Oatmeal Raisin Scotchie Bars
I know you’re busy. Believe me, I do. I don’t care what it is you list as your job description on your Facebook page, I know your time is a valuable premium and you’d rather have a little more of it. Know what else, though? I also know that you like to eat. If you’re here now, chances are pretty good you like to bake as well ~grins~.
See how well I know you? That’s why I like to bring you these easy recipes that take up a lot less of your time than you’d think and don’t require a lot of fussing with. Today I’m bringing you some great flavors of a classic – Oatmeal Scotchies- combined into the ease of a bar cookie. I love making traditional cookies but bar cookies cut the time and work in half and offer up the same flavor in a more sturdy vehicle. That’s why they get included in my mailed care packages on a regular basis, or brought along with me when I travel and want to bring treats for the kids to enjoy along the way.
With a tender soft cookie, these taste of butter, brown sugar, butterscotch, and raisins, and remain moist and delicious in your cookie jar – if they live long enough to make it there. This is also a great recipe to let kids help out with! Oh, did I mention they are made with baking mix? It just keeps getting easier…
You’ll need: Raisins, Baking Mix, Dark Brown Sugar, Oats, Cinnamon, Egg, Butter, Vanilla, and Butterscotch Chips
I’m using a Buttermilk Biscuit Baking Mix by House-Autry. I normally use whatever baking mix I can find but I really feel like this one makes a richer cookie. You can use whatever you have on hand.
Melt butter in the microwave and place in a large mixing bowl. Add baking mix…
and brown sugar
Add egg and oats
Stir that up real good
Add in butterscotch chips
and raisins
and then toss in your cinnamon and
Vanilla
Stir that all up well
grease an 8×8 pan
Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
Enjoy an after school or coffee treat!
Ingredients Instructions
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on May 20 2010. Filed under Dessert.
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Mmmmm, I *love* your baking mix recipes!!
I was privileged enough to be able to sample these as they came out of the oven…Oh my stinkin heck they are fabulous!!! Thanks for letting me be the taster Christy!
OH NO! What happened to the cover with the picture of the kids at the table behind you? Did they change covers?
I’m referring to the cover on your book =) I thought I remembered a picture of the kids at the table on the top left corner of the book. I thought it was such a cute picture! Am I just delusional or did they change the cover layout?
Hey Cindy!
They did change it a little. I’m with you on having the kids in it, of course. The sales dept thought this cover worked better AND they did indulge me by putting more kid pics in the book. Brady and Katy are also in there an even number of times, lol. I’m such a mother!
They told me last week that the back of the book might have pics of the whole family as well , that’s the only thing that hadn’t been designed yet but should be any day now. They also changed the color of the plate that the chicken is on. Lol. The new color is much better!
It won’t be perfect till there is a picture of me in there somewhere.
I Like the kids on the cover better….tell them to change it back and to stop messing with a good thing..lol.
Goodness! I’m 40 minutes north of Raleigh. I’m going to see Christy this weekend! Woo hoo!
YAY!!!!
and I’m twenty minutes east of Raleigh—DOUBLE YAY!!!
I am making these in the morning for when the kids get home from school!! Yummy, thanks for another awesome recipe Christy!! Hugs~Laurie
Did you get a new camera?!!!!! Your photos looks great!! What kind of camera did you get?
This recipe looks fabulous. I’ve bookmarked so many of your recipes; this is another one.
I’m definitely planning on making these! I love me some oatmeal raisin cookies. (Especially the ones from Subway. *sigh* I can’t stop at just one! lol) Never could find a recipe to match the taste of those, nor thought about making bars Instead of cookies! With this recipe, I’ll be able to get my oatmeal raisin fix at home easily!
Thanks for the awesome recipe Christy!
Since I am currently living in Pennsylvania and have never once seen that House-Autry name in any grocery store, I guess I will hafta do all my shopping in Southern grocery stores. ~grins~ This looks wonderful and thank you for sharing. Have fun this wkend in N.C.!
Since I have a Scotch ancestry, may I assume that these “Scotchie” bars wouldn’t dare make me gain weight? ~giggles~ Christy…don’t answer that.
Loved the quote from your fav and my fav too…Dale Carnegie. Love ya…T
Dear Terri
If you go to Southern stores to do your grocery shopping it gives a whole new slant to shopping especially from Pennsylvania…lol
Dear Terri
Which part of Scotland are your relatives from – my father-in-law was from Aberdeen?
Hi Sue, True, true about a whole new slant! You should see the trunk of my car whenever I have traveled back from Atlanta & Augusta, Georgia w/ cooking treasures from my beloved South. It is a 14-hour drive and I use a cooler to transport Chick-fil-a and even sausage, the best I have EVER had, from a place near my in-laws.
I know I am Scotch-Irish and Great-grandaddy was a McNesser. My 1st cousin is working on the family tree but IF I find out it is Aberdeen, I am looking you up! tee hee Have a great day, Sue.
We need this in a printable format! I don’t want to lose it for nothin!
Oh if only I were not working this weekend I would drive the two hours to Raleigh to give you a hug for all of the delicous things you have put on my table and all of the “wow you made this??” comments I’ve gotten!
I thought dearest’s eyes were going to pop out of his head the first night we had sweet and sour green beans
Thank you Christy!
OH WOW!! This sound so yummy!!!! I’m a sucker for oatmeal raisin cookies and adding butterscotch just makes em that much more delectable! I’ve made one of your other cookie recipes which use a baking mix and you’re so right, takes the time and just cuts it down!! Gotta love these recipes and shortcuts you give us!!!!
Thanks so much Christy! NC is on the other side of the country from me so hopefully one day you’ll head out west. We’d sure love to have you!
I know you live in Madison, Christy. Where do you find House-Autry Biscuit Mix in the area?
I’m sure it’s 1/2 cup of raisins but on the brown sugar is it really 1 cup or is it more? There’s an “s” on cup and it looks like two lumps of brown sugar in the picture … I want to make sure I get enough in there, lol! Can’t wait for my pre-ordered cookbook to arrive! Keep up the great work!
Where do you get all your colorful baking dishes, are they pyrex, new or old? Love them!!!! Yea where do you find House-Autry Biscuit Mix?…Wallie World? (Walmart)hehehe that’s what we nicknamed it here.
Can’t wait to try this one, the Cherry Cobbler is to die for, my husband ate the whole thing, not at one sitting though. I’m dieting so I took only one small bite(I promise),it’s great!!! He said he gained 10lbs, when was I going to make another one, go figure, haha.
Thanks for all your time spent and recipes for all of us!!!! Hve a safe weekend!!!
Christy’s gonna be in NC!! Raleigh is about a 2 hour drive for me but I think I could maybe convince my hubby this could be our weekend excursion when I tell him about that all you can eat BBQ AND kids eat FREE!! Now if only the rain will just stay away…
And speakin of that baking mix… I have never seen it in any of the grocery stores around here. I only thought they made hushpuppy and breading mixes. Their hushpuppies are goooood!
I’m 45 minutes east of Raleigh, and would LOVE to come meet you…… but I will be spending Saturday shopping with my Mom, aunt and cousin for my wedding dress.
(Which means no Butterfinger Cake for me until September!)
Hope you enjoy your time in NC!
Would these work with chocolate chips?
Girl, you took the words right out of my mouth! I’m not too crazy about cooked raisins in sweets – I’ll eat them in Raisin Bran but that’s about it – so I picked up some semisweet choc chips along with the butterscotch chips for mine. Headed to the kitchen now!
I made these the other day with Semi sweet chocolate chips and they were delicious. Chocolate chip and butterscotch chips are yummy together.
I’m two hours west of Raleigh triple woo-hoo
Hi ~ I made these this morning for an upcoming road trip (leaving tomorrow). They turned out beautifully and are all packed & ready to go (with the exception of one…or was it two or three?!…that won’t be going along)!! WONDERFUL taste and texture! I was very low on margarine so splurged and used a stick of Amish butter I keep on hand…YUMMY!!! Thanks, Christy, for sharing the recipe!
Christi,
I was just thinkin it would be so awesome to have a cookie bar chart, kind of like your casserole chart, with the main recipe the same but changing out the add-ins. I just put these bars in the oven with choc chips instead of raisins and I didn’t know if I should add the cinnamon or not, so I added it and we’ll see how it does! Thanks so much for all you do – I always check here first for my recipes and feel like I’ve learned a lot about cooking from you!
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I made these tonight…AMAZING!! Nothing like cinnamon, raisins, and brown sugar. Yuuummmm. I’m passing this along to all my girlfriends
Yummy, hope you had one for me, I love these too!! Glad to hear they were such a hit.
dh is not a fan of butterscotch – wonder if putting dates in place of butterscotch
would work?
Or chocolate chips, whatever you like! This is easily adaptable so just make the whole thing to suit you!:)
These sound really good. Not a big fan of raisins. Might be just as good without.. my grandchildren are home for the holidays. Will be putting this on things to make list.
Girl I want to put this recipe on our website (House-Autry). It’s easy, tastes good and uses my favorite House-Autry product!
Not a big fan of raisins but I have craisins in the pantry. Can’t have a cookie without nuts so that will be added too. Love the idea of using a baking mix. Can’t wait to try these soon. Thanks for all the great recipes using products we currently have on hand most of the time.
Great ideas Winnie!! And that is one of the great things about this recipe, very versatile.
I noticed a mistake in the printable recipe. It just says 1/2 raisins. Now it probably means 1/2 CUP of raisins, but just thought I’d let you know.
I don’t know what baking mix is. I’m in my 60′s and I never heard of baking mix! But if I figure that out, I will definitely be using dried cranberries instead of raisins — it IS Thanksgiving/Christmas season! And nuts, too, to make it giftable. Winnie and I are on the same track.
Bisquick is baking mix. You may be more familiar with that dried cranberries would be sublime!
Would you have a good baking mix recipe that you make up? I never know what to choose on the store shelves and I bet I live a minimum of 15 hours away from the South (I’m in Nebraska).
I’d love to try these – minus all the additives in store bought baking mix. (Ignore the fact that I’m adding butterscotch or peanut butter chips to these – LOL
Tina
I am trying these w/ chocolate chips instead of butterscotch. I don’t think you can go wrong w/ them! BTW, I just purchased the House Autry at Publix here in Ga.
I am so glad to hear that you found the House Autry mix!!! I hope you enjoy the recipe!!