Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

These cookies are new favorites of mine.

They actually combine elements from my favorite types of cookies:

Part Chocolate Chip Cookies: Check

Part Oatmeal Cookies: Check

Part Peanut Butter Cookies: Check

And the recipe is adapted from and very similar to the Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookie recipe

So really, if you like Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, or Oatmeal cookies, I’ve got you covered.

Really, if you like cookies at all, I’m sure you’ll like these.

Grab your one mixing bowl, and your one spoon, and these gems can be in your mouth within the next half hour.

Sound okay by you?

The flavor is pretty traditional in the sense of them being mostly a chocolate chip cookie.

But there is a touch of peanut butter flavor, but not too much.  You could enhance this by adding peanut butter chips in addition to or instead of the chocolate chips.  As it stands, the peanut butter flavor in these is very subtle and really the peanut butter simply helps to keep these cookies extra moist.

As was the case with the Peanut Butter Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies, you really can’t taste the oatmeal very much, either.  It’s more for texture, chewiness, and moisture rather than actual taste.  So even if you’re not an oatmeal cookie fan, that’s okay because these are much more chocolate chip cookie than oatmeal cookie.

They are very soft and very chewy which is a result of a higher ratio of brown to white sugar and also a higher ratio of egg yolk to egg white.  Yes, I like to geek out with food science.

I did not use the melted butter technique that I used here or here; instead I used softened, room temperature butter that I creamed with the sugars (by hand with a spoon).  It was Kerrygold butter,  and I have to say, this was some of the best raw cookie dough, ever.  Yes, I ate raw dough.

And yes, I’ve been in cookie-eating heaven.

One thing I used when making these cookies was my new $3.99 cookie scoop from Bed Bath & Beyond.

I love this thing!

I have had more expensive and fancy metal cookie scoops in the past but the dough always got caught in the “releasing” mechanism or would not release, making more of a mess and causing more trouble than benefit.   But this new scoop is changing all that because te plastic is very non-stick and you just push the big button to release the dough.

It helped me make the most uniform cookies I’ve ever been able to muster.  For some of you pros, you’ve had this nailed ages ago but I am a little late to the pretty cookie party.

But really, it doesn’t matter if they look pretty or not.

It’s how they taste.

The family approved.  We started out with three dozen and in 36 hours were down to less than a dozen.

3 people, 3 dozen cookies.  Hmmm, let’s do the math.  Ok let’s not.

Just chomp instead.

 Questions:

1. What’s your favorite kind of cookie? 

As I said, favorites of mine include chocolate chip, peanut butter, and oatmeal.

But really, I am not picky as long as it’s not dry or over-baked.  No baking rules violations, please.

2. Do you use a cookie scoop?

If you don’t, I cannot say enough good things about them.  I am a believer now.

And I also love my Silpat.  It’s been another huge help in baking.  Between my Silpat and my Flexipat and a cookie scoop, I feel like I have a new lease on cookie baking.

3. Do you have a favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies?

Everyone has their favorite.  And there a zillion favorite recipes out there.

Melted or creamed butter, the amount of flour, baking soda and baking powder; the sugar types and ratios, the eggs and ratios; so many things can vary.

Or adding peanut butter and oatmeal.  Or not.

I know some people like the Nestle Tollhouse recipe, other people swear by the Cooks Illustrated recipe, or the New York Times recipe.

Most people love their grandmother’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies and no matter how hard you try, you’re likely never going to be able to reproduce her results because that’s just one of life’s mysteries.  Grandmas make cookies better than anyone and you can never truly reproduce what they did.

If you have a recipe you love and want to share, I’m all ears.

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