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.
You said it, sister! I don’t often crave cookies, but when I do, I want them now! When I saw how quick and easy this recipe is, I had to try it… wow! It definitely did not disappoint! The dough almost didn’t make it through the oven (I’m a cookie dough fiend). But once it did… soft, decadent oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Ready to eat in less than 45 minutes. Delicious. Perfection. Also, thank you for mentioning that you cool yours on the pan because I don’t have a wire rack and was worried about that!
You said it, sister! I don’t often crave cookies, but when I do, I want them now! When I saw how quick and easy this recipe is, I had to try it… wow! It definitely did not disappoint! The dough almost didn’t make it through the oven (I’m a cookie dough fiend). But once it did… soft, decadent oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Ready to eat in less than 45 minutes. Delicious. Perfection. Also, thank you for mentioning that you cool yours on the pan because I don’t have a wire rack and was worried about that!
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad these were perfection for you! Also glad to hear you appreciate the little details like how I cool my cookies, I don’t bother with a rack ever!
I made the no chill no mixer oatmeal cookies,
They are great, used butterscotch chips in place of the chocolate chips. Nice texture and flavor, it’s a keeper.
I made the no chill no mixer oatmeal cookies,
They are great, used butterscotch chips in place of the chocolate chips. Nice texture and flavor, it’s a keeper.
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad this is a keeper for you!
This was so easy to make! I’ve never made oatmeal cookies before, but I happened to have all of the ingredients (except for raisins or chocolate chips) so I made some today! I added in a tablespoon of cinnamon and a shot of fireball whiskey. I had to hide them in my cupboard so I wouldn’t keep eating them!
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you loved the cookies!
In 10 years of blogging and 206,082 comments I have received (I just looked at that stat) you are the first person who’s ever commented about putting a shot of Fireball in any of my 3000+ recipes! Bravo for being the first!
I made them with quick oats & they turned out great! 40/45 of my assisted living residents said they were the best oatmeal cookies they’d ever had! (5 residents didn’t come down for dinner).
Glad these were an overwhelming hit with everyone that tried them!
I have probably been making these cookies for about a year now, with a couple of personal touches of my own, but thus recipe truly is quick easy and delicious :)
I am glad you love them and have been making them for a year now!
The cookies are so delicious any yummy. Thank you for this recipe!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed them!
Love these! I added a little bit of cinnamon and I made them vegan by using 1/4 cup banana for the egg and a 1:1 ratio of coconut oil to butter. Soooo good and I don’t usually go for vegan things. I just didn’t have any butter or eggs! Also, they taste great with or without chocolate chips. Thanks!
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad these turned out great for you with banana and coconut oil!
Awesome recipe for a guy without a mixer! Made this with my 6 year old daughter on Christmas Eve for Santa. Added some cinnamon and nutmeg for the heck of it. Thank you!
Glad that this was a great cookie to make with her for Santa :) So cute!
These cookies are amazing. I planned to just double the recipe for my father-in-law for Christmas and ended up making double batches of oatmeal raisin, oatmeal coconut and oatmeal chocolate chip. Super easy, great results. Thanks and merry Christmas!
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad you were able to do so many variations, too!
Used lentil flour instead and accidentally completely melted the butter in the microwave…#amateurbaker :) And they turned out great anyway! Spread a lot but not complaining since they still tasted awesome! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad they turned out delicious!
I did a search for easy oatmeal cookies because I felt like having some, and came across your recipe. They hit the spot. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad these hit the spot!
These cookies taste absolutely amazing and are so easy to make!!!!
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad your cookies taste amazing!
Hi! I’m not sure what went wrong but mine came out totally flat :( Like spread out all over the pan flat. Do you know what causes that?
Old baking soda, flour that isn’t high quality, not baking on a silpat, are the first things that come to mind. Check this post out for tips https://www.averiecooks.com/the-best-soft-and-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Is there anyway to make this without egg? Maybe with banana as a substitute?
I’ve only made it as written so can’t really say for sure.