Yummy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

LifeIsGood's Note:

A friend brought these to a picnic. After one taste of the warm-from-the-oven cookie, I knew I had to have the recipe. These are now the most requested cookie by my family. The recipe makes a HUGE batch of big cookies, but they do freeze very well. The 5 dozen amount is a guess, I've never counted! We love these and hope you will too!

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 30

Yield: 5.0 dozen, ...

• 2 cups butter (I use unsalted for baking)
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups brown sugar , packed
• 4 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 cups flour
• 5 cups oatmeal , divided
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 32 ounces chocolate chips (semi-sweet)
• 3 cups chopped nuts (I don't use) (optional)

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Cream together, using a stand mixer: butter, sugar and brown sugar.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla. Blend well.
4. Blend 2 1/2 cups of the oatmeal in a food processor or blender.
5. In a separate large bowl, mix together: flour, all of the oatmeal (2 1/2 cups processed and 2 1/2 cups whole), salt, baking powder and baking soda.
6. Add the dry mixture, on low - a bit at a time, to the wet ingredients and blend together until fully incorporated.
7. Add the chocolate chips and blend in on low. (Add nuts here, too, if you want.).
8. Scoop balls onto cookie sheets, spaced a few inches apart. I like to make them about 1 inch balls.
9. Bake for about 10 minutes, depending on your oven.
10. Get the gallon of milk ready!

Reviews

[SSX]

I'm sooo glad I didn't cut the recipe in half when I made these for Christmas! This is the best and only oatmeal cookie recipe I'll use from now on!!! The ground up oatmeal in this recipe gave the cookie a better texture and helped hold the cookie together vs any regular chocolate chip cookie or oatmeal cookie. These cookies don't spread much at all (which I like because they result in a nice thickness!) so you have to shape/flatten them into rounds before you bake them or else the balls you bake will have a rounded top (unless that's what you're going for). Once I mixed up the batter I divided it into quarters and made chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, chocolate butterscotch chip pecan oatmeal cookies, red and green M&M oatmeal cookies, and cranberry white chocolate walnut oatmeal cookies. Everyone loved these but especially the cranberry version. I love this recipe!

[Dreamer in Ontario]

The only thing I will do differently next time I make these is to cut the recipe in half. With 4 cups of sugar, 4 cups of flour and 5 cups of oatmeal it was almost more than my Kitchen Aid bowl could hold and I ended up with over 10 dozen scrumptious cookies. I didn't have quite enough butter so I used Crisco for 1/2 cup of the butter requirement. I was also short by 1/2 lb for the chocolate chips. I don't believe these changes had any negative effect on the final product. Thank you for this wonderful recipe. Made for Veggie Swap 38. An update on this review: I've now made a half recipe of this wonderful cookie substituting raisins for the chocolate chips as per DH's request and it's still a fantastic cookie. It's definitely staying in my favourites cookbook.

[Cookgirl]

Super yummy cookie and enjoyed by all! I used a 1 1/2" inch greased cookie scoop and although I reduced the yield significantly, ended up with twenty five cookies. Let the cookies rest a solid ten minutes before transferring them to a wire rack or else they will fall apart. Once cooled, they flatten more. The cookies were slightly flattened before baking, too as per the suggestion of another reviewer. A few butterscotch chips replaced the chocolate chips and I skipped the nuts because I didn't think the younger children would like them. Will make again soon replacing part of the chocolate chips with peanut butter chips. Thanks for posting. I really liked not only the taste but the texture was superb. Everyone was fooled when I informed them that the cookies were oatmeal *and* chocolate chip!