copycat recipe for subway oatmeal raisin cookies

When I shared on Facebook that I was attempting to make the best Oatmeal Creme Pies in all the land, my friend Anna told me that Stella from Brave Tart (and now at SeriousEats) had posted an oatmeal creme pie recipe a couple of years ago.

To that I added some of the other singular ingredients contained in Little Debbies one doesn’t normally expect to find in an oatmeal cookie recipe and started testing. I got rid of some of the extraneous starches: corn starch, rice flour and concentrated on the ingredients that appeared before the list stated “Less than 2% of the following…” I left out ingredients there was no way I could find and ended up with a list 27 ingredients long.I looked over the impressive ingredient list (and by impressive, I mean disturbingly long) and wrote down all the ingredients I could pronounce, translating industrial food names–dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, emulsifiers–into ingredients that I kept in my kitchen: sugar, corn syrup, eggs.I dissected them to taste just the cookie by itself and then just the creme.To that end, I purchased a “Big Pack” of Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies. Because when you try to recreate a classic, you want to get it just right.įirst up: research. I tested this recipe several times, second only to my Crunchy Butterfinger Candy Bars post which I tested a whopping 9 times. Testing to Get Them Just RightĪnd so, my quest to create the best homemade Oatmeal Creme Pies recipe began. Sadly the changes most likely were to add new food dyes, stabilizers, emulsifiers and cheaper sugars to their recipe.īut I remember them before they got their makeover, and I wanted to bring back that particular glory.

They’re still beloved cookies that have stood the test of time, even if they have changed just a bit over the years. My young self absolutely noticed when the texture changed, although I probably wasn’t as concerned with the actual flavor back then. The cookies were a bit firmer, the creme a bit grainier, and I loved them. When I was a kid, they tasted different than they do now.

I suppose my mother reasoned that since they were made of oatmeal, they were healthy. While I often bemoaned the fact we weren’t allowed sugared cereals or the yearned after PopTarts, I could console myself with Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies. 11.6 Nutrition Little Debbies Changed Over the Years

Copycat recipe for subway oatmeal raisin cookies