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If there is one thing my mom can make, and make really good, it’s cookies. Today I have Mom’s Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies for you… They are the Best Oatmeal Chocolate Cookies Around!
She makes them one hundred times better than I could ever make them. I am positive it is because of the love she puts into every single individual cookie. Cheesy? Yes, but it is true. She takes the time to hand place the chocolate chips just to make sure every cookie has an acceptable amount. And while she can burn a loaf of bread like nothing, she never burns her cookies. Ok well, almost never. This is my mom we are talking about.
I am pretty sure that all six of my siblings would agree that mom is the very best cookie maker. And yeah, I am aware of the fact that a lot of kids probably feel this way about their moms. I get it, mom’s food just always tastes better.
BUT these cookies ARE better. I have never seen an oatmeal cookie recipe like it.
I actually was not planning on talking about these cookies today, but ever since this post I have had a ton of requests for the recipe. So when I when I woke up to a good foot and half of snow yesterday morning (no seriously that is no exaggeration and now it is over two feet with another foot expected!), I knew it was a cookie baking kind of day.
I mean, I even had these really crazy milkshakes all ready to go for today, but cookies just seemed like a better idea. For one, they are warm and that right there just sounds way better to me right now.
In full disclosure this is not really mom’s recipe. Her high school friend Lora gave her the recipe a long while back and she has been making them for us since she was nineteen. <– Yup, my mom was one of those teenage moms, but I am happy to say that my parents beat the statics and have been together since my mom was fifteen. That is so crazy.
Oh, and by the time my mom was twenty she had two kids, a husband and was still going to school full-time. Can not even imagine how she did it, but she did and she still managed to make a new batch of cookies every other day. And I do mean every other day. Chocolate freaks over here.
If you know my parents than you know they have a system when it comes to getting food on the table. Dad does dinner, mom does dessert. It worked for them and for us kids, thankfully (if mom had her way we would have been eating angel hair pasta with butter and salt every single night).
So that is how it worked, but ever since I started the blog there has been endless amounts of desserts around at pretty much all times. Oatmeal cookies have sadly become a thing of the past. This is the down fall of always having to try new desserts, you never get to make the ones you love twice.
Except for yesterday of course.
I gotta say, it felt good just to make an old and trusty recipe. One that I knew was going to turn out and not explode in my oven leaving me with a mess that I would probably have just left there and let burn away instead of actually cleaning the oven. Yeah, I do that all the time which is probably why all ovens hate me.
This is a recipe that never fails. Never, ever, ever fails. No matter where I am or at what elevation (trust me, elevation can be a pain in the butt) and no mater what oven I use, it always works. You can make them into cookie bars and even make them a tinsy bit healthier like I did here. Either way they will turn out delicious. The bars tend to be a little more crumbly than the cookies, but it does not matter. The texture is always spot on. Ok, well I mean, you shouldn’t over bake them. Under bake them? Sure, that is good (love an under baked cookie). But just do not over bake them. Any over baked cookie is not good and while I do think these are magic, they do not have super powers that can make an over baked cookie taste good.
That would pretty cool if they did though, right?
I know that it is Friday and baking may be the last thing on your mind. Trust me, I know the feeling and the couch is so calling my name, but these cookies need to be made today. Especially if it is cold and snowing like it is here. Every time I glance outside, the snow just gets higher and higher. All the more reason to stay inside and bake cookies if you ask me.
Plus, these are the most no-fuss, homemade, from scratch cookies you will ever encounter. Dump all the ingredients (minus the chocolate chips) into one bowl all at once. Beat them together and then stir in the chocolate chips. Use your hands to squeeze the dough into balls, bake and ten minutes later you will have the most amazing oatmeal chocolate chip cookies ever. No chilling, not weird ingredients and barely any time spent to make them.
Honestly, you could not pick a better thing to make today other than my Mom’s Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Ok, well you could make them for Super Bowl Sunday too. Or better yet just do both. Yes, do both!
The Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Around.
Servings: 27 OF THE BEST OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Calories Per Serving: 260 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup canola oil use a little more if dough seems is too dry
- 2 large eggs
- 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or chocolate chunks + more if desired
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a silpat or parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer add the oatmeal, flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, canola oil, eggs and vanilla, beat until the dough is moist and all the ingredients are combined. The dough will be crumbly. Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Using your hands clump together a tablespoon of dough. Use you hands to really squeeze the dough into a ball. If the mixture is not holding add 1 tablespoon more of oil. Place on prepared baking sheet. If your balls are a little crumbly do not worry, they will come together while baking. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake for 10 -12 minutes or until set and golden. These are best right out of the oven, so eat up!
Oh, and a lot of times I swap the chocolate chips for chocolate chunks… just because I can… and they rule.
This post was originally published on January 31, 2014
Thanks so much for sharing your mom’s treasured recipe with us! And yes, what you say is true: Moms food always tastes better—my mom isn’t much of a cookie baker (she leaves that department to me 😉 ) but she can make a pretty dang good loaf of homemade bread. Is it weird that I want these cookies right now even though it’s only 8:30 am??
Oh homemade bread!! Lucky! That is the best!
Thanks Sarah!
There is not a single thing in the world that compare to mom’s cookies!! Your mom’s look so outrageously delicious! Next time I go to chocolat chip cookieville, I’m taking your momma’s recipe with me!!
Yes, yes, yes! I do agree! 🙂
Thanks Julia!
Lovely cookies! Love that warm oozing chocolate!
Oozing chocolate it the best! 🙂
Thank you, Jenny! Have a great weekend!
There’s definitely nothing better than a tried and true recipe like Mom made – as I get older, I treasure my mom’s recipes all the more. These do look like the BEST oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
Oh I so agree!! My mom only has a few recipes, but they are all amazing!
Thanks Jeanette!
These cookies look perfect! That last shot with all the chocolate melting in the center is killing me.
Glad you like the oozy shots! I was of course second guessing them!
Love those pics with the melty, gooey chocolate. I’m on a massive oatmeal cookie kick at the moment and these sound like they’d totally hit the spot.
Thank you so much, Kathryn! I think I am always on an oatmeal cookie kick!
I love oatmeal raisin and my hubby is the chocolate guy. These look great!!!
Thanks Charlotte! I am not a raisin fan, but I love chocolate!
I love this post! And how sweet that your parents have been together since your mom was 15 🙂 Now I know what to bake this afternoon!
Thanks Danelle! Hope you love these!
I will be making these this weekend for sure! Glad you shared the recipe and I loved reading about your parents! Stay warm!
So happy you enjoyed this post! Thanks Kathy and I hope you love these!
I have my own amazing oatmeal raisin chocolate chip recipe but I really like the looks of your mom’s recipe! Thank you – can’t wait to try it out.
Thanks Meredith!
These cookies look huge and soft….and all the chocolate melting out is making my drool! Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are a classic and sometimes you just don’t mess with that. I love how you don’t clean your oven explosions. Me either. That’s what self cleaning ovens are for!
P.s although I wouldn’t eat it every night, angel hair pasta with butter and salt = SO GOOD
I have a self cleaning oven, but you cant use them up in the elevation I live it. It breaks ovens! UGH!!
Thanks Taylor!
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my favourite type of cookies ever. and these look better than any I’ve made before. Love how simple the ingredients are and the fact that they’re never-fail! Just look at those gooey chocolate chips. You’re killing me here!
Oatmeal cookies are y favorite too! Thanks so much, Nicky!
Oatmeal cookies are the best, especially the ones that came from mom a long time ago. I love the hunk of chocolate smack dab in the middle of the cookie.
That hunk of chocolate is the best! Thanks Norma!
These look so warm and comforting! My mom never made a homemade cookie and when I was little I didn’t know they existed. I thought cookies came from a grocery store in packages! Well, I make chocolate cookies for my kids a lot and want to try these. My favorite is oatmeal raisin, but these will satisfy all of us! Thanks for the great story about your mom making them. Lucky you! She sounds like a wonderful mother!!
Awe! Thank you, Nancy! I am happy you get to make cookies for your kids now! Hope you guys all love these!
Nothing beats a good old-fashioned oatmeal choc-chip cookie imo. Crunchy yet gooey.
Yours are awesome perfection Tieghan, and a big ‘Thank You’ to your mum for sharing her recipe (I know my mum would never reveal her baking secrets :/)
Thanks Mike!