I made a batch of cookie dough tonight; baked one pan and froze the rest
in little balls (#50 food scoop) for baking later. It's a new recipe --
as in *really* new cuz I made it up myself after referring to a bunch of
other recipes:

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

1 C butter, softened
1 C sugar
1/3 C maple-flavored pancake syrup
2 eggs
1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 C quick-cooking oats
1 C raisins

Cream the butter, sugar, and syrup. Add the eggs one-at-a-time, beating
after each one until fluffy. Mix in flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt.
Add the oats and raisins and stir to combine. Drop with a cookie scoop
(#50 for regular sized and #40 for big ones) onto ungreased cookie sheet
and bake at 375°F for about 10 minutes. Let cool slightly on the cookie
sheets so they don't fall apart, then transfer to a wire rack to finish
cooling.

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They taste best as raw dough (of course), or freshly-baked but after
they cool. The one I ate while still hot was kind of cakey; probably
from the moisture in the syrup. But when cooled they were tender.

Notice it's made with all white sugar, and there's no vanilla. I might
try using 1/2 white and 1/2 brown next time, but I don't know; they're
pretty good just like this. I thought maple + vanilla might be confusing.

I didn't use the full measure of salt because I used salted butter, plus
the soda is salty. I probably used 1/4 tsp. (you could probably leave
out the salt)

Bob