Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with chocolate! Chocolate cookie recipe packed with oats and chocolate chips.

We love oatmeal cookies and we love chocolate cookies. Combine the two? Absolutely amazing. Why have I never tried this before?!?

WHAT ARE DOUBLE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES?

These cookies are ones you can easily make at home! Using staple kitchen ingredients like sugar, brown sugar, eggs, cocoa, and flour, with the addition of oats and chocolate chips, these cookies are one of a kind! This unique cookie recipe is a combination of flavors and textures that complement each other so well. Once you try oatmeal cookies with chocolate in them, you’ll never eat regular oatmeal cookies again. Add some chocolate chips in for extra chocolate and you won’t be able to eat just one!

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 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 DOUBLE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES

Butter – The recipe calls for 1 cup of butter, which is equal to 2 full sticks. Make sure that the butter is softened to room temperature before mixing with the other ingredients. And for best results, use real butter.

Sugars – You will need brown sugar and granulated sugar. For best results, make sure your brown sugar is fresh.

Eggs – Add 2 large eggs to the dough to help bind everything together.

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

Flour – All-purpose flour works best in the recipe, but you can use a gluten-free substitute if needed.

Cocoa powder – Unsweetened cocoa powder gives these cookies a rich chocolatey flavor.

Baking soda and baking powder – Baking soda and baking powder act as the leavening agents in the cookies, so make sure they aren’t expired.

Salt – Just a little bit of salt helps all of the other flavors to pop.

Oats – The recipe calls for rolled oats and quick oats. You can use one or the other if you’d like, but a combination of the two makes these cookies absolutely perfect.

Chocolate chips – Two cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips add even more chocolate to these amazing cookies.

HOW TO MAKE DOUBLE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES

Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and sugars together for 2-3 minutes. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat for another 2-3 minutes. 

In a separate bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Add the oats and stir just until combined. 

Use a tablespoon-sized cookie scoop to drop the cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets (about 2 inches apart). Bake for 10-11 minutes. Let the cookies cool for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. 

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DOUBLE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES

Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with chocolate! Chocolate cookie recipe packed with oats and chocolate chips.

Course Cookies

Cuisine American

Keyword Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 36 cookies

Calories 176kcal

Author Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter softened to room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1 ¼ cups flour
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup quick oats
• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
• In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the butter and sugars together for 2-3 minutes. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat for another 2-3 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Add the oats and stir just until combined.
• Use a tablespoon-sized cookie scoop to drop the cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets (about 2 inches apart). Bake for 10-11 minutes. Let the cookies cool for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

Nutrition

Calories: 176kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 110mg | Potassium: 120mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 176IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg

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 and quick oats which makes for the best oatmeal cookies. If you only have one kind or the other, it will still work, but the cookies will have a slightly different consistency.
• 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 overbake 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?

It is probably a cookie sheet issue if your cookies are always burning on the bottom! If you are using dark cookie sheets, the bottoms of your baked goods will tend to burn before they are 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!

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Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with chocolate! Chocolate cookie recipe packed with oats and chocolate chips.

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