Possibly, your butter is too soft. After mixing the cookie dough, place it
into the refrigerator for a few minutes to chill it and firm it up.

I like using a cookie scoop to speed up my work and get uniform size
cookies.

I love oatmeal cookies, usually use a recipe right on the box of oatmeal.

Rina


"brickled" wrote in message
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hello all,

seems every time we make these, they want to burn on the edges, all the
while the middle is uncooked and more times than not the entire cookie
ends
up "flattening" (appears the cookie is melting rather than cooking) out so
far that it just turns out to be a gigantic mess in the pan. the end
result
is so far from what one would expect that it seems unfathomable that we
actually followed the recipe.