Raisin Bran Cookies

Name: Raisin Bran Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1/3 cup Crisco All-Vegetable Shortening (Butter Flavor, room temperature); ½ cup sugar; 1/8 tsp salt; 2 tsp molasses; 1 egg; ¾ cup all-purpose flour; 1 1/3 cups Kellogg’s Raisin Bran cereal; 1/3 cup walnuts (crushed); 1/3 cup raisins

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Scurry to your pantry and grab that box of Raisin Bran cereal. We’re having Raisin Bran Cookies for breakfast! And lunch. And dinner. Yes, they are that amazing.

Goodbye, Cereal. Hello, Raisin Bran Cookies!

Are you an oatmeal cookie type?

These Raisin Bran Cookies are going to be your brand new favorite.

This recipe is far from brand new, though. I discovered this recipe in a vintage cookbook published in 1921. Its fragile, musty pages are a treasure trove of delicious recipes from the golden days.

The original recipe was titled “Bran-Fruit Cookies (Mr. Hook’s)”.

I’m sure talented Mr. Hook used good old fashioned milled bran (not bran flakes cereal) in his recipe. In fact, Kellogg’s Raisin Bran cereal wasn’t invented until the 1940s (tasty fact). However, that delicious, flaky cereal is the type of bran I grew up knowing and loving, which is why I have included Kellogg’s Raisin Bran cereal as my sweet little modification to this fantastic cookie recipe.

If you love vintage recipes, here a few personal faves:

Rocky Road Fudge Bars (1972), Gold Medal Dark Chocolate Pecan Pie (1953), and the most popular recipe on my site, Retro 7-Up Salad.

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How to Make Raisin Bran Cookies

Watch me whip up a batch of Raisin Bran Cookies in this short video:

Or follow along step-by-step below. Let’s bake!

Preheat your oven to 325° F. Coat a baking sheet with nonstick spray.

In a medium mixing bowl, add 1/3 cup room temperature vegetable shortening. Crisco has butter flavored shortening, which turned out the winner in our taste tests. However, this recipe tastes amazing with regular Crisco or even butter. See recipe notes for butter substitution.

Next, add 1/2 cup sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 2 teaspoons molasses. Molasses is what gives these Raisin Bran Cookies that boost of flavor. Molasses is what makes these Raisin Bran Cookies so addicting. Molasses. Do not leave out this delicious ingredient, and do thank me later!

Beat the ingredients with an electric mixer on medium speed for a couple of minutes, or until combined.

Add one egg and beat again for a couple of minutes.

The mixture will be smooth and creamy.

Next, add 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, and use a spoon to stir just until combined.

Finally, fold in all the good stuff:

1 1/3 cups Raisin Bran cereal (We grew up eating Kellogg’s)

1/3 cup crushed walnuts

1/3 cup raisins

You actually don’t have to be too careful with folding here. Just stir it up until all of the bran flakes are coated with cookie dough.

(Drooling. . .)

Coat a baking sheet with nonstick spray. Then drop the cookie dough onto the sheet by heaping tablespoons. This recipe yields 9 thick cookies.

Bake at 325° F for 14 – 16 minutes, or until bottoms and edges are golden but the center still looks slightly undercooked They’ll finish cooking during the cooling process.

Cool for a minute on the baking sheet and then transfer to a cooling rack.

Enjoy warm or at room temperature, and don’t forget your cup of Joe!

Raisin Bran Cookies: Here’s the complete, printable recipe:

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