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Easy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Your whole family is going to love our soft and chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe with a delicate crispy edge. Nothing compares to a warm cookie fresh from the oven. Especially when your kitchen is filled with the essence of warm cinnamon. They’re exactly how old-fashioned cookies were meant to be.

Three Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies on a counter.

Freshly baked cookies are what memories are made of. Can you remember baking cookies with your mother or Nana? If you have kids still at home, enjoy making cookies together. You will be teaching them life skills and they will love every delicious minute of it.

Ingredients for the Best Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Here’s what you will need to make these amazing cookies.

Ingredients used to make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies including butter, oats, flour, brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon, eggs, cinnamon, and salt. Hostess At Heart
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie Ingredients
  • Butter. The real stuff! There isn’t any additional salt in this recipe so you can use salted or unsalted butter. Soften to room temperature.
  • Sugar. White granulated sugar.
  • Dark Brown Sugar. You can use light brown sugar if that’s what you prefer.
  • Eggs. Large eggs lightly beaten.
  • Vanilla Extract.
  • Baking Soda.
  • All-Purpose Flour.
  • Cinnamon.
  • Quick Cooking Oats. Old-fashioned oats can work too.
  • Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips.

How to make Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best part about making cookies is how simple it is. Follow these instructions to have the perfect cookie every time.

Before you get started, preheat the oven and line cookie sheets with parchment paper. They are in the oven for such a short amount of time, you want the oven at the optimal temperature before you start. Don’t leave the oven open for an extended amount of time either.

Step 1: Cream the sugar with the fat. I use an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and will cream the ingredients together for 3 to 5 minutes or until they’re light and fluffy. I explain this further in our Basic Techniques information.

Step 2: In a separate bowl, lightly beat the eggs. Then add the eggs and vanilla to the creamed mixture and blend it briefly.

Whisking flour, cinnamon, and baking soda together - Hostess At Heart
Whisk dry ingredients together

Step 3: Whisk the dry ingredients together separately, and then add the dry mixture to the creamed mixture.

Dry cookie ingredients added to creamy ingredients by the spoonful - Hostess At Heart
Combine dry ingredients

Step 4: Finally, add the chocolate chips and oatmeal gently, either by hand or with the mixer on low.

Oatmeal and chocolate chips being folded into creamy cookie dough in a bowl - Hostess At Heart
Add chocolate chips and oats

Step: 5 For this recipe, I like to use a three-tablespoon cookie scoop to make large cookies, but you can definitely make smaller cookies. You may have to reduce the baking time. Bake the cookies until they’re lightly golden brown on the edges. Don’t overbake, these are soft and chewy oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Scooped cookie dough on a baking sheet.

You can add variety to this favorite cookie by mixing in 1/2 cup of any of the following.

  • Add nuts like walnuts or pecans.
  • Use chocolate chunks instead of chips.
  • Add white chocolate chips.
  • Add raisins. – If you want oatmeal raisin cookies these are the best!
  • Use dried cranberries (craisins).
Stack of cookies from the  Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

FAQ’s

Can I use old-fashioned oats instead of quick oats in cookies?

We will substitute old-fashioned oats for quick oats but rarely the other way around. Quick-cooking oats and old fashioned oats are interchangeable. However, they do have an effect on the texture and moisture of the cookie. We used quick oats in this recipe. Old-fashioned oats will work as well and create chewier cookies.

Why are my chocolate chip oatmeal cookies flat?

So I didn’t actually have to chill these cookies, but if your cookies are too flat it is possible that the dough was too warm when you started. This can be affected by climate, warm hands, or warm ingredients. If you find that your cookies are consistently flat try sticking the dough in the refrigerator for about thirty minutes.

You also want to make sure that your baking soda is fresh. It can lose its’ potency.

The best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies ever! On a cooling rack.

Hostess Tips for the Best Results

  • It’s super easy to make this recipe, but there are a few things to remember to make sure your cookies are the best of the best.
  • Don’t over mix the dough. Over mixing causes cookies to be tough and dry.
  • After you’ve put your cookie dough on a baking sheet, press a few chocolate chips into the top. Everyone wants chocolate chips and these cookies will definitely satisfy that craving.
  • Do not overbake cookies. It is incredibly tempting to walk away from cookies in the oven without a timer. It is even more tempting to think they aren’t quite finished when the timer goes off. I’m likely to get sidetracked so I always set a timer 1/2 way through baking so I can turn the baking sheet and then set the timer for the rest of the time as soon as I close the oven door.
  • Pull them out as soon as the edges start to brown or your cookies will not be soft and chewy. The center of oatmeal cookies will never look quite done when you pull them out, but they will continue to bake and firm up in the middle as they sit on your cooling rack.
  • We let our cookies sit on the hot baking sheet for 5 minutes to set up and then move them to the cooling rack to finish cooling. You can also devour them at this point. I know this from experience!
  • Oatmeal does get stale or go bad eventually. Keep your opened oatmeal in an airtight plastic container. The round cylinder containers do not hold up well to storage and continued use once opened. Try to use oatmeal within a few months of opening the container.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies on a tray.

How to Store Cookies

Your baked cookies can be stored in a plastic zipper baggy for several days. An airtight container will keep them fresh even longer. These chocolate chip oatmeal cookies aren’t likely to last long enough to go stale.

Did you know you can actually store the uncooked dough? This dough can be chilled for several days in the refrigerator as long as the container is airtight. You can bake the cookies directly from the refrigerator and may have to lengthen the bake time ever so slightly.

Unbaked cookie dough can also be frozen. I recommend creating cookie-sized portions, freezing them on a sheet pan that fits in your freezer, and then removing them from the pan and transferring them to a freezer-safe plastic zipper bag or airtight container for long-term storage.

You can then bake the cookies from frozen, and simply add a few extra minutes to the baking time. This works like a charm to pre-make cookies in bulk and then bake only as much as you need. The next time you have a cookie craving, you can remove them from the freezer bag and have homemade oatmeal cookies within minutes.

Top down photo of three chocolate chip oatmeal cookies sitting around scattered chocolate chips and oats.

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Top down view of three oatmeal chocolate chip cookies on a tray surrounded by chocolate chips and oats. Hostess At Heart

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Author: Julie Menghini
Your whole family is going to love our soft and chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe with a delicate crispy edge.
5 from 8 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 27 minutes
Course Cookies, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword: Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe, Cookies, Oatmeal
Servings: 47 Cookies

Ingredients
 
 

  • cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar (we use dark but the light is fine)
  • 3 eggs (large, lightly beaten)
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 cups quick oats (old-fashioned oats can work too)
  • 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips (1½ cups plus some for garnish)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 °F and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, brown sugar, and sugar together for 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix just until blended, 30 seconds.
  • In a medium-sized bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and cinnamon together. Whisk to combine.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the mixer and blend on low for 30 seconds. Turn up the speed to medium and mix until no flour is visible.
  • Add the oats and chocolate chips. Blend on low until combined.
  • Scoop out 3 tablespoons of dough and place them on the parchment paper-lined baking sheet, 12 to a sheet. Press in a few chocolate chips into the top for garnish.
  • Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned on the edges.
  • Cool on the baking sheet over a cooling rack for 5 to 6 minutes and then remove the cookies to a cooling rack. Cool completely before storing.

Notes

Don’t over mix the dough. That will create a tougher cookie with less texture.
We use a 3-tablespoon scoop for large cookies. You can make smaller cookies. The baking time may be reduced.
Don’t overbake these cookies. We remove them from the oven when the edges just start to brown lightly and let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing them from the pan to a cooling rack.

Nutrition

Calories: 195kcalCarbohydrates: 26gProtein: 2gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 26mgSodium: 105mgPotassium: 72mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 200IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 15mgIron: 1mg

Nutritional Disclaimer

This recipe was calculated using the exact brands and measurements I used to make this recipe. If you are following a strict diet please note changing anything will cause the nutritional info to change. My calculations are intended as a guide only.

Tried this recipe?Let me know how it was!
Top down photo of 3 Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies surrounded by chocolate chips and oats.
5 from 8 votes
Recipe Rating




Michaela Kenkel

Tuesday 26th of October 2021

This recipe is a KEEPER!! I have already made them twice!! We love them!

Julie Menghini

Wednesday 27th of October 2021

Thank you, Michaela!

Kathleen Pope

Tuesday 26th of October 2021

Thank you for not putting raisins in this glorious cookies! And I love that you gave options for the various types of oats, I only had regular rolled oats, so I used those, so chewy and delicious!

Min

Tuesday 26th of October 2021

Absolutely delicious and super easy to make! I added pecans for that crunchy texture and it was perfect. THANK YOU for the awesome recipe!

Matt

Thursday 21st of October 2021

Oatmeal cookies are one of my favorites. Love the chewy texture and flavor. Never added chocolate chips until now. Thanks!

Julie Menghini

Saturday 23rd of October 2021

I'm with you, Matt! We loved the soft chewy texture and flavor of these cookies too!

Cathleen

Thursday 21st of October 2021

I need to try these cookies! This looks perfect, I can't resist a good oatmeal cookie. Thank you so much for the recipe :)

Julie Menghini

Saturday 23rd of October 2021

We love our cookies too, Cathleen! Thank you!

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