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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

February 15, 2019 by Taylor 8 Comments

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

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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.

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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).

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

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

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

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Comments

  1. Jessica says

    February 16, 2019 at 2:07 pm

    What kind of peanut butter are you using? Natural or the stuff with added sugars? Can’t wait to try these!

    Reply
    • Taylor says

      February 16, 2019 at 7:15 pm

      Hi Jessica,
      I have used both!
      Enjoy 🙂
      Taylor

      Reply
  2. Sharon Moulton says

    April 11, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    5 stars
    I used freshly ground, organic 100% peanuts. I also used whole wheat pastry flour. I stuck 2 very dark, fair trade chocolate discs con the middle of each cookie ball. I made them without the chocolate the first time but nothing is better that peanut butter and chocolate.

    Reply
    • Taylor says

      April 12, 2020 at 7:37 pm

      I love your addition of chocolate – you can’t go wrong with that!

      Reply
  3. Trish says

    October 28, 2020 at 11:56 am

    5 stars
    These are the beat cookies I have ever made! I added 1.5 cups chocolate chips and they were a huge hit.

    Reply
    • Taylor says

      October 28, 2020 at 7:56 pm

      thank you!! glad you loved them – and I love the addition of chocolate!

      Reply
  4. Pam says

    December 10, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    I mixed nestle quick mix into the batter. They taste like recees cups. Delicious

    Reply
    • Taylor says

      December 11, 2020 at 8:43 pm

      What a great idea!

      Reply

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