• Firstly, preheat oven to 350°F.

Prepping the wet ingredients:

• In the first bowl, cream unsalted butter, dark brown sugar, white sugar, and vanilla essence for about two minutes using an electric mixer.
• Mix one small egg yolk to the creamed sugar mixture for about one minute, then set the bowl aside.

Prepping the dry ingredients:

• In the second bowl, mix all the dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, old fashioned oatmeal, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins).

Combining wet and dry mixture:

• Fold the dry mixture into the wet mixture - don't over mix or incorporate air into the mixture.

Adding oatmeal raisin cookie dough to cookie tray:

• Use a tablespoon to make round cookie balls then place each cookie ball two to third inches apart on the cookie tray.

Baking oatmeal raisin cookies:

• Bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.
• Allow the cookie to finish baking for about 5 minutes after removing the cookie tray from the oven.

Cooling oatmeal cookies:

• After the cookies are done baking immediately transfer cookies to a cooling rack to avoid sweaty, soggy cookies.