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These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies are soft yet chewy and packed full of peanut butter flavor!

Happy Friday!!  Since it’s Friday and, well, just because, I think we need a cookie recipe today, dontcha think?!  I definitely think so.

I kind of get stuck in my routine of making the same cookies over and over (Brown Butter Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies for LIFE!) but every once in awhile I need something different.  Maybe “need” is a bit dramatic but you know what I mean.  Need/want.  Same diff.

Anyways, if I’m going to cheat on my beloved chocolate chip cookies, it’s gonna be with peanut butter.  Duh.

These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies totally hit the spot!  I hate to say it, but I’m kind of particular with how I like my cookies.  When it comes to oatmeal cookies, I like a big chew factor.  I can’t waste my time with crunchy oatmeal cookies.  Nope.  I need them soft and chewy.

These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies are incredibly soft (even the next day!) and yet still chewy with all of the old fashioned oats.  On a scale of 1 to 10, these are pushing 11.  (p.s. as a health care professional I hate when patients rate their pain as 11/10 but as a professional cookie taster, I approve this rating).

The best thing about these peanut butter oatmeal cookies is just how simple they are.  No brown butter (although GAH I love brown butter so much), no artisan sea salt, and nothing that can’t be found in most people’s kitchen cabinets.  They’re basic and I just love that about them!

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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Yields ~24 cookies

20 minPrep Time

20 minTotal Time

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Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups old fashioned oats

Instructions

1. In a large bowl with electric mixer, beat together butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until creamy, about 2 minutes.
2. Add the peanut butter, eggs, and vanilla, beating until combined, about 2 more minutes.
3. Mix in flour, baking soda, salt, and oats, mixing until combined.
4. Cover the bowl and let it chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
6. Form into 2 tablespoon sized cookie dough balls.
7. Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes, until golden on outside and still soft on inside. Be careful not to overbake!
8. Let cool for 5 minutes on baking pan and then transfer to cooling rack to cool completely.
9. Enjoy!

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