Soft Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are super soft, chewy, thick, and bake up perfectly every time. No dough chilling required!
Between these oatmeal raisin cookies and these apple oatmeal cookies, I think it’s safe to say that you all love oatmeal cookies. I can’t say that I blame you either because I love a good oatmeal cookie too.
So, I decided to create a peanut butter oatmeal cookie recipe to share with you. And I have to say these cookies turned out pretty delicious and they’re incredibly easy to make too!
One of my favorite things about this cookie recipe is that there’s no dough chilling required. Whenever I make a batch they usually only take about 30 minutes from start to finish. Well, that’s not including the cooling time but does anyone ever really wait for a cookie to finish cooling first?
Ingredients for This Recipe
These chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies have a fairly short ingredients list. Here’s everything that goes into these cookies:
- All-purpose flour: Spoon and level the flour when measuring it, otherwise you might end up with dense cookies.
- Baking soda: Helps the dough rise in the oven.
- Salt: Enhances the chocolate-peanut butter flavor.
- Unsalted butter: I recommend using unsalted butter since the amount of salt in salted butters can vary between different brands.
- Sugar: I used a blend of brown sugar and granulated sugar in this recipe to sweeten the dough and add some flavor.
- Peanut butter: I recommend using creamy peanut butter in these cookies, but crunchy peanut butter would be fine too.
- Egg: Needs to be room temperature, this helps bind the cookies together.
- Vanilla extract: Use pure vanilla extract, if possible.
- Rolled oats: Also called old-fashioned oats. Instant oats won’t work as well in this recipe.
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips: I used semi-sweet chocolate chips so these cookies didn’t turn out too sweet, but use any kind you’d like!
Can I Use Quick Cooking Oats?
I find that old-fashioned rolled oats work better in oatmeal cookies because they’re larger and create a chewier cookie. Quick cooking oats tend to be more powdery and they’re pressed thinner, so I would suggest sticking to old-fashioned oats if you can. Because the chewier an oatmeal cookie, the better!
How to Make These Cookies
To make these cookies, you’ll start out by creaming together some unsalted butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. By using unsalted butter you can control the amount of salt in your cookies. And of course, I love brown sugar so I prefer to use more of it in cookie recipes because it adds flavor and moisture.
Once you’ve creamed together the butter and sugars, mix in some creamy peanut butter, an egg, and a little bit of pure vanilla extract. I haven’t tested these cookies with a natural peanut butter but I would avoid it if you can, otherwise, the cookies may be a little greasy and spread too much.
Once the wet ingredients are well combined, whisk together your dry ingredients and mix them in until just combined. The dry ingredients are just a simple combination of all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt.
Then, mix in some old-fashioned rolled oats and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Once you’ve mixed up the cookie dough, just scoop it onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake the cookies. To get cookies that are more uniform in size I like to use a 1.5 tablespoon cookie scoop, here’s one similar to the one that I use all of the time.
It also helps to gently press each ball of cookie dough down to help them spread a little in the oven. You don’t want to completely flatten the cookie dough, just slightly press it down. The cookies will spread some in the oven, but still bake up nice and thick!
Storage Instructions
Store peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container on the counter for up to 1 week. Baked cookies will also freeze well for up to 3 months, simply thaw to room temperature before serving.
Baking Tips
- When measuring your flour, avoid scooping it out of the container. Instead, stir the flour around, spoon it into your measuring cup, and level it off with the back of a knife.
- It’s best to use a creamy peanut butter in these cookies like Jif or Skippy versus a natural peanut butter.
- I suggest using old-fashioned rolled oats in these cookies instead of instant/quick-cooking oats.
More Oatmeal Cookie Recipes To Try!
- Small Batch Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Classic No-Bake Cookies
- Apple Oatmeal Cookies
- Oatmeal Scotchies
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup (125 grams) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup (115 grams) unsalted butter , softened to room temperature
- 3/4 cup (150 grams) brown sugar , lightly packed
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (125 grams) creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg , room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups (125 grams) old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup (180 grams) semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar for about 1-2 minutes or until well combined. Mix in the peanut butter, egg, and vanilla extract until fully combined, making sure to stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
- Slowly mix in the dry ingredients until just combined, then mix in the oats. Add the chocolate chips and gently mix them into the cookie dough until well combined.
- Using a 1.5 tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop balls of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheets, making sure to leave a little room between each one. Roll the cookie dough into balls and very gently press down with your hand to flatten each ball of cookie dough slightly (make sure not to flatten them completely, just slightly).
- Bake in separate batches at 350°F for 10-12 minutes or until the tops of the cookies are set. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5-10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
These cookies are my weakness!
Mine too, Shauna! 🙂
Everytime I make cookies they turn out two way; like a pancake with small fluff or a cake, about two inches tall and 3 inches width. I want to make these but I get jokes on my cookies everytime I try…what am I doing wrong?
If your cookies turn out flat it could be because the butter is too warm. If your cookie recipe calls for dough chilling, always make sure to follow that. I would also recommend checking your baking powder and baking soda to make sure they’re still fresh. Also, keep in mind that if you spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray that can cause cookies to spread. As far as cookies baking up too thick, that’s most likely because there’s too much flour in your cookies. I always recommend spooning your flour into the measuring cup and leveling it off with the back of a knife. If you scoop the flour from the container, you can end up with way too much flour and that will prevent cookies from spreading.
Can these be made with out oatmeal? They look delicious but my family doesn’t really like oatmeal very much.
I have a regular peanut butter cookie recipe here:https://www.livewellbakeoften.com/soft-peanut-butter-cookies/. You can add chocolate chips to it, I would use about 1 cup.
I’ve never bought sugar’d peanutbutter, only 100% nuts! I use it for cookies and have never added extra sugar to make up for the sugar-pb, (we don’t lIke things too sweet, even the kids,), but you say not for these. Anything we can use instead of extra sugar that will come from the sweet pb?
I’m not quite sure what you mean?
You can use unsweetend peanutbutter, just not natural peanutbutter. Natural peanutbutter has oil on top that you have to stir in before you can spread it on bread.
I made these yesterday, and they are almost all gone. They are SO GOOD! I used organic all-natural peanut butter, and had no issues (it was all I had, and at 9 months pregnant I wasn’t about to go out for one ingredient lol) They turned out perfect.
So glad to hear that the cookies turned out great for you, Michele!
The first time I baked these cookies my husband and I both loved them. The second time I added extra peanut butter and used chunky instead of creamy, I also added macadamia nuts. We think those small adjustments makes your recipe even more delicious. I just made the cookies again and I added nutella in place of some of the extra chunky peanut butter. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe, we love these cookies probably too much.
Made these with flax eggs and a little less sugar, and they are spectacular as always! Love these. A staple!
Do you know what the calorie count is per cookie ?? 🙂
Hi, Amy! I’m not sure about the nutritional information, but you can plug everything into an online calculator to get an estimate.
I’ve made quite a few of the cookies on your blog but I think this one is the absolute best!! My whole family LOVES them, and so fast & easy!!!
Thank you, Rachael! So happy to hear that!
Made these little gems tonight for dessert following a spaghetti and meatball dinner after our family get-together to bottle the maple syrup we make. My husband, my sons, their wives, and all of the grandchildren loved them! I whipped them up almost exactly as instructed, except I substituted the brown sugar for Swerve brown sugar replacement because I didn’t have any on hand, and I also used a no stir natural peanut butter. I was worried, but these cookies were spectacular! So soft and delicious! Thank you for a recipe I will make again and again and again!
Delicious!!
Dough was very dry as were the cookies. I kept reviewing the recipe but I didn’t do anything different that what it called for.
Sorry to hear that the cookies turned out dry for you, Toni. If you followed the recipe exactly (spooned and leveled your flour, used 1 stick of butter and one large egg, etc.), then I’m not sure what could have caused that to happen.
Best cookies ever,super delicious !!!!
These cookies are outstanding! Crunchy PB works great, and these are fast, easy to make. They have now replaced my favorite and “famous” chocolate chip recipe, where these have some nutrition instead of just flour, sugar butter and chocolate. My husband is a cookie eater / sweets with his coffee and this is now his go to- I snuck in the bit of nutrition and… they are filling so no need for a handful. I use crunchy, unsalted peanut butter only, also PB that has only Peanuts for the ingredients, no oil etc. No smooth PB in this home. Trader Joes’ has it in organic and regular, very affordable, easy to mix. I also add maple extract to almost everything I bake-just another layer of flavor everyone likes and doesn’t know what it is hiding in there subtly. #2- I add home Roasted Pecans – oh so good, slightly chopped and of course extra chocolate chips. Your recipe is perfect as it is, just added things we love. They freeze well too- I make a double batch and freeze. I’m going to make it with the gluten free flour next time- I’m sure it will be perfect too. Thank you for this recipe! Everyone – if you like choc chip cookies- try it.