Five Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy and filled with five different kinds of baking chips! Milk chocolate, semisweet chocolate, peanut butter, vanilla and butterscotch chips make these oatmeal peanut butter cookies absolutely amazing!

What are Five Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal cookies?

These amazing cookies have 5 different kinds of baking chips in them! Milk chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, vanilla chips and butterscotch chips. It’s like chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies and several other kinds of cookies all put together into one absolutely incredible cookie!

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies with 5 types of baking chips

TIPS FOR MAKING THE BEST COOKIES

Three kitchen items really help you make the best cookies ever! I actually use these items in nearly every cookie recipe I make, as well as several other types of recipes, so they’re quite versatile.

First, I line my cookie sheets with a piece of parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. They’re sold in sizes that fit a 12×16 cookie sheet perfectly and enable to cookies to bake well without sticking- and no mess from spraying oil on the cookie sheets!

The second item is a KitchenAid mixer. I love mine! I have a Bosch as well but I find I use my KitchenAid for cookies. There is a cookie paddle that comes with every mixer that you attach to the top of the mixer. They’re easy to use and help you mix the ingredients uniformly. Add this to your wish list because it’s one of my all-time used small appliances ever!

The third item is a cookie scoop! Years and years ago I used to use 2 spoons to measure and scrape cookie dough onto the pans. It wasn’t a perfect process and I often ended up with oblong cookies in various sizes. A friend of mine brought cookies to a party and I noticed each and every one of her cookies looked PERFECT. Her secret? A cookie scoop! They come in three sizes- 1/2 tablespoon, 1.5 tablespoon and 3 tablespoon scoops. I use the medium sized scoop for most cookies.

Ingredients in Five Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Butter – You will need 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter. Make sure the butter is softened to room temperature before adding to the recipe.

Peanut butter – You can use creamy or crunchy peanut butter, but note that if you use a more natural peanut butter, the cookies won’t quite turn out the same. Traditional peanut butters (Jif, Skippy, etc) tend to work much better for baking.

Sugars – You’ll need 1 cup of granulated sugar and 2/3 cup of brown sugar. Make sure the brown sugar is fresh and soft.

Eggs – The recipe calls for 2 large eggs to bind everything together.

Vanilla extract – The higher the quality of the vanilla, the better!

Flour – All purpose flour works best in these cookies. Cake flour also works well.

Oats – Old-fashioned oats are definitely my preference in these cookies, but you can use quick oats if you’d like. I think the best oatmeal cookie consistency comes from using a 50/50 mix of the two!

Baking soda – This is the leavening agent in the cookies so make sure your baking soda isn’t old or expired.

Salt – Just a half teaspoon of salt helps to bring out the other flavors in the cookies.

Baking chips – You will need about 2/3 cup of each type of baking chip (milk chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, vanilla chips and butterscotch chips). Feel free to add more of your favorite or leave one of the kinds out if you’d like.

Step by step instructions on how to make 5 Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

How to make Five Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Preheat oven to 350°.

In a large bowl, cream the butter, peanut butter and sugars for 2-3 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and beat for 2-3 minutes.

In a separate bowl, combine the flour, oats, baking soda and salt. Add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in all of the chips.

Use a cookie scoop to drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets (parchment paper or silicone baking mats). Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges begin to barely brown. Cool for about 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks.

HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OATMEAL COOKIES:

After trying out multiple oatmeal cookie recipes over many years, I have picked up several important tips for making the absolute BEST Oatmeal Cookies!

Make sure that you have enough flour in the dough. If the dough is too sticky, you may need to add a little bit of flour. Keep in mind though that oatmeal cookie dough is a bit stickier than other cookie dough and that’s ok!
Use a combination of oats. The recipe calls for old-fashioned oats, but quick oats work just fine too. But I really love to use half and half if I have them both on hand.
Spend a little extra time when you mix the butter and sugars. Creaming them together for 2-3 minutes will improve the consistency of your cookies.
Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!

HOW DO YOU SOFTEN BUTTER?

I like to soften butter by using the defrost function on my microwave. If you need the full 1/2 cup cube of butter, you can leave it in the paper wrapper, otherwise, place the amount of butter you need in a glass or porcelain bowl. I use the lowest defrost setting on my microwave and just let it run for 20 seconds. Check the butter and see how soft it is by pressing it with a rubber scraper. If it is still not soft to the touch, meaning it doesn’t indent when you press into it, let it warm for another 5-10 seconds. Watch it closely! Butter softens very quickly.

WHY DO MY OATMEAL COOKIES BURN ON THE BOTTOM BUT AREN’T DONE IN THE MIDDLE?

If your cookies are always burning on the bottom, it is probably a cookie sheet issue! If you are using really dark cookie sheets, the bottoms of your baked goods will tend to burn before they are actually cooked all the way through. If you use a lot of cooking spray, the same result can happen. I prefer to use lighter colored non-stick pans so that I don’t have to use cooking spray at all. As mentioned above, I have been converted to silicone baking mats over the last couple of years and I love how easy it is for cookies to come off the tray – no sticking ever!

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies with 5 different kinds of chips

HERE ARE A FEW MORE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPES YOU’LL ENJOY:

AND HERE ARE SOME MORE OATMEAL COOKIE RECIPES TOO!

This little one really loves Sno-Cones. Especially the ones from Bahama Bucks. Have you ever been to Bahama Bucks? I didn’t think I liked sno-cones until I had one from there. (Well, except for the shaved ice in Hawaii. Nothing beats that.) The ice is so finely shaved and the best part of the whole thing is that they put ice cream at the bottom of the shaved ice and then they put cream on top too! And the flavors are amazing. They don’t taste fake at all – they actually taste like real fruit.

This little girl doesn’t go by flavors, she goes by colors and she most often picks blue because she just loves having a blue tongue. Gotta love 3 year olds!

Comments

Dana says

February 7, 2023 at 10:07 pm

These cookies were such a hit! They are packed with flavor in every bite. It was hard to just have one!

Liz says

February 8, 2023 at 2:45 pm

These cookies have ALL my favorite things!!! They were so good! Love the peanut butter flavor.

Justine says

February 8, 2023 at 6:53 pm

These were AMAZING! So soft and chewy….probably my new favorite cookie.

Gina says

February 9, 2023 at 1:45 pm

These cookies did not last long in my house! We seriously could not get enough of them!

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