This is better than the Quaker recipe, especially if you follow the tips from others. Increasing the flour and baking powder make the cookies soft and chewy. I use 1 cup white chocolate chips and 1 cup dried cranberries. I also added some cinnamon and cloves as I like a spice oatmeal cookie. Next time I will increase salt to 1 teaspoon to counter the sweetness of the white chocolate. They are nice and soft though. I will use this recipe all the time now.

Reviewed On: Jan. 30, 2009

You absolutely cannot screw up this recipe.. I tried really hard, but couldn't do it. It was so great. My first try at homemade bread. I forgot to add the water with the first set of ingredients and then added too much flour. I was so flustered, the dough kneaded for 3-4 minutes. I didn't put enough oil in the bowl and the top of the dough dried out. To make things worse, the temp in the house was too cool, even with the oven on and it took two hours to rise. I was about to throw the whole mess out when it finally rose. I punched it down because of all the work I had done and put it in the pans, looking like blobs with appendages. It rose again in about an hour and I baked it. It smelled wonderful! The bread was so great. I had used a technique my daughter suggested to prevent the crust from being too thick or tough, spraying one spray of water in the oven every 3 minutes for the first 9 minutes. The crust was perfect. Even my daughter, who has been baking bread for awhile said this was a great bread (and she didn't try it until 5 days later). I will be making this a lot. The 16-yr-old male in the house even bothers to cut this for himself. Wow, thanks so much!

Reviewed On: Jan. 14, 2009

I followed this recipe to the letter and I wasn't real thrilled. It took much longer to cook and the "crust" was soggy. However, I put all the leftovers in containers and took it all to work for lunch for my coworkers. We put it on salad and it was good, though the crust was still soggy. I am going to try one more time because of the number of good reviews this got, but I will make a "crumb topping" with the melted butter so it will crisp up.

Reviewed On: May 13, 2008