These soft and chewy oatmeal raisin cookies are amazing! Perfect texture, just the way the oatmeal raisin cookies should be! This recipe is so easy to make and never fails to produce amazing soft and chewy cookies!
Put butter, brown sugar and white sugar in a large bowl and cream together with a mixer until smooth. Add the egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt to the liquid ingredients. Mix with a mixer until incorporated. Add the oats and raisins, and mix with a spoon until everything is combined.
Cover the bowl with the cookie dough with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes to chill.
Preheat the oven to 350F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
Remove chilled cookie dough from the refrigerator. Drop the cookie dough by a heaping tablespoon on a baking sheet, leaving 2 inches of space between cookies.
Put the baking sheets in the oven and bake the oatmeal raisin cookies for 10-12 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on a baking sheet for 5 minutes.