There’s a bit of lore around oatmeal cookies in my family. My mom wasn’t much of a baker, but she tried for many years to get us to like oatmeal raisin cookies. She probably baked dozens of different ...

The cookies I made most often as a kid were from recipes printed on the backs of staple baking ingredient packaging, including chocolate chips, brown sugar, and old-fashioned oats. Those recipes had ...

Alongside baking essentials like flour and sugar, oats are one of the longest standing pantry items. The cereal grain has been adding fiber to recipes for centuries, playing a role in both sweet and ...

This post has been updated. Oatmeal raisin cookies are a classic in the pantheon of desserts, so I was stunned to discover that The Washington Post didn’t have a recipe in our database for this ...