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Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy and packed with flavor and chocolate chips! The only oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe you need.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time12 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 20
Calories: 166kcal
Author: Alison

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and line a baking tray with parchment paper. Set aside.
  • Add softened butter and light brown sugar to the bowl of your stand mixer. Cream them together until smooth.
  • Add the maple syrup, vanilla extract and milk and mix in.
  • Add rolled oats, dessicated coconut (finely shredded coconut), all purpose flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon and salt and mix in with a spoon (don't use your electric mixer for this part).
  • Add the chocolate chips and mix in.
  • Break off pieces of the cookie dough and roll into balls. Place them evenly onto the parchment lined baking tray. Aim to get 20 cookies from the batch.
  • Bake for 12 minutes until lightly browned on top. If they haven't spread enough when they come out of the oven then flatten them lightly with a fork while they are still hot from the oven.
  • Press a few more chocolate chips directly into the tops of the cookies while they are still warm.
  • Leave them on the tray to cool. They will firm up as they cool down.

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Notes

  1. Lightly salted butter or unsalted butter will both be fine to use in this recipe. Whatever you have on hand will be fine. It's ideal to let the butter soften before creaming it with the sugar. If you forget to do it though then there is an easy fix. Just cut the butter into cubes and beat it in your stand mixer for a couple of minutes to soften it before you add the sugar. 
  2. Maple Syrup. You can use real maple syrup in these cookies or you can use any maple flavored table syrup or really any syrup at all. Golden syrup is also delicious in these cookies if you're in the UK or somewhere else that Golden syrup is available.
  3. Rolled Oats. These are also known as old fashioned oats. These work wonderfully in these cookies to provide that wonderful chewy texture.
  4. Dessicated Coconut. This is also known as finely shredded coconut or finely shredded coconut flakes. It is very finely shredded, dried coconut.
  5. Chocolate Chips. You can use any chocolate chips or chocolate chunks that you like in these cookies. We used milk chocolate chips but semi sweet or dark chocolate chips also work great.
  6. Storing and Freezing. Keep your cookies stored in an airtight container at room temperature or in the fridge for up to a week. They also freeze well for up to 3 months.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 166kcal | Carbohydrates: 23g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 168mg | Potassium: 75mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 142IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 1mg