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Lace Cookie Recipe

Oatmeal Lace Cookies

5 from 1 vote
"Made from a batter that spreads and separates as it bakes into lacy, brittle, see-through wafers, these fancy-looking cookies crunch when you bite into them and immediately melt in your mouth with the rich taste of butter and brown sugar" - America's Test Kitchen
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings30 cookies

Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons butter unsalted
  • 6 tablespoons brown sugar, packed light
  • ¼ cup dark corn syrup
  • ½ cup 1.5 oz quick oats NOT old fashioned
  • ¼ cup flour 1 ¼ oz
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ teaspoons heavy cream
  • teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • Heat oven to 350℉.  Line baking sheets with parchment paper. 
  • Combine butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup in medium saucepan; cook, stirring constantly, over medium heat until boiling. Remove from heat.
  • Off heat, add oats, flour, vanilla, cream, and salt and whisk until well combined.
  • Using 1-teaspoon measure, drop scoops of batter 3 inches apart on prepared sheets.  Bake until golden and no longer bubbling, 6 to 8 minutes. Let cookies cool on sheets for 1-2 minutes if shaping cookies or 10 minutes if leaving flat - see below for shaping tips.
  • Gently remove cookies from parchment and repeat with remaining batter.  Serve.  

Shaping

  • Flat: If you want to simply try the flat disks, they are delicious plain, or drizzled in chocolate.
  • Rolled Cigar: To make a rolled cigar shape, flip the warm cookie upside down and then roll it around the handle and let it cool completely. The trick with rolling is that it has to be at just the right temperature.  After they come out of the oven, you have a short time before they harden up, but they'll also be piping hot!  You'll need to wait until they're cool enough to touch, and then roll them over a spoon handle (or something similar) to shape.
    Once shaped and cooled, you can leave them plain, or drizzle them with chocolate like I did.
  • Costco Florentine-Style: You can replicate these by sandwiching these with melted chocolate in the middle. Florentines are usually made with ground almonds in place of oatmeal, but these will taste very similar! It will spill out the little holes, but just place on parchment until it dries and hardens.

Notes

This recipe yields 30-36 cookies.  However, I suggest you double the batter just because it's so easy to, and then you'll have some wiggle room to test out a cookie or two before cooking the whole batch, just to get the hang of it!

Nutrition

Calories: 36kcal, Carbohydrates: 5g, Protein: 0.1g, Fat: 2g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.4g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 4mg, Sodium: 27mg, Potassium: 7mg, Fiber: 0.03g, Sugar: 5g, Vitamin A: 50IU, Vitamin C: 0.002mg, Calcium: 3mg, Iron: 0.1mg
Course: Desserts
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Oatmeal Lace Cookies
Calories: 36kcal
Author: Sara Wells
Cost: $8
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