year, I made some oatmeal raisin cookies for my boyfriend's parents. I'd made this cookies a couple times before and both his parents enjoyed it. So I wanted to go "bai nin" with something and not arrive with empty hands.

This cookie is super duper easy to make, considering I followed the Quaker Oat box but just changed up the sugar content myself since cookies made with exact box recipe was too sweet for me. I learned that on my very first batch.

Quaker Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (modified/less-sweet version)

~makes 4 dozens

1/2 cup + 6 tablespoons butter, softened

1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 + 1/8 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned)
1 cup raisin

1. Heat oven to 350°F.

2.  In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy.

3. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
4. Combine and sift flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt, and add into wet mixture.
5. Mix in oats and raisins.

6. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

7. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown.

8. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Let cool.