Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Last Saturday was the perfect morning to just get in the kitchen and start baking.  A cool (I hesitate to use the word cold…I mean, seriously, it’s still September in Texas) front had just rolled in, it was overcast, and to me, it really felt like a fall morning.  I just couldn’t resist the urge to fill the house with the smell of cinnamon and nutmeg and further reinforce that fall feeling I had.  Recently, I’ve been pinning a million and one dessert recipes, so I decided to flip through them to see what sounded good.  When I came across a recipe for iced oatmeal cookies, I couldn’t pass it up.  They looked and sounded so good, not to mention I had all the ingredients to make them (that might have had a little something to do with me picking them).  So Haylen and I went to work…

 

Waiting patiently for our cookies to come out of the oven.  She loved checking on our cookies.

“Hey Mommy!  Look at my hat!”  What’s baking without a few shenanigans from my silly girl! 

These iced oatmeal cookies turned out amazing! 

They were such a big hit in our house, I’ll share the recipe so that you all can try them too!

 

Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Original recipe found here at Mother Thyme

 

Ingredients:

2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon balking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon gound nutmeg

1 cup butter (softened)

1 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

-Pulse rolled oats in a food processor for about 10 seconds or until coarse

-Mix oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a medium bowl.  I like to whisk all these ingredients together.

-Cream the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.

-Add in eggs (one at a time) and vanilla.

-Gradually add in the flour mixture and mix until combined.

-Roll dough into balls (I used a tablespoon to measure out the dough) and place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Make sure they are about 2 inches apart. 

-Bake for 10-12 minutes

-Cool on baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring the cookies to a wire baking rack to cool.

 

Glaze

Ingredients:

2 cups confectioners sugar

3 tablespoons milk

1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (I added this for a little extra flavor)

 

-Using a whisk, mix confectioners sugar, milk, and vanilla extract in a medium bowl.  Taste the icing to see if you need to add the full 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla…this is simply based on your taste. 

-Once cookies are cooled, dip the tops of the cookies into the glaze.

-Put cookies back on drying rack until icing sets.

 

Enjoy!

Back to School

I feel like my poor little blog always gets neglected this time of year.  With school starting back up, focus seems to shift to getting everything ready for the new school year.  I’m sure any of you teachers out there would understand this.  So for now, my posts about our summer zoo trip and our awesome beach vacation are going to have wait just a little bit longer.  But in the meantime, here’s what’s been going on in the Havlik household as of late…

 

School started back up, kiddos and all, last Monday… 

I didn’t take any pictures until Thursday.  It was Aggie Game Day!!!  First game of the season called for new Aggie clothes for our whole family (Haylen and I went shopping Wednesday night.  I went to the mall needing make up and came back with new Aggie gear for everyone.  It just seemed like the right thing to do!).  Here’s Haylen modeling her new Aggie dress.  Gig’em!

We had a busy evening Friday.  I had a check-up and Haylen had gymnastics.  We quickly changed into her leo and put her hair up in a ponytail right after school and headed straight to the doctor’s office.  When we got out of the car, Haylen found this tree and sweetly requested, “Mommy take a picture of me in front of this tree.”  Who was I to deny her a few pictures!?!  By the time we finished snapping these, CJ drove up and we all headed in to the office together.  Baby sister had a great check-up and we ended our evening with some awesome Mexican food. 

This about sums up our Saturday.  Sometimes you just need a lazy Saturday to recover from your first week back at work.  There’s no tired like teacher tired after that first week of school.  Not sure what Zoe’s excuse was, but as you can see, she was lounging just as much as we were. 

I was totally productive on Sunday.  Guess I had to make up for the lack of motivation I had on Saturday.  We woke up early and hit the floor running.  Haylen and I made homemade pancakes, whole wheat pancakes to be exact.  Yummy AND healthy!  I may just have to post the recipe on here sometime.  Haylen loves to eat them and loves to help me make them.  I remember spending weekends in the kitchen with my Gran and I remember how special those moments were to me.  So, I can’t help but smile when Haylen is so eager to grab the stool, pull it up to the countertop, and be my little helper.  Just making memories! 

We had lunch at Carter’s Burger.  Nothing like a little ice cream after lunch.  From there we went to run all of our errands…, grocery store, Petsmart, Sam’s…all to get ready for the week ahead.  CJ’s mom came in later that afternoon while Haylen and I were snoozing.  Apparently, all those errands wore us out because we took a nice little, okay I’ll be honest here, nice long nap.  We finished the evening with a little Texas Roadhouse takeout.

 

Monday was a hard day.  One of our sweet second graders at school unexpectedly passed away over the weekend.  Death is never easy, but the passing of a child…words cannot express that feeling.  As a Mommy, it made me just want to snuggle my girl a little closer and make the most of every moment.  

On a happier note, I found out Monday afternoon that Haylen’s picture had won the Instagram contest at her gym.  I never win anything, like ever, so this was quite exciting!  We won back our fall registration fee. Woohoo!!!  Speaking of the gym, Haylen had class that evening and then we all went to eat dinner at Sodolak’s. 

While eating dinner Haylen informs me, “Mommy, I’m eating my orcas.”  Oh my!  That was supposed to be okra, but I couldn’t help but picture her trying to take a bite out of Shamu! 

 

Well, it’s now Wednesday, and we’ve made it halfway through the second week of school.  My goal is to do a better job updating this little blog, but we’ll see how that goes.  Baby sister will make her debut in about 6 weeks and we have lots to get ready before then.  So until next time…