The BEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

The BEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Looking for a quick and easy way to make delicious oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with ingredients you probably already have? Look no further than this recipe! With just 5 minutes of prep time, you can have a batch ready to go in no time. And once your family tastes these mouth-watering cookies, they’ll be asking for more!

The best part of this recipe is you can make any variation of these cookies that you want. You can leave out the chocolate chips and make them oatmeal raisin cookies instead. You can add coconut, nuts, cranberries, dark and white chocolate or any combination of these that you like.  This is a great basic recipe to mix up and then include any add ins that you want!

People always ask if they can use butter instead of shortening. You can but make sure you know the difference in how each cooks and how it will affect your cookies before changing it.

• Butter makes the cookies very tasty, but they are flat and crisp.
• Shortening makes fluffy cookies but it doesn’t give them as much flavor.

The BEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

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• Author: Tawra Kellam
• Yield: 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients

3/4 cup shortening or 1/4 cup butter and 1/2 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup water
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3 cups quick cooking oatmeal
1 cup chocolate chips or raisins or nuts or any combination

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Beat the shortening, sugars, egg, water and vanilla together until creamy.
3. Mix the flour, salt and baking soda together in a separate bowl.
4. Add to the creamed mixture.
5. Blend Well.
6. Stir in oatmeal.
7. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes.

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