Maple Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious twist on classic cookies. Maple gives a great hint of natural sweetness and walnut brings some extra crunch. Delicious!
How good is this holiday season? All the baking that’s happening around here has definitely made me happy!
I bet you’re baking cookies, too! I love all the baking and trying new recipes to make delicious cookies for this festive season!
These maple oatmeal cookies are one of our favorites too. They’re easy to make and everyone loves them. Maple syrup gives a subtle maple flavor to the cookies and the walnuts bring a little crunchy surprise!
These maple oatmeal cookies are perfect for holiday parties and gathering. You can serve them with milk, coffee or a cup of warm herbal tea!
This maple syrup cookies recipe is very simple to follow. Like all the other cookies, start with creaming butter and sugar, following with maple syrup and an egg. Then add the dry ingredients and that’s it! You can of course use pecans instead of walnuts if you’d like.
Notes and tips to make these maple oatmeal cookies:
- To ensure the best texture, make sure all ingredients are at room temperature.
- Cream the butter and brown sugar very well before adding the egg.
- These cookies are very forgiving. You can use chopped pecans, almonds or cashews instead of walnuts or you can leave out the nuts. You can even use chocolate chips or raisins instead of walnuts for more sweetness.
- To have equally sized cookies, use an ice cream or cookie scoop to scoop out the cookies on to the baking sheet.
- It’s possible to make the cookie dough ahead of time and store it in the fridge. Once you’re ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350f. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and take the cookie dough out of the fridge. After 10 minutes, start scooping the cookie dough onto the baking sheet and then bake the cookies.
I also want to talk to you about something that’s very important to me. For most of us, holiday season is amazing. It’s so good it just can’t get any better. Some of us might be expecting a new family member coming to this world, some of us might be starting a new job or getting a promotion. Some of us might have purchased a new place or car or we might be having big holiday plans. How amazing is that? Holiday season is full of joy!
Not for everyone.
As we are sitting around fireplace and Christmas tree and enjoying our gifts and festivities, there are people out there losing family members, jobs, home, or even their everything. No I don’t want to be the Grinch and I don’t want to steal your Christmas. I’m having a good Christmas, too, and I’m thankful for it. But I want us all to remember that there are people in this world who are not as fortunate as we are.
And the least we can do for them is to pray that one day, they can be happy and comfortable because it’s never a 4-year old’s personal choice to live in the middle of war, or a pregnant woman’s choice to deliver a baby into a desperate situation. This can happen to any of us.
All I’m asking for here, is just a little bit of prayer for the world to be a better place and for human being to be a better creature.
These maple oatmeal cookies are just an excuse to remember that there are other people in this world who are not having as fabulous time as we do, and maybe, as we bake cookies and are happy together, we can just take a brief moment to think about them and tell our kids how to be better people in the future, with the hope that the world becomes a better place.
I hope whenever you make these maple walnut oatmeal cookies, you think about everything you have and smile and think “I’m so lucky.” I know I do, and I always think to myself “I hope everyone else can be as happy as I am.”
Happy holidays!
More cookie recipes for the holidays:
- CHEWY DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES
- OATMEAL WALNUT COOKIES
- CHEWY GINGER MOLASSES COOKIES
- PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK SKILLET COOKIE
- CHOCOLATE PUDDING CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE CUPS
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
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Maple Oatmeal Cookies
Maple Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious twist on classic cookies. Maple gives a great hint of natural sweetness and walnut brings some extra crunch. Delicious!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 egg room temperature
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup old fashioned oatmeal
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Beat butter and brown sugar until creamy. Add in maple syrup and mix until combined.
- Mix in egg and vanilla extract. Beat for one minute.
- Add in old fashioned oatmeal and flour, mix on medium low until well combined.
- Fold in walnuts.
- Using an ice cream or cookie scoop, drop scoops of dough onto the baking sheet, leaving 2 inch space between them. Bake in the oven for 11-13 minutes until they are slightly brown on the edges.
Carol
I love this recipe, but even more, I love that someone is thinking about those people who are not so fortunate as we are! If we can help someone at this time of the year, or do something kind, just to show that we care, and teach our children to do the same, this world will be so much better for it.Who knows when those tables could turn and we might ourselves be looking for a bit of compassion from others. I see so many instances where children are trying to do something great to help someone else, so I know this is being put into practice all year round. I HOPE THAT THE NEW YEAR BRINGS HAPPINESS AND PEACE TO ALL!
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Thank you for your kind comment Carl! So true, I hope one of our “new year resolutions” will be to help the less fortunate in a any way possible even it’s it’s only thoughts and prayers. I hope your new year is full of happiness, peace and blessings!