Easy Swedish Oat Cookies

If you feel that baking is not for you, I hope these cookies will interest you. Making them is not a difficult process, but don't make any change in the proportions of the ingredients, please. Follow this recipe and I believe that you will be satisfied. You'll need just 5 ingredients. They are my husband's favorite snack and he has them with a glass of milk.














This batch will make 25 - 45. Yield depends on the size of the cookies.
You'll need at least two baking sheets.

INGREDIENTS
* 200 grams butter, melted
* 3 dl/300 ml porridge oats
* 2 dl/200 ml caster sugar
* 3 dl/300 ml flour
* 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 175 °C [= 347 °F].
2. Pour the melted butter over the oats.
3. Add the flour, sieved, mixed with bicarbonate of soda, and sugar.
4. Mix in butter/oat mixture and form to a dough.
5. Take small pieces of dough, knead and shape into balls.
6. Place the balls on baking sheets ab. 5 centimeters/2 inches apart.
7. Bake for 5-6 minutes, then use a fork to press and flatten them.
8. Continue baking for 5-6 minutes, or until they begin to turn light brown.
9. Cool on the baking sheets for 1-2 minutes, then carefully loosen them with a metal spatula without moving them.

Oat cookie ingredients can be varied but the above recipe is ideal when you wish to bake simple and quick oat cookies without nuts, almonds, raisins, chocolate and spices.

Non-stick baking paper is not a necessity because these cookies are easy to remove from the baking sheets. Besides, the oat cookies will become more crisp without it. The baking sheets will conduct more heat directly to the bottom of the cookies if unlined.

Butter is one of the oldest and most important of our dairy derivatives. Please don't substitute with margarine in this recipe. If you do, it will most likely result in dry, crumbly or fragile cookies instead of crisp and crunchy ones.