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Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

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posted: 06/19/19

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This recipe for Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies that are soft, chewy, and the perfect mix of flavors is a keeper! Grab all my tips and tricks for making these the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Looking for another great oatmeal cookie? Make my Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies!

oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sitting on a blue wood board with chocolate chips and oats around it and two cinnamon sticks in the background

Nathan’s favorite cookie is an Oatmeal Raisin Cookie. Loves them. Can’t get enough of them. So naturally . . . . I’m the jerk who decides to make an Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie. I mean, why would you pick raisins when you can have chocolate chips??

I made these Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars last fall and they were a huge hit with all of you. Some people asked if they could just use the same recipe and make them into cookies. The answer is nope! Baking is full of all sorts of reactions with the ingredients and changing up something simple, like the shape of what you are making, makes a big difference.

What Makes These the Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I went through so many different batches of cookies to come up with the Perfect Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies for you. What makes this the perfect recipe:

  • They don’t spread too much.
  • The dough doesn’t need to chill.
  • The cookie texture is the perfect amount of soft and chewy.
  • There is a hint of cinnamon that is magical without being overbearing.

How to Make Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The three most important steps to this cookie dough recipe are:

  1. Creaming the butter and sugar together.
  2. Integrating the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon mixture.
  3. Stirring in the oats and chocolate chips.

It is pretty important that you follow the prompts in each step to make sure that these cookies turn out perfectly. It is critical you cream the butter and sugar enough and not over mix the flour when you add it.

Why Brown Sugar?

This recipe uses both white sugar and brown sugar. While the white sugar is great in this recipe – it brings sweetness and helps the cookies spread – the brown sugar is critical. It is the brown sugar, with the molasses it brings to the party, that keeps these cookies soft and chewy.

What Type of Oats

I’ve made this recipe with both quick cooking and old fashioned oats. Some recipes will tell you that old fashioned oats will yield a chewier cookie, but honestly, I’m not sure that’s what’s making it chewy. I think that has more to do with the ratio of white to brown sugar and how the ingredients were combined. I think you can use either type of oat and both work well.

oatmeal chocolate chip cookie propped up against other cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Tips and Tricks

These are tips that are great for all cookie recipes!

Use room temperature butter.  Do not soften it in the microwave! Let it sit on the counter, cut into one inch pieces, for a half hour. You should be able to press your finger in and dent it easily without pushing it all the way through.

Scoop the flour from the container using a spoon. Flour packs really easily, creating more flour in your recipe than you really want (which is a great way to ruin cookies). To prevent that, don’t use the one cup measure to scoop it from the container. Use a spoon, scoop it into your measuring cup and then level it off.

Thoroughly cream the butter and sugar together.  This process of combining the butter and sugar, or creaming it, is critical. The sugar is adding air to the butter which will not only puff up in the oven, it will actually make it so you get more cookies out of your batch of dough than if you just mixed them together. (Did your mind just explode?)  You need to beat the sugar and butter together until it is light and fluffy and this will take about 5 minutes.

Properly add the flour mixture.  For years and years, I gradually added my flour to my creamed butter and sugar so as to not overbeat it, developing the gluten too much, and creating though cookies. You can find dozens of recipes on my blog that read that way. Recently I read something that sort of blew my mind: Adding it slow actually makes the gluten issue worse! Now I add all of the flour at once, give it a really slow quick mix so it doesn’t fly everywhere, and then a quick high speed mix to integrate it. It adds the flour quicker – win – and it means less over all mixing – double win.

Make sure you scrape your bowl!  Sounds basic, but it’s easy to forget and then during different steps the dough doesn’t stay together as it should.

Invest in a cookie scoop.  I love my cookie scoop! The benefits of using a cookie scoop are that it makes all the cookies the same size so they bake at the same rate. It makes scooping very quick. This is great since your ingredients are already combined and science is already happening in that bowl! Finally, it keeps you from heating up the dough a ton with your hands.

overhead view of the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies on a blue wood board with oatmeal and chocolate chips around it

Other Great Cookie Recipes

Now that you have all these great tips, do you want to make all the cookie recipes you can?? I don’t blame you.

If you make these Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies or any of my other recipes, please leave me a comment and let me know! I love hearing from you!

Stack of Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with a bite taken out of the top cookie.
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Serves: 35 cookies
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Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 12 minutes
Total: 32 minutes
This recipe for Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies that are soft, chewy, and the perfect mix of flavors is a keeper!  Grab all my tips and tricks for making these the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour (240 grams)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • 14 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature (197.75 grams)
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar packed (159.75 grams)
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar (148.5 grams)
  • 2 large eggs room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 cups old fashioned oats quick cooking will also work (180 grams)
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips (170 grams)

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
  • In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
    2 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • In a large bowl with a hand mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until it is light and fluffy. This will take between 3 and 6 minutes.
    14 tablespoons unsalted butter, 3/4 cup light brown sugar, 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • Scrape down the bowl and one at a time beat the eggs into the mixture. Then beat in the vanilla.
    2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • Scrape down the bowl and then add all of the flour mixture into the butter-egg mixture. Beat very low until just incorporated, then turn up the speed to fully incorporate, beating until just combined. Do not over-mix.
  • Gently fold in the oats and then the chocolate chips.
    2 cups old fashioned oats, 1 cup milk chocolate chips
  • Using a 1 1/2 tablespoon cookie scoop to make the cookies consistent in size, scoop out the cookies, gently roll, and then place them 1-2 inches apart on the parchment-lined baking sheet.
  • Bake for about 10 minutes, rotating the sheet halfway during the baking process, or just until the edges of the cookies begin to turn golden brown.
  • Remove the cookies from the oven. Let the cookies sit on the tray for 2 minutes and then remove to a cooling rack.
  • Enjoy right away or store in an airtight container for up to one week.
Serving: 1cookie Calories: 148kcal (7%) Carbohydrates: 21g (7%) Protein: 2g (4%) Fat: 7g (11%) Saturated Fat: 4g (25%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g Monounsaturated Fat: 1g Trans Fat: 0.2g Cholesterol: 21mg (7%) Sodium: 70mg (3%) Potassium: 51mg (1%) Fiber: 1g (4%) Sugar: 12g (13%) Vitamin A: 154IU (3%) Vitamin C: 0.002mg Calcium: 14mg (1%) Iron: 1mg (6%)
Author: Lisa Longley
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Stack of Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with a bite taken out of the top cookie.

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  1. Susan says

    These look fabulous, my question is if you did not want to use chocolate chips could you substitute coconut? I already have a chocolate dessert and looking for an soft chewy oatmeal cookie.

    • Lisa Longley says

      I haven’t tried these with coconut. If you do, let me know how it goes!

      • Susan says

        5 stars
        I made the Chewy Oatmeal cookies this morning and I added about 2 1/2 cups of flaked coconut instead of the chocolate chips, it was warm in the house and the dough was quite soft so I refrigerated it for a couple hours. I scooped enough dough for two cookies as practice, one I left as is with just the coconut. The second cookie I added about a quarter of a piece of Werther’s soft caramel cut into small pieces. I baked them and let them cool, they were both really good, soft and chewy, my daughter in law and I both agreed the one with caramel was the definite winner, those little pieces of chewy caramel melted into little puddles of pure caramel chewy bliss. Not sure if I will ever add chocolate chips to this recipe after coconut and caramel but will make the recipe again. Might try another practice cookie and add some pecans too.

        • Lisa Longley says

          I love that you experimented with it! The caramel in there sounds amazing!! Thank you for coming back to let me know.

  2. Annette Hebbeler says

    you say to use a measuring scoop but you do not say what size to use. I have a small, medium, and large. So to yield 34 cookies, which size scoop would work.

    • Lisa Longley says

      Hi Annette! I use a 1 1/2 tablespoon scoop.

    • Makistine Sokia says

      Cookie scop. I tried it and love it, they are nice and big good size.

  3. Fail says

    Could you use dried cranberries instead of chocolate chips

    • Lisa Longley says

      Yup!

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