Quick & Easy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies — An incredibly FAST and EASY recipe that produces perfectly thick chocolate chip oatmeal cookies with chewy edges and soft centers!! One bowl to wash, no mixer to drag out, and no waiting around!!
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Super Simple Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
When most people have a craving for cookies, they want them within the hour. Not hours or even days later. And they don’t want to dirty a million dishes or drag out a (stand) mixer in pursuit of their cookie goal.
Enter: this incredibly fast and easy oatmeal cookie recipe with few ingredients that produces cookies that turn out perfectly thick with soft centers and chewy edges.
Just add everything to one bowl, stir by hand with one spoon, and you’re ready to bake.
While I’m normally a huge advocate of chilling cookie dough to avoid cookies that spread or are thin, you don’t have to with these simple oatmeal cookies. Not having to chill the dough makes these 20-minute oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. From the time you’re struck with a cookie craving until the time you’re eating said cookies, it’s 20 minutes.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients
For this simple oatmeal cookie recipe, you’ll need the following:
- Egg
- Unsalted butter
- Light brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Old-fashioned oats
- All-purpose flour
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I say easy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I mean EASY! Follow these basic recipe steps:
- Add the egg, butter, sugars, and vanilla to a large bowl and stir vigorously to combine (your bicep should be burning).
- Mix in the dry ingredients, then gently fold in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop the cookie dough onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet (a Silpat works, too!) and bake until done.
- Let your cookies cool for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack. They need a little time to cool and set up before you can dunk them into milk!
Recipe Tips
Since you’re beating the dough together with elbow grease, I highly recommend having the butter and egg at room temperature. The softer the butter is, the easier your job will be. Of course you can use an electric mixer, but that defeats the purpose of as few dishes and as easy as possible.
Didn’t plan ahead for room temp ingredients? No problem. Pop your butter in the microwave for 10 seconds or until it’s just barely showing signs of melting. Add the egg to a bowl of very hot water for a couple minutes. A warm egg emulsifies easier than a cold one.
I highly recommend using a cookie scoop as well. The dough is soft, warm, and the domed shape a scoop produces is essential to preventing excess spreading. Same goes for a Silpat, use one.
Recipe FAQs
I scooped the cookie dough into 2-tablespoon sized balls and bake them at 350ºF for 10 to 13 minutes depending on how done I want them. If you prefer softer cookies, bake for 10 minutes, and if you prefer more well-done cookies, bake for a little more time.
Use rolled (old-fashioned) oats whenever you make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Rolled oats are sturdier and chewier in texture and make for a better cookie.
No, quick oats have a much different texture than rolled oats and would act more like a flour in these cookies. Your homemade oatmeal cookies would wind up being too dry.
Of course! I added chocolate chips to keep these super simple oatmeal cookies, but you can add raisins, walnuts, chocolate chunks, or whatever you love in oatmeal cookies.
Yes, you can freeze both the cookie dough balls or the baked oat cookies. Frozen cookie dough doesn’t need to be thawed before being baked, but it’ll need an extra minute or two in the oven to cook through. And if you freeze the baked cookies, you can reheat them in the oven or the microwave when you’re ready to enjoy them.
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No-Chill Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup unsalted butter, 1 stick, very soft
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups old-fashioned whole rolled oats, not instant or quick cook
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus more for after baking (or substitute with raisins, walnuts, etc.)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- To a large bowl, add the egg, butter, sugars, vanilla, and mix with a spoon aggressively for about 90 seconds, or until smooth and slightly fluffed, i.e. your bicep and shoulder should be burning if you’ve mixed well enough.
- Add the oats, flour, baking soda, salt, and stir to combine.
- Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
- Using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop, form mounds and place on prepared baking sheet spaced about 2 inches apart (I baked 12 cookies on the first sheet)
- Bake for about 10 to 13 minutes (short for super soft cookies, longer for more well-done cookies), or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don’t overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
- Immediately upon taking the baking sheet out of the oven, add about 5 additional chocolate chips per cookie. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Originally posted September 1, 2017 and reposted on April 16, 2021 with updated text.
Made these this afternoon and they were delicious! I received thumbs up from my boys! Thanks for posting an easy, delicious recipe. I make quite a few of your recipes but never take the time to post. You have a great blog that I enjoy following.
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you have been enjoying many of my recipes and thanks for taking the time to comment on this one!
I make these cookies at least once a month. I just add a little sea salt on top before baking. They’re the bomb!!
I am glad to hear they are a frequent hit and thanks for the 5 star review!
Wonderful! Love them they are my fafavorite oatmeal cookies! I’m all about quick and easy .
Glad you love these and I am all about quick and easy as well!
I am totally ready to make these this minute!! Those pics make me want to take the cookie right off the screen. I just realized that I only have quick oats…is there any way to make this recipe with quick oats so that it’ll come out right?
Probably use slightly less since they are denser and more flour-like and if you add the full amount the cookies will be very dry and the dough won’t come together. And/or scale back the flour a bit. Play it by ear until you get a nice dough consistency.
A delicious recipe, as always from Averie! I pressed half the batch into little cast iron skillets for a cookie skillet … topped them right out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Amazing!
Thanks for trying the recipe and what a cute idea to do mini cast iron skillets! Love that! Can’t beat a warm skillet cookie with ice cream!
OMG!!! These were exactly what I was looking for!! Chewy deliciousness. I added a couple of good sprinklings of cayenne pepper which hubby loved. Probably had more than one cup of chocolate chips as well but it was delicious. These are on my favorite list and rotation!!
Thanks for trying the recipe so soon after I posted it and I’m glad you loved it! Cayenne pepper sounds like a fun twist – or sea salt for me! More than 1 cup of chips sounds great :)
Please clarify how many cookies batch will yield?
About 16 cookies
We just made them and they’re fantastic! We made one substitution – we saw Ghiradelli makes caramel chips, so, thinking about Oatmeal Scotchies from days gone by, we decided to try them. They were very good that way too.
Those Ghiradelli chips sound delish and I’m sure your cookies were amazing with them!
The nutrition info is missing how many cookies this yields. It says there are 12 servings but I wanted to know about how many cookies that makes for the whole batch as well as per serving
It makes 12 cookies. Yield = make.
The nutrition info is there.
Enjoy!
You are right when you say that this is an incredibly fast and easy recipe. Mix all the ingredients in one bowl and bake. It cant get any easier than that. Thanks for sharing!
i LOVE oatmeal cookies! especially loaded with chocolate chips! (not a raisin fan) – and not having to wait for them to chill? i’m sold!
Glad these sold you!
Hello I enjoyed the recipe. When looking at the nutrition label 24 G of fiber. Are you sure? In a full serving of oatmeal there’s only four grams of fiber how could this be
Glad you enjoyed this and thanks for the 5 star review!
The nutrition stats are a computer generated courtesy estimate. Many online tools can often have a wide variety of results. I am not a dietician so all info is provided as a courtesy estimate.
Oatmeal cookies that are loaded with chocolate chips are a big hit in our family. Best yet, if we can whip up the dough and bake right away. These look fabulous!
The right away part is always nice, right!
These cookies look great, and I really appreciate that you made an eat-it-now recipe. Don’t get me wrong, my fav chocolate chip cookie recipe requires overnight chilling, but this cookie looks like a nice alternative to have at hand :)
It’s a great alternative when you just.can’t.wait.
Why can’t quick oats be used? Does something happen to the cookies? I’ve used quick oats in previous oatmeal cookies without a problem. TIA
Rhonda
Because it will behave more like flour and the cookies will come out too dry.
Oatmeal cookies are my husband’s fave. And yes …. we like our cookies NOW, not waiting hours for them. I made your snickerdoodles yesterday and I popped them in the freezer for 20 minutes, which seemed to have the same effect as 2 hours in the fridge … I had my daughter and her friend to feed and we didn’t want to wait. :)
Lol that’s how it is when you want cookies; it’s a NOW thing. Glad that the freezer trick has been working and this version needs no tricks whatsoever!
I think a couple of these would be delightful with my morning coffee right now. No shame in wanting cookies for breakfast right? They are oatmeal after all!
Oats, healthy, sounds like breakfast food to me :)