{"id":3143,"date":"2025-12-12T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:22:09","slug":"swedish-oatmeal-thins-havreflarn-year-round-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heritagecookies.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/swedish-oatmeal-thins-havreflarn-year-round-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"SWEDISH OATMEAL THINS (“HAVREFLARN”), A Year-Round Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s funny how the simplest cookies can be the ones that drive you batty. Scott\u2019s been trying to nail down Tuiles for so long that it\u2019s become a family joke. Oatmeal wafers have been another bane. Until now. These aren\u2019t thin enough to call a proper \u201cwafer\u201d \u2013 hence the name \u201cthins\u201d \u2013 but they are simple, easy to play with, and utterly delicious. A true year-round cookie rather than something fancy for the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to see the recipe without the discussion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There isn\u2019t a whole lot more to say beyond \u201cmake this cookie, and make it often.\u201d<\/em> Oat Thins<\/em> are a classic, relatively bulletproof treat from Scandinavia that is more equivalent to an everyday Chocolate Chip Cookie<\/em> than any of the fancier Christmas treats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s nailed. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NOTE FROM KATE: I had nothing to do with the baking of this cookie…but I played with the chocolate. The neatest way is to load your melted chocolate into a pastry bag, snip off the tip so you get a thin stream, and make parallel lines across the entire sheet at once. Then stripe them sideways to form the diamonds. To easily make sandwiches, snip the bag opening a little larger, squirt, and squish. As much as I like these with chocolate, I absolutely adore the hit of buttery flavors when these cookies are still slightly warm and pliable!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most interesting part came when Scott broke the recipe down to put in one of his all-cookie ratio tables. Would you believe that Swedish Oatmeal Thins<\/em> turn out to be all but identical to our recipe for the deep south’s famous recipe for Benne a\/k\/a Sesame Wafers<\/em>? Talk about parallel development!<\/p>\n\n\n

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We’ve now tested the cookies plain, drizzled with chocolate, and sandwiched into a serious, four-bite, chocolate oatmeal sandwich. Every one of those was fantastic. A ten out of ten for good, old fashioned yumminess. The texture is crisp, and stays that way. The flavor has that irresistible caramel\/vanilla\/oatmeal essence we’ve searched for over the years. And both of those features stay that way over time. What more could you want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for ease… wow. This is one of the fastest and simplest cookies we’ve ever come across. No exaggeration: Scott decided to race the clock for our final test batch. He put the oven on to preheat toward 350\u00b0<\/strong>, and then hurried to put the dough together and set up the trays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready… set… go. Melt butter; measure out the dry ingredients; stir in the butter; and then stir in the vanilla and egg. Dough done, oven at only 275\u00b0<\/strong>. Form balls of dough, array on the trays, and… oven at 337\u00b0<\/strong>. The cookies were ready to bake before the oven could finish preheating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That<\/em>, my friends, is a cookie that comes together fast<\/em>. Dump, stir, scoop with a spoon, form into balls, and bake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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