Possibly, your butter is too soft. After mixing the cookie dough, place it
into the refrigerator for a few minutes to chill it and firm it up.

I like using a cookie scoop to speed up my work and get uniform size
cookies.

I love oatmeal cookies, usually use a recipe right on the box of oatmeal.

Rina


"brickled" > wrote in message
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> hello all,
>
> seems every time we make these, they want to burn on the edges, all the
> while the middle is uncooked and more times than not the entire cookie
> ends
> up "flattening" (appears the cookie is melting rather than cooking) out so
> far that it just turns out to be a gigantic mess in the pan. the end
> result
> is so far from what one would expect that it seems unfathomable that we
> actually followed the recipe.