These old-fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy, and coated in a sweet vanilla icing. This recipe is flourless, gluten free, and packed with cozy spices.
Prep Time20mins
Cook Time10mins
Total Time30mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: frosted cookie, iced cookies, old fashioned cookie
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line 2 baking sheets with silicone mats.
In your stand mixer, beat butter and brown sugar together until fluffy — this may take a few minutes because the butter is cold.
Beat in vanilla, molasses, and egg.
Add ground oats, whole oats, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt, and baking soda, then mix until well combined.
Use a large cookie scoop to scoop out 16 dough balls — place 8 onto each prepared baking sheet.*
Bake in preheated oven to 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown.
Remove from oven, then allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely before icing.
Icing
Place powered sugar, salt, milk, and vanilla into a medium sized bowl then whisk until smooth.
Dunk the tops of the completely cooled cookies into the icing.
Place back onto the wire cooling rack to allow the icing to set.