These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies truly are the best I’ve tried! They’re soft in the middle and chewy around the edges. Absolutely addicting!
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The Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Growing up there was pretty much just a handful of cookies that we (as in the royal ‘we’ that would pretty much just be ‘me’) would make at home to satisfy the old sweet tooth. No-Bake Cookies, Sugar Cookies and Snickerdoodles were all part of the arsenal. But none got as much action as this oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe did in my teenage cookie craving days.
I’m pretty surprised it’s taken me this long to pull these oatmeal choc chip cookies out of the proverbial hat and post on the blog. But in reality, I’ve been giving this recipe the cold shoulder while I’ve been on the search for the ‘perfect’ chocolate chip cookie. You know, the one that makes me weak in the knees, the one that has me reaching for a glass of the coldest mug of dunkable milk.
After making these babies again for the first time in several years, I’m convinced I was looking in all the wrong places, and that like so many things in life, I had the ‘perfect’ formula in front of me all along.
This oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe came from my mom’s friend Annette and was the only chocolate chip cookie I made until the age of about 26 since it was the only chocolate chip cookie recipe I could fathom to exist. Until the afore-mentioned quest led me astray. Until I FINALLY experienced for myself that the grass is not always greener.
Oh jeez. Such vivid memories of me in my mom’s kitchen, packing the brown sugar into a measuring cup straight from the old blue tupperware container with a slice of bread atop to keep the sugar soft. The old, browned cookie sheets that I recently discovered my mom STILL has (I’m pretty sure she still has the blue tupperware too) and the old yellow Oster hand mixer that would barely churn through the dough once the oatmeal was added so that I always ended up mixing with the wooden spoon at the end instead.
The unique thing about this recipe, so far as I can tell, is the instruction to dissolve the baking soda in water before adding it to the mix. I’ve seen a lot of recipes for cookies (thank you, Maria) and this is one technique I haven’t seen before. But I always did it because the recipe said so. I think now it must help get a head start on activating the soda. If anyone has insight, please share so I can sleep at night.
My favorite part of the recipe? How chewy and soft these honey childs are thanks to the 4 cups of oatmeal and the crunch of pecans. These oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are almost more like what healthified granola bars only wish they could become when they grown up.
What’s in These Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies?
You don’t need any special ingredients to make the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Here’s what I’ve been putting into these cookies for years:
- Unsalted butter
- Granulated sugar
- Dark brown sugar
- Eggs
- Hot water
- Baking soda
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour
- Kosher salt
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Chopped pecans
- Quick oats
How to Make Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is a pretty classic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. Cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy, then add in the eggs and vanilla.
Sift the dry ingredients together in a bowl, then add to the mixing bowl along with the baking soda that’s been dissolved in hot water. The chocolate chips, oats, and pecans go in last.
Drop heaping tablespoons of cookie dough onto parchment paper-lined baking trays and bake these babies until golden around the edges.
Can I Freeze Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Yes, you can freeze the baked cookies once they’ve completely cooled. When you’re ready to eat the frozen cookies, either reheat them in the oven or microwave, or set them on the counter to thaw.
Can I Omit the Pecans?
If you have a nut allergy, you’re welcome to omit the pecans. Otherwise, I highly recommend adding them in since the slight crunch they add to these oatmeal choc chip cookies is unbeatable.
Tips for the Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Note that this oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe calls for quick oats and not old-fashioned oats. If you don’t have quick oats on hand, you can achieve a similar consistency by blending regular old-fashioned oats in a blender until finely chopped (almost powdery).
This recipe is fairly flexible when it comes to the mix-ins. You could use chopped walnuts or macadamia nuts instead of pecans, and the semi-sweet chocolate chips could easily be replaced with milk or dark chocolate chips.
Be sure to take the cookies out of the oven as soon as they turn slightly golden around the edges. If you leave the cookies in for much longer, you’ll over bake them.
More Easy Cookie Recipes You’ll Love
- Cranberry White Chocolate Chip and Macadamia Nut Cookies
- Flourless Chewy Cinnamon Sugar Peanut Butter Cookies
- Milk Bar’s Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- The Best No-Bake Cookies with Coconut
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsalted butter
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cups dark brown sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 tablespoons hot water
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 package semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
- 4 cups quick oats
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Cream the butter and sugars in the bowl of a stand mixer set to medium-high until creamy, light and fluffy, about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add eggs one at a time, mixing well in between additions. Add in the vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl, sift the flour and salt together.
- In a ramekin or small bowl dissolve the baking soda in the hot water and add ⅓ of mixture to creamed mix, alternating with 1 cup of dry ingredients and repeat until.
- Reduce the mixer speed to low and add the chocolate chips, pecans and quick oats and mix until just combined.
- Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and drop a heaping tablespoon of dough onto the cookie sheet about 2 inches apart from each other. Bake one sheet of cookies at a time for 10 minutes or until just golden.
- Remove from oven and let cool on the cookie sheet for 3-4 minutes then move to a wire cooling rack until completely cooled.
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Courtnie
I’d make cookies!
SEAS
German Chocolate Cake!
Audrey
I’ve always wanted a kitchenaid mixer!!! Hoping I win!
sandra
I would love to figure out how to make my grandmother’s sponge cake – she took the recipe to the grave but I think a cousin has approximated it and I could use this stand mixer to make it!!
Cheryl C
I would make these cookies and pizza dough!!!
Elizabeth
Several batches of different cookies, of course!
Jessica Dawson
I’d make cookies that actually taste good. Something about my by-hand technique is not working out…
Amy S
I think these chocolate chip oatmeal cookies would be the first thing I’d make in the new mixer!
Annalise
Isn’t it funny how we grow up and think that we can go out and find better recipes than the ones we grew up with? Silly us. These cookies look perfect!
Yvette
I’d make my hubby’s favorite lemon-lime pie.
Ashley @ Wishes and Dishes
I would make THESE cookies with the kitchenaid mixer! You know, I’m so glad you posted this recipe. I posted my mom’s oatmeal chocolate chip recipe last week and a lot of people ragged on me saying they should have had raisins instead of the chocolate chips. I think they are awesome this way!
LeTania
I would definitely make a chocolate cake for my son’s second birthday!
Heidi Babi
Double chocolate and peanut butter sandwich cookies. Oh yum!
Katie Fawkes
I would totally LOVE winning this mixer. I would make tons and tons of my all-time favorite dark chocolate and sour cherry cookies :) Your oatmeal cookies look amazing. They inspire me to go back and bake some more.
Katy G
I would have to make a cake with home made buttercream. I love homemade frosting but hate mixing it with my hand mixer!
Jen
The first thing I would make with my new blender would be … my friends jealous over my super cute new kitchen accessory! then i would make my grandmother her favorite red velvet cake and surprise her with a visit!
Candice
The cookies look delicious! If I want them crunchy, how do I achieve that?
Thanks.
Julie North
the first thing I would make is homemade bread
Guin R
A lemon cake, I’ve been wanting to make cakes lately.
Auntiepatch
Oh, sorry, I love chocolate chip oatmeal walnut cookies with coconut. That’s what I would make first!
Liz
They look and I’m sure – delicious! Have a wonderful day!
Auntiepatch
I made coconut macaroons last week and my mixer was going “Ahhh-huh! Ahhh-Huh! Ahhh-Huh!” Hummm……………..I guess I’ll be looking at new ones. Love this color!
Gina
I love putting chocolate chips in my oatmeal cookies. My hubs is all about the raisins- so I usually break the batch in half & do both. :)
nessa
I’d try these cookies!
Melissa M.
I would love to try out your Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies- sound so yummy!
Barbara | Creative Culinary
I have a similar book with a similar recipe and I’ve done something very similar. Poor forgotten chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Thanks for the reminder of just how yummy they are; what were we thinking? :)
Tina S.
Buttercream icing. I’ve only made it once before (with a hand mixer) and, although it turned out fine, I said that I would buy a stand mixer before I ever made it again.
Jessica
I would make homemade whole wheat bread!
Sunnie
I would make a chocolate sheet cake.
Kathy F.
The first thing I would make is my favorite….a Red Velvet Cake. YUM!
Kim S.
I have wanted one of these for SOOOOOOO long. The first thing I would make is whipped cream!
Kathy
I would make my granddaughter’s chocolate birthday cake.
Louise Kressly
I would make chocolate chip cookies for my three teenage boys, their favorite cookie!
Angela
These cookies look fantastic! I’d bake them and then I think I’d continue onto a cake, then maybe bread… Endless possibilities!
pattyabr
great cookie recipe – I was looking for something to make my grown up kids who are home visiting over Memorial Day weekend.yum. What a nice giveaway. My daughter is starting vet school in the fall and will be a poor student. She would love this mixer.
Jeana
Some bread that needs a loooooot of kneading, to rest my weary arms!
Cheryl S
This particular recipe! It’s been ages since we made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, and these look divine.
Nichol Perez
My kids and I would make cupcakes
Trish
I would make a chocolate cake for the family, it’s been awhile since we’ve had one.
Yael
Bread-definitely bread!
Wendy
Snickerdoodles are a huge favorite around here but the oatmeal chocolate chip recipe you shared is quickly gaining votes!
Veronica
The first thing I would make with my stand mixer is a chocolate cake recipe I can’t wait to try.
Anne B
These Oatmeal Chocolate Chip would be so easy to make with a Kitchenaid stand mixer!
Carin
Delicious!
Laura G.Turcotte
Cookies—definitely cookies!! With my gang here, cookies disappear very quickly!!!
Tiffany M.
I would make a really great loaf of bread and a birthday cake for my mama.
Jen
I would make malasadas!
Lily Sheng
I’d first make bread, pizza, anything doughy!
endwillnev
Bread!
endwillnev
Lots and lots of bread!
Kiran @ KiranTarun.com
Awesome giveaway!! And I love oatmeal choc chip cookies. Comfort snack at it’s best ;)
patti
Those cookies are delicious and I’ve tried many recipes through the years, be careful not to over bake them, I remove them just before they look completely baked, but I prefer my cookies to be soft. Yes I still have the blue bowl with the bread slice on top of the brown sugar, it goes perfectly with my slightly askew whisk. Your cookies look beautiful Heidi, I’ll have two for breakfast.
Shawna
Homemade cookies!
Stephie @ Eat Your Heart Out
I have a super retro date bread recipe from my great-grandmother, and it also calls for dissolving the baking soda. Maybe it’s just a retro recipe thing? Hard to say, but I always do it, too. Guess we just inherently trust those old, stand-by recipes. :-)
Jennifer C.
I would make cake with buttercream frosting
Laura (Tutti Dolci)
Loving the 4 cups of oats in these!
Karen
As a kid my mom would would make a double (sometimes triple) batch of oatmeal cookies with the recipe on the side of the Quaker Oats box. Some of the dough got baked as is but from there the dough it got divided up- some got raisins, some got nuts, some coconut and the largest some got chocolate chips. They were a super hit at our house with each of us having their favorites.
I’m all in for trying these.
May
I would probably make a huge batch of Momofuku Milk Bar Fruity Pebble Crunch Cookies! Trying to cream the butter and sugar for cookie recipes has already destroyed one of my hand mixers and the other one is dangerously close.
Emily
These are my favorite cookies–well, at least one of them. And I’m pretty sure this recipe would be the first I’d make with the mixer. Or maybe my favorite peanut butter cookies. Or chocolate toffee almond cookies.
Cori
My moms recipe for whip cream frosting on chocolate cake. Its a very touchy recipe and a hand mixer doesn’t work.
Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious
Did you bring any of these cookies with you to Carmel Valley Ranch? :)
joan s
well of course i’d have to make these cookies. and i sure would like a kitchenaid in that beautiful sea-blue color!
dana
oh man, these cookies would be perfect alongside my afternoon iced latte! AND I’ve been swooning over other blogger’s stand mixers for a while now. Would love to have one of my own!
Danyelle
Oatmeal crasin cookies!
Heather
Michael Chiarello’s “Unscotti” to ship to my deployed husband! (Less likely to be harder than concrete upon arrival with only one bake!)
Robin
The first thing I would make is my favorite recipe: whole wheat molasses bread.
Rachel @ Baked by Rachel
I’m so glad you used chocolate chips instead of raisins!
Ally's Sweet & Savory Eats
First I would give my old KitchenAid to my mom, who desperately wants one….and then with my new one I’d tackle homemade bread!
Stefanie @ Sarcastic Cooking
Aaaaa! My mom has that Oster yellow hand mixer too!!!!! Memories…. I need these cookies now. Ok maybe tomorrow. But I am for sure making these!
Bethany Wichman
I would make my favorite banana millet muffins! :)
Tracey
I would love to make a big batch of white chocolate chip cookies in my first ever stand mixer!
Lisa Harris
Well, now that you have me good and hungry for chocolate chip cookies, I would have to whip me up a batch of my momma’s chocolate chip cookies with that beauty!
Mary
I would make a birthday cake. Not because it’s anyone I know’s birthday, but because why not?
Michelle
The first thing I would make would have to be cookies – satisfy that sweet tooth!
Bridget @ champagne Frosting
I think I would have to whip up an extra tall 4 layer chocolate cake with mounds of vanilla frosting!!
Maria
gluten-free chocolate chip almond cookies, please!!! loaded with lots of dark chocolate chunks. yum!
Tatiana
I would make pretzel dough because I want to make a cheeseburger on a pretzel bun. Everytime I see it on the Food Network, it gets my mouth watering!
Chelsea
I would make strawberry muffins!
Marissa
I would make peanut butter cookies! I made cookies over the weekend and mixing by hand is quite a pain!
Andrianna
Oatmeal raisin cookies are always the right way to go. Maybe dipped in a little (or a lot!) of dark chocolate.
Barbara @ Barbara Bakes
I haven’t baked enough cookies lately. These sound perfect.
Tracey Davidson
Yum! These cookies sound delicious! I think the first thing I’d make, though, would be my mother’s recipe for 7-Up Pound Cake. All that creaming together of butter, eggs and sugar would put this KitchenAid to good use!
Karen
Cookies. Lots and lots of cookies.
Erika-Southern Souffle
Oh My Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie!! I would eat the entire batch all by myself!! No shame.. no shame at all.. :)
Yvette N.
I think the first recipe I’d make with a new mixer would be your featured Oatmeal Chocolate Chip
Cookie. The idea that you dissolve the baking soda in water is fascinating to me, too.
YP
I just moved to a new place and need to fill it with yummy cookie scent, and this is the perfect recipe for that!
I also need to fill my kitchen with appliances, so, this stand mixer wouldnt hurt either!
nom!
xo
Leah
I would totally make chocolate chip cookies! Such a classic!
Anna @ Crunchy Creamy Sweet
These cookies look scrumptious! I would make a huge batch too!
Abby @ The Frosted Vegan
What an oldie but goodie, the more chocolate chips the better!
Kristina
I have all kinds of bread recipes that say you can use a stand mixer. I’m interested to try since I usually make my breads by hand
Deborah
Oatmeal cookies are one of my favorites, and these do look like the perfect oatmeal cookies!
ElizabethB
These cookies look great! They are now on my list to make as soon as I am back home next week :)
Tieghan
These look like the best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! Seriously, I think I needs these for breakfast!
cassie
cookies for sure. Maybe even these ones! Oatmeal are my fav & who doesn’t love choc chips
Maria@PinkPatisserie
I’d make Swedish Cardamom Buns! I love the color of that mixer. Gorgeous!
Jen @ Savory Simple
You can never go wrong with oatmeal cookies!
Meg
I always try to make the perfect cookie but it never works! I’ll try this one and hope for the best!
Matilda
I just love baking cakes right now! I’m on the hunt for the perfect recipe and the mixer would sure help with that!
Averie @ Averie Cooks
Ironically I made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies today too – along with the stand mixer giveaway. Couldn’t have planned it if we tried! Yours look wonderful!
Caroline
The first thing I would make with that gorgeous mixer is a pavlova! It’s on my “must make” list!