Brown Butter Cranberry Walnut Oatmeal Cookies

Kim Lange · thebakingchocolatess.com · 2025 · 12 large cookies

Against 499 oatmeal cookie recipes

Less leavening than 93% of recipes and more fat than 82%.

How it compares

Against the typical batch: the median of 499 oatmeal cookie recipes, per 100 g of flour.

Less leavening than 93% of recipes: 0.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 2.9%, under a third as much.
More fat than 82% of recipes: 121% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 91%.
Fewer oats than 80% of recipes: 57% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 85%.
Less egg than 78% of recipes: 27% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

1 cup unsalted butter (browned and cooled to room temperature)≈ 227 g
3/4 cup brown sugar≈ 165 g
1/4 cup granulated sugar≈ 50 g
1 large egg + 1 large egg yolk≈ 50 g
1 tablespoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste≈ 13 g
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (or use a cup-for-cup gluten free flour blend)≈ 188 g
1 tablespoon cornstarch≈ 8 g
1/4 teaspoon baking soda≈ 1.5 g
1/4 teaspoon fine salt≈ 1.5 g
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon≈ 1.3 g
1 1/3 cups old-fashioned oats≈ 107 g
1 1/2 cups dried cranberries≈ 225 g
1 cup walnuts (whole or chopped)≈ 120 g
1 tablespoon flaxseed meal or whole flaxseeds (optional)≈ 15 g

flour 188 gbatter 1171 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 499 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: oats, fat, sugar, egg, leavening, salt.