GRANDMA ANN'S ICED OATMEAL SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare cookie sheets with baking parchment or a silicone liner.
• 2. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in sorghum or molasses and the eggs until well blended.
• 3. Stir together the flour, salt, soda, and spices.
• 4. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Mix until well mixed.
• 5. Add raisins.
• 6. Fold in the oats and stir well.
• 7. Drop by tablespoons onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for about 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Allow to set about 3 minutes on sheets, then remove to wire rack for cooling.
• 8. When cool, you can ice with royal icing. Combine icing ingredients and stir until smooth. Add a little bit more lemon juice if too thick, or more powdered sugar if too thin.
• 9. Drizzle from the end of a teaspoon over cookies. Or, place a teaspoon of icing in a dollop on each cookie and spread with the back of the spoon. Allow to harden before storing.
• 10. I also discovered some leftover packaged cookie icing in my pantry and decided to ice some of the cookies with this. You can make swirls or stripes.