Maple Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

A few weeks ago my boss walked into my office and said "hey want to go see the lion king? I've got 4 tickets and I can't go anymore" ummm YES!!! My coworker, her boyfriend, another friend and myself found ourselves sitting in the 5th row in total amazement just hours later. (John was invited but he politely declined wanting to go - silly man) It was memorizing, the choreography, the costumes! And grown up Simba was a hottie! (bonus points since he was shirtless the whole time)... what? is that wrong to say? Can't a girl appreciate some man meat? Have you ever been? You would have thought he was hot too.

Anyway.... to thank my boss I made him a batch of Maple Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. And they were amazing!! Crisp on the outside with a nice chew in the middle these things are not on the healthy list. No sir, these are on the butter and sugar list.

Remember how I went to Trout Brook Sugarhouse a few weeks ago for a 24x24? While there I picked up a bag of their pancake mix and a cookie recipe. (both created by the son of the owner). The cookies they had out to sample were delicious so I knew I wanted to buy some of the pancake mix so I could make them up too. (The raisin addition was all me... I know I'm just so inventive sometimes I can't help it...)

Maple Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
recipe by Trout Brook Sugarhouse
Makes 2 dozen

1 stick butter (1/2 cup) softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tbs maple syrup
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1.5 cups Trout Brook Peter's Pancake mix (ingredient lists includes: flour, oats, oat flour, molasses powder, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, natural flavor)
1/2 cup raisins (my addition)

Beat together butter and sugar, add in vanilla maple syrup and egg. Slowly mix in pancake mix and fold in raisins. Drop tablespoonfuls of dough onto a greased cookie sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 350 for 10-15 minutes.

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