Oatmeal Butterscotch Chip Cookies

Total Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed down
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups old fashioned oats, uncooked
• 1 (6 ounce) package butterscotch chips (1 cup)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 in a medium mixing bowl, mix together the ingredients in the order listed. start by creaming the shortening with the sugars, then add the vanilla; mix well.
• 3 add the beaten eggs; mix well; set aside.
• 4 in a separate mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the flour, soda, and salt. add the flour mixture, all at once, to the shortening-sugar mixture; mix well.
• 5 add the oats and the butterscotch chips all at one time; mix well.
• 6 grease (with vegetable shortening) a large 16-inch by 12-inch baking sheet.
• 7 shape dough into golf ball-size balls, spacing 2 inches apart. place 12 dough balls on the cookie sheet.
• 8 bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. in my oven, the cookies are generally done baking in 11 minutes. allow cookies to sit on the baking sheet 1 minute before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.