Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

These homemade chocolate chip oatmeal cookies satisfy your sweet tooth in the best way! This recipe also makes six dozen, plenty to share. It’s not often that I share a dessert or treat recipe, although if Matt had it his way, I would be baking him cookies all the time. And cakes. And pies.

This recipe is one that was made in my house often as I was growing up. I love seeing my mom’s handwriting on faded, yellowed recipe cards. When I make one of her recipes, it feels like I’m also honoring her memory. I’m transported to our tiny little kitchen where she would line the kitchen table with paper towels for the cookies to cool on. We always snitched a few and she didn’t seem to mind one bit! At least, we never thought so.

How To Make Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

I find that using butter and eggs at room temperature in baking recipes yields the best results. However, I don’t recommend hurrying the recipe by semi-melting the butter in your microwave. Both melting the butter, and not mixing it in thoroughly, will lead to flat cookies!

There are no ingredient surprises in this recipe, and nuts are optional. I don’t typically put nuts in cookies, but in this particular instance, I used sliced almonds I bought for my celebration salad recipe a few weeks ago. If you like nuts in cookies, you can add any chopped nut you wish. The oatmeal I’m using is the quick-cooking variety and I used skim milk.

Although this recipe calls for an entire bag of chocolate chips, I only used half a bag and I feel that’s plenty. If you really love chocolate, by all means, use the entire bag! ? Also, I did not roll the cookies. They’re placed on the cookie sheet with a spoon, so the cookies will have a more organic, homemade kind of shape.

Cookie Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter at room temp
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed firmly
• 2 eggs at room temp
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups quick rolled oats
• 1 bag semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped nuts, optional

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine the butter, sugars, eggs, milk, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth.
3. Gently stir the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl.
4. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Stir by hand at this point until smooth.
5. Next, stir in the quick oats, chocolate chips, and optional nuts to the batter.
6. Drop by generous teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or Silpat.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 12 minutes or until light brown. 
8. Cool on racks and store in an airtight container or freeze to enjoy later.

If you try out this recipe, please let me know what you think. I hope you love these homemade chocolate chip oatmeal cookies as much as we do!