Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

This is a recipe from Veganomicon that I hadn’t tried yet: Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Romero always have totally foolproof recipes, but I’ve noticed a couple of their cookie recipes are a tad temperamental for me, so I was very glad to be able to put these firmly in the Reliable Standby column along with most of their recipes. These look kind of health-food-y, but they taste so caramelly and dessert-like. Ironically, this is due to the inclusion of a rather health-food-y ingredient along with the brown sugar: brown rice syrup. This stuff is expensive and kind of hard to find, but a bottle lasts for multiple dessert recipes, and when mixed with other things like brown sugar and vanilla, tastes like rich caramel.