Pregnancy cravings are the weirdest. One day I can’t eat enough fresh cherries (I normally can’t stand cherries) and the next all I want is as many chewy oatmeal raisin cookies my shrinking tummy can fit.
These oatmeal raisin cookies were famous in my house growing up and for good reason. At the time, the closest temple to our home in Ohio was in Washington DC and my parents would always bring home an array of cookies from the cafeteria there. Temple cookies were the only reason we were good for whatever poor babysitter got stuck with us seven kids for the weekend. All the varieties were worth good behavior, but for me, there was something special about the oatmeal cookies.
This recipe comes from the cafeteria of the LDS temple in Washington DC and they are famous for these soft and chewy Oatmeal Raisin cookies!
Yield:5 dozen 1x
Ingredients
Scale
2 1/2 sticks butter, room temperature
1 1/2 C sugar
1 1/2 C brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tb milk
1/2 Tb salt
2/3 tsp cinnamon
1 T baking soda
2 1/2 C flour
4 C whole rolled oats
raisins
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease two cookie sheets.
Beat butter until light then slowly add each sugar until well incorporated. Scrape down the bowl and add eggs, one at a time mixing well after each addition.
Add vanilla and milk.
Mix and add salt, cinnamon and baking soda until combined. With the mixer on low, slowly add the flour then the oats.
Add raisins.
Using a small cookie scoop, place each cookie on the sheets and bake for 8 minutes until brown around the edges. The cookie will not look done in the middle but they are.
Remove from oven and allow to sit on the cookie sheet for 3-5 minutes until the cookie has set up then remove and allow to cool.
Author:Carole Jones
Nutrition
Serving Size:2 cookies
Calories:229
Sugar:36g
Sodium:300mg
Fat:6g
Saturated Fat:2g
Unsaturated Fat:3g
Trans Fat:0g
Carbohydrates:43g
Fiber:2g
Protein:3g
Cholesterol:12mg
Carole Jones
Carole Jones is an Arizona-based cookbook author & food blogger. She's authored The 30 Minute Cooking From Frozen Cookbook and the self-published Take 5: Chicken e-cookbook. For the past 15 years, Carole has shared her culinary adventures cooking and baking for her six brutally honest children here on My Kitchen Escapades. Hot, crusty bread is Carole's love language, but her two adorable grandchildren are a close second. Yes, second. Don't judge.
31 comments
rebecca
15 years ago
i was just thinking today about making Temple Cookies (DC is our temple too) and I was wondering i f anyone had figured out their recipe… any idea if there was a chococlate chip cookie recipe they used? 🙂 cheers for the recipe!
Iris Dove
4 years ago
I have all four temple cookie recipes. I’m not home right now. Email me and I will send them to you.
Cheri
4 years ago
Can k also have temple cookie recipes? We are making cookies for the construction workers for our Pittsburgh Temple !!❤️ Looking for chocolate chip as well
Linda
4 years ago
May I also please have the DC Temple cookie recipes?
Christina
4 years ago
May have the recipes too? I loved these cookies.
Christine
4 years ago
I would love to have all four temple cookie recipes also! Thanks so much!
Rebecca
4 years ago
I would like recipes, please
Amanda gunter
4 years ago
Can you please send me all the temple cookie recipes
Elena Kaneta
4 years ago
Hi Iris, I would live to have the recipes for the temple cookies that you have. We have missed them all so much!
I would love the recipes if you have them to share.
Casey
4 years ago
Iris, I would love the temple cookie recipes! May I please have them as well?
Lori
4 years ago
Can I get the Temple cookie recipes?
Sonya Pearson
4 years ago
I would love the recipes. I worked in the cafeteria form 1975-1977. I don’t have the. Chocolate chip or m&m cookie recipes. Your conversions for home use for the other recipes are probably more accurate than mine.
Thank you!
Mary Gagnon
4 years ago
Thank you for being willing to share the Washington DC temple cookie recipes . So kind of you. This was the temple of my husbands youth. He grew up in the Midwest.
Dave Beaumont
4 years ago
Hi Iris, I would live to have the recipes for the temple cookies that you have. When i went to the temple i looked forward to grap some cookies. Thank you so much for sharing them.
I was also wondering if you, or if you know someone that has the pot pie recipe it was delicious.
Thank you,
Dave
Linda
4 years ago
Would you be willing to send the Temple cookie recipes.
Mandy McFadyen
3 years ago
Would you mind emailing me the 4 recipes. We live in Saratoga springs and are preparing for the temple open house. Thank you do much
Sherrie
3 years ago
Iris, May I please get a copy of all four cookie recipes from the Washington DC Temple? Thank you!
Heather
3 years ago
I’m also interested in the for recipes ☺️
Braden
2 years ago
May I have the temple cookie recipes? Miss them.
Pat
4 years ago
Oh, please! I’d love to have these, too! Happy spiritual memories!
Our children looked so forward our return from the temple.It would be wonderful to share these when our Richmond Temple opens soon.
Pat Watson
4 years ago
Oh please! I would love to have a copy of those recipes. Many happy spiritual memories seeing happy faces of our children when we brought these home from the DC Temple. Thank you for sharing.
Maureen K
4 years ago
Could I please have the other temple cookie recipes too. The Washington Temple was in my temple district and as a youth we would love eating those cookies in the cafeteria on our yearly temple trip.
Judy White
4 years ago
Would love to receive the recipes also!
Jane M
4 years ago
May I please have the 4 recipes for temple cookies?
Cathleen
4 years ago
I would love the temple cookie recipes as well.
Linda
4 years ago
I would love the Temple cookie recipes as well if you’re willing to share. Thank you so much.
Lace Olsen
3 years ago
Can I get a copy of all four cookie recipes too? Thank you! Washington DC temple cookie recipes that is.
Brooke Styers
2 years ago
Hello- my grandmother that recently passed away worked in the DC temple for many years. I would love if you would be willing to email me the 4 cookie recipes as well! Thank you!
Helena
2 years ago
Hola!
I am Very happy to see this recipe. I have been to the Washington DC Temple cafeteria. I don’t recall the cookies. I read on another site that there is a Temple Recipe Cookbook in pdf form. Do you know anything about it? I have recipes for the Oakland Temple Custard & the Manti Temple Brownies. If you could I would also be interested in the other temple cookie recipes. Gracias!
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31 comments
i was just thinking today about making Temple Cookies (DC is our temple too) and I was wondering i f anyone had figured out their recipe… any idea if there was a chococlate chip cookie recipe they used? 🙂 cheers for the recipe!
I have all four temple cookie recipes. I’m not home right now. Email me and I will send them to you.
Can k also have temple cookie recipes? We are making cookies for the construction workers for our Pittsburgh Temple !!❤️ Looking for chocolate chip as well
May I also please have the DC Temple cookie recipes?
May have the recipes too? I loved these cookies.
I would love to have all four temple cookie recipes also! Thanks so much!
I would like recipes, please
Can you please send me all the temple cookie recipes
Hi Iris, I would live to have the recipes for the temple cookies that you have. We have missed them all so much!
Thank you,
Elena
I would also love the temple cookie recipes! [email protected]
I would love the recipes if you have them to share.
Iris, I would love the temple cookie recipes! May I please have them as well?
Can I get the Temple cookie recipes?
I would love the recipes. I worked in the cafeteria form 1975-1977. I don’t have the. Chocolate chip or m&m cookie recipes. Your conversions for home use for the other recipes are probably more accurate than mine.
Thank you!
Thank you for being willing to share the Washington DC temple cookie recipes . So kind of you. This was the temple of my husbands youth. He grew up in the Midwest.
Hi Iris, I would live to have the recipes for the temple cookies that you have. When i went to the temple i looked forward to grap some cookies. Thank you so much for sharing them.
I was also wondering if you, or if you know someone that has the pot pie recipe it was delicious.
Thank you,
Dave
Would you be willing to send the Temple cookie recipes.
Would you mind emailing me the 4 recipes. We live in Saratoga springs and are preparing for the temple open house. Thank you do much
Iris, May I please get a copy of all four cookie recipes from the Washington DC Temple? Thank you!
I’m also interested in the for recipes ☺️
May I have the temple cookie recipes? Miss them.
Oh, please! I’d love to have these, too! Happy spiritual memories!
Our children looked so forward our return from the temple.It would be wonderful to share these when our Richmond Temple opens soon.
Oh please! I would love to have a copy of those recipes. Many happy spiritual memories seeing happy faces of our children when we brought these home from the DC Temple. Thank you for sharing.
Could I please have the other temple cookie recipes too. The Washington Temple was in my temple district and as a youth we would love eating those cookies in the cafeteria on our yearly temple trip.
Would love to receive the recipes also!
May I please have the 4 recipes for temple cookies?
I would love the temple cookie recipes as well.
I would love the Temple cookie recipes as well if you’re willing to share. Thank you so much.
Can I get a copy of all four cookie recipes too? Thank you! Washington DC temple cookie recipes that is.
Hello- my grandmother that recently passed away worked in the DC temple for many years. I would love if you would be willing to email me the 4 cookie recipes as well! Thank you!
Hola!
I am Very happy to see this recipe. I have been to the Washington DC Temple cafeteria. I don’t recall the cookies. I read on another site that there is a Temple Recipe Cookbook in pdf form. Do you know anything about it? I have recipes for the Oakland Temple Custard & the Manti Temple Brownies. If you could I would also be interested in the other temple cookie recipes. Gracias!