Maple Oatmeal Cookies

I have a bad habit.

I am the type of person to go into my fridge, take out an item and think and obsess over one simple question: "What else can I do with you?"

It all starts because I like to utilize everything that I have, I like them to have more then one purpose.



This just happened with my fake maple syrup that I have in the fridge since the last time I made pancakes, which might have been March or April.

Then I decided it should go into a cookie, a nice Thankgiving style cookie.



I started this recipe with 1/2 cup sugar and 5 overflowing tablespoons of my fake maple syrup. I'm sure you can use real maple syrup too, but I don't have any, so this is what you get. While I measure that out I melted down 1/2 cup of butter. When that was ready I poured it in and incorporated it.



Then I added 1 cup of flour and mixed that in along with 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon salt.



I also had some oatmeal (which I use for everything BUT oatmeal and normally in baking) and mixed in a cup of that. I only use the quick oats, I don't know how it would work with the normal ones, so let me know if you try and what happens....



I added in 1/2 cup of chopped nuts, I had almonds so that's what I put in, but I may try walnuts when I get some maybe next week. Then I took my favorite dried fruit next to figs: CRANBERRIES! and added them in too. I'm sure you can put raisins in with this too and bake them up but Danny doesn't really care for them and I like the tang that cranberries puts in so that's why I use them, plus I get the huge bags at BJ's.



I then dropped it onto a cookie sheet and baked them up. It seems I forgot to take a picture of the finished product. Mostly likely this happened because I was to busy eating the cookie. I can say hands down this has became my favorite cookie without any chocolate (with the exception of the ginger snap) and that is hard to do. Just so you know they do spread but they don't end up super crunchy.



Just try them, I think they are a winner.

Maple Oatmeal Cookies

1/2 cup of melted butter
1/2 cup of sugar
5 overflowing tablespoons of syrup
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup quick oats
1/2 cup chopped nuts (I used almonds)
1/2 cup cranberries

preheat oven at 350 and bake for 10 minutes.