🥜🍪 My Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are lightly crisp around the edges, soft, chewy, and LOADED with nutty flavor and rich chocolate chips in every bite! Why choose between oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, or soft chocolate chip cookies when you can have them all?
Why You’ll Love These Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
A personal favorite of mine, these cookies combine elements from all my favorite cookies. The recipe is adapted from and very similar to the Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookie recipe, making it virtually foolproof.
- All you need is one bowl and a spoon, and these cookies are ready to eat in about 30 minutes.
- The higher ratio of brown to white sugar and egg yolk to egg white results in a super soft centers and a chewy texture.
- There’s no chilling required, and one batch makes 13 large cookies, making it the perfect treat for all your cookie cravings. I’d go ahead and make an extra batch before you find yourself snacking. They’re seriously addicting!
Ingredients You’ll Need
There’s a LOT of flavor packed into every bite of these cookies, all thanks to just a handful of simple ingredients. Here’s what you’ll need for this chocolate chip peanut butter oatmeal cookie recipe:
- Butter – I recommend using unsalted butter and letting it come to room temperature for easy mixing. Feel free to use margarine or a vegan butter for dairy-free cookies
- Sugar – The combination of brown sugar (light or dark) and granulated sugar sweetens the dough, adds a touch of molasses flavor, and contributes to the chewy texture
- Peanut Butter – Use creamy peanut butter. I recommend a brand like Jif or Skippy. Natural peanut butter tends to separate and cause greasy cookies. I also don’t recommend crunchy peanut butter, because it won’t incorporat into the dough evenly. Have leftover peanut butter? Check out my peanut butter cookbook to put it to good use!
- Eggs – For vegan cookies, substitute a flax egg
- Vanilla Extract
- Flour – I use all-purpose flour. If you need gluten-free cookies, substitute a 1:1 all-purpose gluten-free flour. Then, make sure to double-check the nutrition label on the rest of the ingredients
- Oats – Make sure to use old-fashioned oats. Quick oats and steel-cut oats will NOT work for this recipe! For gluten-free cookies, make sure to use certified gluten-free oats
- Baking Soda
- Mix-Ins – I use semi-sweet chocolate chips, but you can use milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips. Or, experiment with mix-ins like peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips, toffee bits, raisins, nuts, seeds, etc. I don’t recommend adding more than 1/2 cup, or your cookies will just be way too packed
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Melt the peanut butter and butter in the microwave in a large mixing bowl. Then, stir in the remaining wet ingredients. Wait a few minutes before combining ingredients to avoid scrambling the eggs! There’s no need for an electric mixer or stand mixer!
- Add the oats, followed by the remaining dry ingredients. Fold in the chocolate chips or mix-ins of choice.
- Portion the dough, and chill it in the fridge.
- Arrange the cookie dough balls on a silpat mat or parchment paper lined baking sheet, leaving space between each cookie. Bake until the edges and tops are just set. (I like very underdone and soft cookies, so I baked mine for 10 minutes) The cookies will look pretty raw even at 12 minutes, and that’s ok. Take them out and let them sit and cool well before eating.
- Cool on the pan. There’s no need for a wire rack!
Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- 1 Large, Microwave-Safe Bowl
- 1 Cookie Sheet
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
- ⅓ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk, discard extra white or save for another use
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup old-fashioned whole rolled oats, not instant or quick cook
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup peanut butter chips, white chocolate or butterscotch chips may be substituted
Instructions
- To a large, microwave-safe bowl add the butter, peanut butter, and heat on high power to melt, about 1 minute. Stop to check and stir. Heat in 15-second increments until mixture can be stirred smooth.
- Wait momentarily before adding the egg and yolk so you don’t scramble them. Add the egg, sugars, vanilla, and whisk until combined. It’s okay if mixture is slightly granular.
- Add the oats and stir to combine.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt, and stir to combine; don’t overmix. Dough is fairly thick.
- Add the chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and stir to incorporate.
- Using a large cookie scoop, 1/4-cup measure, or your hands, form approximately 13 equal-sized mounds of dough, roll into balls, and flatten slightly. Tip – Strategically place a few chocolate chips on top of each mound of dough by taking chips from the underside and adding them on top.
- Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading. Dough is a bit on the oily side before chilling and becomes less oily as it chills.
- Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray. Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 8 cookies per sheet).
- Bake for about 11 to 12 minutes (for very soft cookies, longer for more well-done cookies), or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don’t overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack.
Notes
- Cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
- Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Edited to add the following related cookie recipes – November 2012
Chocolate Chip and Chunk Cookies – This is my new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe for straight up chocolate chip cookies, without oats or peanut butter added. They are soft, chewy, tender, moist, a snap to make, and have two kinds of chocolate in every bite. They are my new go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe
New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies (from Jacques Torres) – I learned many valuable lessons when making these cookies, from loving bread flour in cookies to detesting cake flour in them; to baking cookies bigger to stuffing in extra chocolate. The cookies are very good, and I loved them on the first day, and I wrote extensively about my thoughts overall on them.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Skillet Cookie – This cookie combines three of my favorite cookies into one – chocolate chip, peanut butter, and oatmeal. The edges bake up crispy and chewy, and sweetened condensed milk is baked into the cookie, keeping the interior a literal hot, sweet, and gooey mess.
I love all of the same cookies you do, as well as my great-grandmother’s molasses cookie recipe, heaven! My family can polish off a batch in a few hours ;) For chocolate chip cookies, I love Toll House and Best Recipe.
molasses cookies are amazing…my grandma made the best ones! I wish i had her recipe…if you have a great one, LMK!
Chocolate Chip cookies are definitely my favorite, although not my family’s recipe. I think I’m the only person in the world who doesn’t have a dish that is the best when made by one of my relatives.
My mom even knows how much I don’t like her CC cookie recipe. It’s just everything that is wrong with a cookie. I like thin, dense and chewy. Here’s are like a pound, thick, and hard. When they are fresh from the oven they are somewhat cake-like, but after they have cooled you could injure someone with one of those puppies!
My Grandma wasn’t a cook, she was all about store-bought cookies. So I just don’t have those same memories that other people do.
Awesome cookie recipe, my hubby would probably go nuts for these! And simply gorgeous pics, suitable for framin. :-)
1. Lately I’m been digging raw balls of vaious varieties, anything with a little crunch and chocolate.
2. Nope, but maybe I should for the balls.
3. Not at the moment, but this looks fabulous.
“And simply gorgeous pics, suitable for framin. :-)” <--- thank you
my favorite kind of cookie is oatmeal raisin. as much as i love the fancy-schmany versions and cookies with a million fun mix-ins, there’s something about an old-fashioned oatmeal raisin cookie without the bells and whistles that is so delicious!!
that’s what I tried to do with my oatmeal raisin cookies that I linked in this post…old school and basic b/c me too…i love a good ole fashioned oatmeal raisin cookie.
Those look so good! I love how you have all of the elements in there of so many good cookies!
“Let’s do the math. Ok let’s not.” Hahaha, ignorance is bliss I like to say.
Another awesome cookie recipe Averie they look beautiful!!
I am so torn on my fave cookie. It’s between PB and Oatmeal Raisin. Of course, only if they are made “just” right ;-) Of course, that’s the case with any cookie. Hate it when you go in thinking it’s going to be great and it’s too dry, hard as a rock, or just plain awful.
Chocolate chip cookies are my fav! I haven’t used a cookie scoop but I might have to check it out…I do love my new silpat..now I just need to get the next size up!
Have a great day!
I need more Silpats. I only have 1, and 1 flexipat, but I need to get at least 1 more Silpat and maybe 2 so that I can make a normal size batch of cookies all at once.
These look awesome!
My fave cookie: “On Top of the Stove” cookies – they’re pb, chocolate and oatmeal too. Also called Boiled cookies…ever had them??
No Ive never even heard of those…they sound fun!
YUMMM! Those are three of my favorite cookies, too. I haven’t met a cookie I don’t care for though. :)
I need to get one of those cookie scoops! My little red dipper broke; not as fun now that it doesn’t spring out, lol.
These look wonderful! Chocolate chip cookies are always a winner. I recently bought a cupcake scoop and am in love. I can’t wait to check out this cookie scoop!
Just about every kind of cookie is my favorite. These look absolutely delicious. I will definitley have to try them out! :)
OMG these look so good! You’re incredible with making amazing looking cookies. I’m definitely a peanut butter cookie fan… and the oatmeal/chocolate addition sounds perfect! I’ve never used a cookie scoop before, but it’s a really neat idea, especially if you’re making the cookies for something special and want them to look precise.
Even if you just want them to all bake at the same time/duration, it’s worth it!
i love your inner geek! i am right there with you. I bet that touch of PB is perfect for these! Happy Sunday lovely!
I’ve never seen a cookie scoop like that! The ones I have at home are the ones that get cookie dough stuck in all the crevices of the releasing mechanism…not cool.
The Tollhouse recipe and I have a terrible relationship, haha. Everytime I try to make them, they don’t turn out, not matter what I try. So I’ve just given up and moved on to bigger and better things. If I had access to oven now, I’d make your cookies in a heartbeat! Until then, maybe just the dough. :-)