Crumbl Copycat: Iced Oatmeal Cookies

Crumbl Copycat: Iced Oatmeal Cookies - made dough May 1, 2022 from Lifestyle of a Foodie 

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/3 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

1 egg

1 1/4 cups old-fashioned whole rolled oats

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

pinch of nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

Icing

3/4 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 tablespoons milk

1/4 teaspoon vanilla

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until well combined, creamy and no lumps remain. Add vanilla extra and egg; beat until combined.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together oats, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt. Add to butter mixture in two additions, mixing until just combined after each addition, until no floury streaks remain.
4. Scrape down sides and bottom of bowl to keep mixture even-textured.
5. Portion into 8 equally-sized dough balls and flatten slightly to thick discs. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on baking sheet for 20 minutes.
6. Make the icing: in a small bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Thin with a little more milk until desired consistency. Dip cookies into glaze.

Now that I've tried more of the actual Crumbl specialty flavors, I'm more interested than ever in finding credible copycat recipes of the ones I really liked. As mentioned before, Lifestyle of a Foodie seems to have the most copycats and not only that, but hers are some of the best I've tried. So do peruse her blog directly if you want to go down the Crumbl copycat rabbit hole (and who doesn't?). In some cases, while the recipes don't turn out exactly like Crumbl's, they're still pretty good and sometimes, might even be a tad bit better.

I liked Crumbl's Iced Oatmeal when it came out so I was interested in trying this copycat recipe. And, like so many of her recipes, this one didn't disappoint. It doesn't spread much so if you want a uniform thickness, make sure you flatten the dough balls into thick discs. Mine came out a little puffier than Crumbl's but that was okay (and possibly even preferable).

I only made one cookie in a larger size, similar to Crumbl's and made the rest more normal-sized since I was going to mail these out in care packages, sans icing, since iced cookies likely wouldn't travel well. So I only made enough icing to cover the (large) taste test cookie. It was superb. Chewy from the whole rolled oats and just the right amount of spice from the cinnamon and pinch of nutmeg. I probably pinched less than a usual pinch since I'm not fond of nutmeg but it was just the right touch for my taste buds. The simple vanilla icing was also just the right touch, just like with the original Crumbl cookie. I'd definitely make this again.

The only thing to note is the original recipe said to bake for 10 minutes. In my oven, at the 10-minute mark, I could still see some parts of the cookie top was raw dough so I let it bake a few minutes longer and took it out after 14 minutes. So use the 10 minutes as a guideline, depending on your oven, and go by how it looks before taking it out.