Thin and Crispy Oatmeal Cookies

Name: Thin and Crispy Oatmeal Cookies
Yield: Makes 24 cookies
Ingredients: 1 cup, unbleached all-purpose flour (5 ounces); 3/4 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 14 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 3/4 sticks), softened but still cool, about 65 degrees; 1 cup, granulated sugar (7 ounces); 1/4 cup, packed light brown sugar (1 3/4 ounces); 1 , large egg; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 2 1/2 cups, old-fashioned rolled oats (see note)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2008

Desserts or Baked Goods

SERVESMakes 24 cookies

TIME1¼ hours, plus 20 minutes cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted to enhance the standard oatmeal cookie recipe to create a crispy, delicate cookie in which the flavor of buttery oats would really stand out. Scaling back the sugar while increasing the amounts of baking powder and baking soda gav...

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