Name: Maple Oatmeal Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 12 servings
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

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Maple Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious twist on classic cookies. Maple gives a great hint of natural sweetness and walnut brings some extra crunch to these oatmeal cookies.

We have great love for oatmeal cookies. Our famous chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are so good and we sure love the best cranberry oatmeal cookies. We even have no bake oatmeal cookies that are so easy to make.

Maple oatmeal cookies are perfect for the holiday season!

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!

Maple syrup oatmeal cookies are perfect for holiday parties and gathering. You can serve them with milk, coffee or a cup of warm herbal tea!

How to make maple walnut oatmeal cookies

This maple syrup cookies recipe is very simple to follow:

Preheat the oven to 350F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cream butter and sugar in a bowl.
Add maple syrup and the egg
Add in old fashioned oats and all purpose flour. Mix using a spatula or a wooden spoon.
Fold in chopped walnuts.
Scoop out the cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet and bake in the oven until the edges are golden brown.
Cool completely on a wire rack and serve.

Do I have to chill the oatmeal cookie dough?

For this particular maple oatmeal cookie recipe, you can skip the chilling. However, chilling always gives better texture to the cookies. You can chill the cookie dough for an hour up to overnight.

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How to store maple cookies

Once the walnut maple oatmeal cookies are cool, store them in a ziploc bag or an airtight container for up to three days. You can also freeze oatmeal cookies by storing them in a ziploc bag and place them in the freezer for up to three months. To thaw, take the frozen cookies out of the bag and place them on a baking sheet and leave them at room temperature until completely thawed.

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.
You can add 1/2 cup chocolate chips to the maple oatmeal cookie dough after adding the walnuts.

Cookies and happiness for everyone

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.

Maple oatmeal cookies make a great gift!

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!