If you love soft, chewy cookies that feel like a cozy hug, these soft apple oatmeal cookies are about to become your go-to ...

Preparation 1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spread the oats in a single layer on an unlined baking sheet. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes, or until lightly toasted.

Oatmeal raisin cookies are a classic in the pantheon of desserts, so I was stunned to discover that The Washington Post didn’t have a recipe in our database for this delicious but divisive dessert.

Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Using a 2-inch-diameter (1 ⅓-ounce) cookie scoop, gently scoop a heaping yet loose mound of dough; you don’t want to pack the dough into the scoop.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Photo: Yunhee Kim for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Jamie Kimm, Prop Styling by Stephanie Hanes Ms. Weller uses Quaker Old-Fashioned Oats. She prefers them to ...

This is true of tall, tender shortbread cookies, which need to be rolled into a log, brushed with egg wash, and sugared before they firm up in the fridge for many hours.

It’s that we would, in fact, brush past a teetering stack of fancy chocolate chunk mega-cookies to get just one nubby, chewy, dried-fruit-speckled disk of oatmeal raisin, especially if it is ...

If you’re into chewier oatmeal-raisin cookies, reduce baking time by 2 minutes. For crispier, flatten them out a bit before baking.