These are the cookies that started it all. It wasn’t cupcakes that got me into baking or known for baking, it was these little cookies! Yes, that’s how incredible these cookies are!! Nearly everyday in high school I would wake up at 5:00 AM and start the KitchenAid creaming sugar and butter to make these. I would take them to school and before 2 period they would be gone. Everyone always told me I would own a bakery one day, and I never took them seriously. I thought I never wanted to do anything with baking for my “job.” Well… we know how that turned out 🙂 It’s a good thing I started baking!
These cookies were my first post on the blog nearly 4 years ago, but I was feeling sentimental and decided to do an updated post with better recipe formatting and more images. Enjoy a little blast from my past!
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Lizzy's Famous Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 C. unsalted butter
- 1 C. brown sugar not packed
- 1 C. sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. baking powder
- 2 ¼ C. flour
- 2 C. old fashioned oats
- 1 bag Guittard Milk Chocolate Chips
Instructions
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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cookies sheets with parchment paper.
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2. Cream butter and sugars together for about 5 minutes, it should turn a lighter color and appear "fluffy." Add vanilla and eggs.
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3. In a separate bowl sift salt, baking soda, baking powder, and flour together.
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4. Add dry ingredients slowly to wet while mixing. Do not over mix.
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5. Add oats. Add chocolate chips.
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6. Place dough balls that are about the size of a golf ball on cookie sheets, I always line mine with parchment paper. (To make my cookies thicker, I will scoop out dough balls onto a plate and then pop them in the freezer for 10 minutes, and then bake! This keeps them taller while they bake!)
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7. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Time will vary depending on ovens, but you want to take them out just before the tops start to golden. (They will look like they aren't done when you take them out, but they will keep cooking when they're out of the oven!)
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8. Let cool on a sheet a for 3 minutes. Once they set, taking about 15 minutes, they will be ready to eat.
Just like most cookies, they can be incredible or a disaster– It will totally depend on how long you bake them. If you’re nervous, just make one dough ball first to see if you need to bake them a little longer or for less time. I froze my dough balls for 10-15 minutes and then baked them for 9 minutes. But it always depends on your oven too!
These chocolate chips will change your life. They’re extra large and MILK CHOCOLATE. Oh my.
You can eat the dough plain too, I won’t judge.
Make cookies all the time? Get a food scoop! Seriously, it will be one of the best decisions of your life. It’s much less messy than the 2-spoon thing and your dough balls will all be the same size and perfectly round AND it’s faster. I like this food scoop from Amazon, size 30 is the one I use for cookies! I use Size 16 or 20 for cupcakes!
I’m gonna miss this little photo place, it’s been perfect for me over the last year and I shot my entire second cookbook from this little spot! Exciting news coming soon about a new studio….
Where can I buy those chocolate chips. Whole Foods?
I live in Oregon. I can find this brand at Winco or Safeway. It’s the only brand of chocolate chips I will buy. Also, use it to make my rocky road candy. Delish!
Dirose is right! Some Walmarts will even carry them! Just give stores a call instead of driving all over town 🙂
How many oz. are the chcolate chips if we don’t have any?
It’s just the normal amount as normal bags, so about 12 oz!
I LOVE Guittard chips. I used to be able to get them at World Market but I think Ghirardelli has taken over there. I recently found your blog. I think I found you on Instagram first. I have ordered your Make it with a Cake Mix book and can’t wait for it to arrive (hopefully by Friday). I am looking forward to looking at all of your previous posts on your blog. These cookies look delicious.
Oh good! Use Pillsbury mixes with the book! That’s the cake mix brand I always use 🙂 Let me know if you have any questions about it 🙂
Do you want the butter to be room temperature or softer before we mix it with the sugars? And I love your books, I already made quite a few cupcakes and everyone loves them! I live in Canada so I use Betty Crocker cake mixes and even though they aren’t the same ounces, they still come out perfect 🙂
Room temp is fine, I know that can differ depending on how warm/cool you keep your kitchen, but it just needs to be soft (not melted at all though).
I think I will go home and make these today. Oatmeal chocolate chip are my families favorite cookie. Thanks for posting again. I love all your recipies. I have both your cookbooks and use them both all the time. They are the best! Miss you by the way. Hope all is well with you.
I’m pretty sure these are going to make me famous too 🙂 I made them for my office & everyone loved them!
I made these and had them started before I realized I was out of all kinds of chocolate chips except for special darks. 🙁 I love dark chocolate and if it wasn’t for the family, I would have used those, but I subbed in plain M&Ms instead and they were delicious! I think next time I’ll add some nuts because I love nuts in my cookies. But these are really wonderful.
You can use whatever chocolate you want! I just prefer the milk chocolate chips for these 🙂
That is one of my favorite cookie combinations! They look perfect!
Just made these w half chocolate chips and half Reese’s… TDF… Yummy!!!!! The kiddo approves..
Oh! Sounds delicious!
These cookies look really good! Just one Q please- what would your opinion be if you used 2 cups of brown sugar, 2 and 1/4 cup oats and 2 cups of flour? Thank you Lizzy!
I really don’t change this recipe any more because it’s perfect. Too much brown sugar could cause them too spread out too much!
Is it okay to use semi-sweet chocolate chips here?
how many grams is one cup?
Yummmmm… I miss these cookies and come back to make these myself whenever I’m feeling nostalgic for high school days myself!
Your share is the great knowledge I have gathered, you are an important person I admire, thank you
So easy and so delicious. Loved that they weren’t thin and flat and they were perfectly chewy.
I attended high school with Liz and can attest- these cookies changed my life. To date, they are the only chocolate chip cookies my spouse will eat. Lizzy’s famous cookies or nothing at all!