These eggless oatmeal cookies are soft and chewy, sweet buttery, loaded with plump, juicy raisins and perfectly spiced with cinnamon. This is super easy to make and my favorite oatmeal raisin cookie recipe made without eggs.
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❤️You’ll Love This Recipe
Egg-Free Cookies: Trust me!! You can make classic cookies just like your grandma made without eggs and that is without compromising the flavor and texture. You’ll love all the texture in these eggless oatmeal cookies.
Taste: Sweet, buttery with juicy raisins in every bite and with a hint of warm cinnamon spice.
Texture: Thick cookies with slightly crisp around the edges, soft and chewy in the center.
No Chilling Required: Yes, the cookie dough doesn’t require any chilling time in the refrigerator. So you can make these eggless oatmeal cookies in just 30 minutes from start to finish.
The ultimate way to enjoy these oatmeal raisin cookies: Have them fresh, warm from the oven with a glass of cold milk.
🧾Ingredient Notes
Unsalted Butter: Use softened, room temperature butter. I always prefer to use unsalted butter in my baking. Just because I like the flavor of it better and I want to control the salt in my recipe. But you can use salted butter if you don’t have one.
Brown sugar: Here light brown sugar is used along with a very small quantity of regular white sugar. Brown sugar has more moisture than white sugar. So it gives moist cookies.
Ground Cinnamon: It adds depth of flavor to the cookies. I love the cinnamon flavor, so I always add it. But if you are not a fan of it then you can skip it.
Vanilla: It adds flavor and aroma to the cookies.
Baking soda: It rises the cookies and gives a softer texture.All purpose flour: Yes you’ll need some amount of flour to get the structure for your cookies so they maintain their shape and hold up once baked.
Rolled Oats: Always use old-fashioned rolled oats. It gives the eggless oatmeal cookies it's signature chewy texture. Instant or quick-cooking oats are so powdery that they don’t make a good cookie texture.
Raisins: The pairing of oatmeal with raisins is just perfect. I like those plump raisins in every bite of egg-free oatmeal cookies. Raisins have high sugar content, so they retain moisture which helps to keep the cookies soft for the next few days.
👩🍳Step By Step Photo Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) for at least 10 minutes.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Or prep 1 baking sheet only if you’re baking each batch separately.
1) In a bowl, take dry ingredients (all purpose flour, baking soda and ground cinnamon).
2) Whisk until everything is mixed.
3) In another large bowl, take softened butter, white sugar and brown sugar.
4) Start beating using a hand mixer (or use a stand mixer with paddle attachment). Beat it until smooth.
5) Then add vanilla and water.
6) Again beat until combined. Using a spatula scrape the sides of the bowl.
7) Add flour mixture and rolled oats.
8) Mix using a spatula until everything comes together like a soft dough.
9) Now add raisins. (*see notes for to soak or not to soak raisins)
10) Fold them into the cookie dough.
11) Now take a portion of the cookie dough using a cookie scoop (1 ½ tablespoons size) into your palm.
12) Shape into a fairly smooth ball.
13) Flatten it slightly.
14) So it becomes a disk shape.
15) Arrange it on a prepared cookie sheet. Place them a few inches apart so cookies have some room to expand.
16) Bake into the preheated oven for 12-14 minutes. Let it cool the cookies in a pan for 5 minutes so they firm up. Then transfer them on a cooling rack to cool down. Serve them warm or at room temperature.
📖Variations
Here I have shared eggless oatmeal raisin cookie recipe. But this oatmeal cookie dough can be the base of many other variations. You’ll need ¾ cup add-ins of your choice. If using more than one add-in then it should be a total of ¾ cup.
- Replace raisins with m&ms or peanut butter m&ms.
- Add chocolate chips only or mixed with raisins.
- Try with butterscotch chips or peanut butter chips.
- Try adding toasted, chopped nuts like pecans, walnuts.
- Instead of raisins try other dried fruits like cranberries, dried cherries, golden raisins.
- A mix of white chocolate chips and dried cranberries or dried cherries
💭 Expert Tips
No-Soak or Pre-Soak Raisins?
- If your raisins are fresh meaning you’ve just opened the packet and they feel moist, slightly sticky and super soft. If your raisins are fresh then no need to soak.
- If raisins are stored in the refrigerator from a previously opened package then take a few in your hand, feel them. If they look slightly dried up, hard (but when your bite it’s still soft) then soak the raisins.
- How to soak raisins for eggless oatmeal cookies? Soak raisins in warm water for 10 minutes only. Drain all the water and pat dry using a kitchen towel or paper towel.
Want to make more cookies? You can easily double or triple this eggless oatmeal cookies recipe without any issue.
If the cookie dough is sticky and soft, then chill the dough for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. This can happen if your butter is overly softened and almost melted.
🍪 Storage Instructions
At room temperature, store in an airtight container for up to 4-5 days. Let the cookies cool down to room temperature before storing.
Cookie dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a day. Meaning you can make the dough a day before and bake the next day.
Freeze the cookie dough balls for up to 3 months. Make balls, place them on the cookie sheet. Cover it loosely with plastic wrap and freeze until balls are frozen and hard. Transfer them to a freezer-safe ziplock bag, remove as much air as possible, seal it and store it in the freezer.When ready to bake, arrange them on the cookie sheet a few inches apart and bake into the preheated oven. Also, increase the baking time by a few minutes extra since these are frozen.
Check Out More Cookies Without Eggs
- Eggless chocolate chip cookies
- Eggless snickerdoodles
- Eggless peanut butter cookies
- Eggless butter cookies (Danish style)
- Eggless chocolate cookies
- Eggless Coconut cookies
Did you try this eggless oatmeal cookies recipe? I’d love to hear about it! Click here to leave a review.
📋 Recipe Card
Eggless Oatmeal Cookies {With Raisins}
Ingredients
- ¾ cup All purpose flour (Maida)
- ½ teaspoon Ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 stick or ½ cup Unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- 1 tablespoons White sugar
- ⅔ cup Light brown sugar Packed
- 1 teaspoon Pure vanilla extract
- 3-4 teaspoons Water
- 1 ⅓ cups Rolled oats Old fashioned
- ¾ cup Raisins
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) for at least 10 minutes.
- Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Or prep 1 baking sheet only if you’re baking each batch separately.
- In a bowl, take dry ingredients (all purpose flour, baking soda and ground cinnamon). Whisk until everything is mixed.
- In another large bowl, take softened butter, white sugar and brown sugar. Start beating using a hand mixer (or use a stand mixer with paddle attachment). Beat it until smooth.
- Then add vanilla and water. Again beat until combined. Using a spatula scrap the sides of the bowl.
- Add flour mixture and rolled oats. Mix using a spatula until everything comes together like a soft dough.
- Now add raisins. (*see notes for to soak or not to soak raisins) Fold them into the cookie dough.
- Now take a portion of the cookie dough using a cookie scoop (1 ½ tablespoons size) into your palm. Shape into a fairly smooth ball. Flatten it slightly. So it becomes a disk shape.
- Arrange it on a prepared cookie sheet. Place them a few inches apart so cookies have some room to expand.
- Bake into the preheated oven for 12-14 minutes.
- Let it cool the cookies in a pan for 5 minutes so they firm up. Then transfer them on a cooling rack to cool down. Serve them warm or at room temperature.
Notes
- If your raisins are fresh meaning you’ve just opened the packet and they feel moist, slightly sticky and super soft. If your raisins are like these fresh then no need to soak.
- If raisins are stored in the refrigerator from a previously opened package then take a few in your hand, feel them. If they look slightly dried up, hard (but when your bite it’s still soft) then soak the raisins.
- How to soak raisins for eggless oatmeal cookies? Soak raisins in warm water for 10 minutes only. Drain all the water and pat dry using a kitchen towel or paper towel.
- At room temperature, store in an airtight container for up to 4-5 days. Let the cookies cool down to room temperature before storing.
- Cookie dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a day. Meaning you can make the dough a day before and bake the next day.
- Freeze the cookie dough balls for up to 3 months.
Audrey P
This is my favorite Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe of all time! The cookies baked perfectly and are soft and chewy. Thank you for a great recipe. I can’t wait to try your other eggless cookie recipes.
Kanan Patel
Happy to hear it.
varsha
first time i made this (last week) i used the water as mentioned in the recipe to mix with the butter & sugar but that was hard to mix and dough turned out too sticky; had to be refrigerated for around an hour to be used. this time (today) i used only 2 tablespoons of milk instead and added one tablespoon more of flour and it was perfect.
Kanan Patel
Glad that it worked out in second try.
But did you use US measuring cups? Because I have never faced this issue before.