Oatmeal Cookies

Ever go through your pantry and see something that needs to be used up?  I do, and this weekend, I found my tube of instant oatmeal.

This tube also included a good recipe for oatmeal cookies and just enough instant oats to bake said cookies.  

I really like oatmeal cookies, especially during this time of year.  They taste much heartier, and they have the illusion of being healthier.  However, when you start a recipe out with 1 cup of softened butter, you really should know better than that!

So, mix the cup of butter with 1/2 cup of white sugar and 1 cup of brown sugar.  Beat until combined.

Add 2 eggs and a tsp of vanilla extract.

Next, beat in 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp of salt, 1 st cinnamon and 1 1/2 cups of AP flour.

Instead of the typical raisin, I added my favorite chocolate chips, as well as dried cranberries.

And then the oats, 3 cups to be exact.

Stir to combine.

Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes.

But what's this? My cookies are all melty.

And resemble little piles of cat sick...

I'm not quite sure what happened with these...maybe the butter was too soft, and the fat didn't properly distribute in the cookies.  Or, it could be that I didn't full incorporate the oats in the cookies.  Who knows.  These cookies looked ugly...but they tasted great!