You know how it goes.  You bought a big box of instant oatmeal packets but there’s one flavor no one in the house will eat no matter how much bribery you attempt.  You can’t stand wasting perfectly good food so you save them hoping one day you can convince someone to eat them.  Seriously, you know it’s not going to happen……until now!!  Make them into cookies…..but keep it a secret where they came from :-) .

Oatmeal Packet Cookies

Ingredients:
1/4 c white sugar
1/2 c brown sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 c butter, softened
1 egg
6 packets flavored instant oatmeal *
1 c flour
add-ins as desired (chocolate chips, craisins, raisins) *

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients except flour and oatmeal packets. Stir in flour and oatmeal packets. (If you like your cookies chewy and cakey, add 1-2 extra tablespoons of milk.)
Roll dough into 1 1/2″ balls and drop onto an ungreased cookie sheet, about 2″ apart. Smash the balls down to a thickness of about half an inch.
Bake until light brown, about ten minutes. Allow to cool on cookie sheet briefly, then remove to a rack to finish cooling.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies

* NOTES:
1)The number of packets needed will depend on the size of the packets you use.  Open and mix in a couple of packets and add in additional packets until cookie consistency.  For example, using more than 4 packets of Quaker’s Weight Control 1.58oz (45g) will make them too dry (with those packets when used 4 packets the cookies were good, but were better when only used 3); smaller packets are when you use 6 packets.
2)You can use any flavor packets you have.
3)Add-ins make them better.  Our favorite has been 1/2 cup Craisins plus 1/4 cup chocolate chips.