FARGO — These Old-Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies are filled with warmth, nostalgia and fabulous, homemade flavor.

These classic cookies are wonderfully soft and chewy, and the hardened vanilla icing will take you straight back to your childhood. They are the perfect treat for lunch boxes and after-school snacks, and an excellent recipe to make with children of any age.

Old-fashioned rolled oats are best for these cookies, and I blitz them in my food processor several times to make them coarse and crumbly. You want the oats to be varied in texture and size, with some large pieces, some smaller pieces and even some floury bits. This variety creates a compact and uniform structure, making the cookies soft and tender. If you don’t have a food processor, you can use a large knife to chop them

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