Easy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Easy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe are perfectly soft and gooey in the center with crisp, chewy edges. A simple recipe that I love to bake and eat! It’s sure to become your favorite too.

I stopped by the grocery store this morning to grab a few things. I don’t even like going to the grocery store, but I end up going 3 or 4 times a week. I usually shop at a super center type store. It’s on my way home after dropping the boys off at school and if I need general merchandise I can get it all in one stop. When I walked in I was bombarded with Christmas displays. It hit me I haven’t gotten one present yet. I used to be finished in September. *sigh* It’s November and I haven’t even made a list!

Instead I’ve been making Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies! Good for you. Not so good for me.

Can you believe this year is almost over?

About  this Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe, peanut butter cookies was the first cookie I made. My parents weren’t chocolate lovers (crazy, right?!) so chocolate chip cookies weren’t an option. It’s all good though, I love the simplicity of peanut butter cookies. There are some peanut butter cookies recipes that have only four ingredients. These have more than that, but they’re still easy to make. Basically, dump it in a bowl and combine!

The addition of oatmeal gives these cookies a nice change from traditional peanut butter cookies. They’re rich and soft but the oatmeal lightens them so they’re not so heavy tasting.

If you eat just the inside of a peanut butter cup, that’s what these cookies taste like, especially the dough. So good!

When measuring flour you’ll want to first sift it, then use a scoop to fill your measuring cup. Lastly level the cup with the back of a knife or somthing flat. This measures flour more accurately than the scoop and sweep method.

When you weigh a cup of flour that’s been measured the ‘scoop and sweep’ method, it’ll weigh about 5 ounces. A standard cup should weigh 4.25 ounces.

You’ll get a much more accurate measurement using the method I used above. If you want to be dead-on correct you should weigh all ingredients instead of using the cups. If you’ve ever had a heavy, dry cake or cookies the culprit may lie in incorrectly measuring the flour.

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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

Prep Time

15 mins

Cook Time

9 mins

Total Time

24 mins

 

Servings: 24

Author: Paula Jones

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 and 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup quick cooking oats

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (175 degrees C)
2. In a bowl combine shortening, butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and peanut butter until smooth.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time.
4. Combine flour, soda and salt and stir into creamed mixture.
5. Mix in oats until just combined.
6. Refrigerate dough 15 minutes.
7. Using a quick-release scoop, drop onto an ungreased cookie sheet. I like to line mine with a silicone mat.
8. Bake 9 to 12 minutes or until just ligtly browned. Cook time wil vary depending on how big your cookies are. I used 2 tablespoons of dough and baked for 9 minutes because I before soft, chewy cookies. Bake longer if you like crisp cookies.
9. Cool on a wire rack.
10. Store in an airtight container up to 3 days.

Recipe Notes

Store cookie dough in fridge in an airtight container 12 hours or in freezer up to 4 weeks.©CallMePMc.com All images & content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to republish this recipe, please re-write the recipe in your own words, or link back to this post for the recipe.

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