Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe from The Food Charlatan. (2024)

These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies will blow your mind! Tons of peanut butter flavor (actual peanuts optional) paired with some chewy oats for an amazing texture. They are so tender and totally melt in your mouth!Originally published June 1, 2017.

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Table of Contents
  1. You will love these Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
  2. Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients
  3. Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Substitutions and Options
  4. How to make this Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
  5. How to serve Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
  6. How to store Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies
  7. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe FAQs
  8. More peanut butter oatmeal goodness!
  9. Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

What could be better than riding a dirtysubway through San Francisco at midnight? Well I can think of about 500 things, the first one being a nice soft bed.

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But THIS subwayhad awesome people on it (and hardly any crazy/scary/drunk people!). We were on our way back from seeing Hamilton (which was AMAZING of course) and started playing Heads Up on our phone. That’s where you hold the phone on your forehead so you can’t see it, it displays a word , and everyone else has to help you guess what it is.

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My favorites were the songs. It would display a song title and everyone else has to hum the tune until the person figures it out. SO HARD!!! But extremely entertaining when everyone else on your train starts humming at you frantically.

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It’s also great having a younger crowd help you out with all the Ke$ha songs that you’ve never heard of. Because who the heck is that.Also,look at how good they are at selfie-ing! So natural! It’s a skill guys. I’m all like, “hang on lemme bust out thedouble chin” and they’re like, I’m cool. Hang ten. I take selfies with strangers on the train all day long.

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You will love these Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Coooookies. I’ve been obsessed with them lately. These Peanut Butter Oatmeal cookies were my latest craving. This recipe is spot on: A big, soft, extremely chewy cookie with just the right amount of oats. I used both quick and old fashioned oats in the dough to give it great texture. The peanut butter COMES THROUGH guys. You know how sometimes peanut butter cookies aren’t peanut buttery enough? Never fear! And because they have oats in them…so they’re basically healthy. Right??

Ever bitten into a peanut butter cookie, only to have it crumble into dust? Such a disappointing experience. If a peanut butter cookie is going in my mouth, it better follow the rules. And those rules are: tons of peanut butter flavor. Super moist and tender. NO CRUMBLING.

These peanut butter oatmeal cookies are IT, guys. The oatmeal keeps them so soft and there’s a LOT of peanut butter (some would say too much, they are wrong).

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Ingredients

Here’s a quick shopping list to help you gather your ingredients. See the recipe card below for the full ingredients and instructions!

  • Butter
  • Butter flavor Crisco
  • Brown sugar (light or dark)
  • White sugar
  • Peanut butter (creamy or crunchy)
  • Eggs
  • Vanilla
  • Flour
  • Baking soda
  • Quick oats
  • Old fashioned oats

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies Substitutions and Options

There are so many ways to enjoy these peanut butter oatmeal cookies. You can really make them your own! Here are a few suggestions.

  • Love peanuts? Use crunchy peanut butter instead of creamy.
  • Only have quick oats on hand? That’s ok, you can use ALL quick oats. The reverse is also true: if you only have old-fashioned oats, just use them. Play around with the ratios and see what creates your favorite texture.
  • Not enough peanut butter for you? Make these into Peanut Butter Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies and up the ante with a generous amount of rich peanut butter frosting.
  • Never enough chocolate? You can add a cup of chocolate chips, chunks, or mini chips, or get extra fancy and add Reese’s Pieces or Peanut Butter M&Ms (or any combination of the above).
  • Cookies too big? No worries, you can make them any size you like (including actual Do-si-do size). Just watch the time to make sure they don’t over bake.

How to make this Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Here’s a quick overview of how to make this recipe. Full instructions can be found in the recipe card below!

  1. Beat butter and Crisco, then beat in brown sugar, white sugar, and peanut butter.
  2. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  3. Add flour but don’t mix yet; stir baking soda and salt into flour, then beat in flour mixture gently.
  4. Stir in quick oats and old fashioned oats.
  5. Chill dough for 1-3 hours or overnight.
  6. Preheat the oven, line baking sheets, and measure the dough into cookies.
  7. Bake, then let cool on the baking sheet before removing to a cooling rack.
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This dough is insanely good.

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How to serve Chewy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

All I need with these babies is a tall glass of cold milk. That’s it.

That being said, I’m also pretty obsessed with making them into these Peanut Butter Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies. You take two of them and put peanut butter frosting in between. They’re like a super upgraded version of the Girl Scout Do-si-dos.

How to store Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

Oatmeal peanut butter cookies can be stored on the counter for 3-4 days frozen for 3-4 months. They’re almost too easy to pull out whenever a cookie craving strikes. I have been known to eat them straight out of the freezer…just sayin’, don’t go thinking freezing them means you’re safe from their peanut-y charms!

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Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie Recipe FAQs

How do you keep peanut butter cookies from falling apart?

A lot of peanut butter cookies have too much flour and not enough fat. That’s why they turn into a crumbly pile of dust when you try to eat them. This recipe calls for plenty of fat: it’s in the butter, shortening, peanut butter, and eggs. That will require the dough to be chilled so that the fat doesn’t immediately melt when the unbaked cookies go into the oven. I promise you, the chilling time is totally worth it to achieve soft, tender cookies that won’t fall apart.

What is the secret to soft chewy cookies?

Soft, chewy cookies. They’re the stuff of dreams. Here are a few tips that will make your peanut butter oatmeal cookies the perfect combination of chewy and soft!
Use butter AND shortening. The butter is for flavor, the shortening is for soft, puffy tenderness. Also, we’re using butter-flavor shortening, so we’re maximizing the butter flavor as much as possible.
Use brown sugar. Brown sugar lends a lot more moistness to a cookie than white sugar alone.
Don’t over bake them. When you pull these out of the oven, the edges should be firm, but the centers should still be just a little bit shiny.

Is it better to chill oatmeal cookie dough before baking?

Yes! Definitely. This peanut butter oatmeal cookie dough is super soft. That’s amazing for our finished cookies (softness is our goal) but we don’t want them to spread out into flat, burned pancakes. It’s always a struggle to wait for the dough to chill but the result is worth it.

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Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies

4.69 from 32 votes

Prep: 10 minutes mins

Cook: 10 minutes mins

Total: 20 minutes mins

Servings: 18 cookies

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These cookies will blow your mind! Tons of peanut butter flavor (actual peanuts optional) paired with some chewy oats for an amazing texture. They are so tender and totally melt in your mouth!

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter, softened (1 stick)
  • 1/2 cup butter-flavored Crisco
  • 1 cup dark or light brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup peanut butter, creamy or chunky
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 & 1/2 cups flour, spooned and leveled
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup quick oats
  • 1/2 cup old fashioned oats

Instructions

  • In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat the butter and crisco for 2 minutes, scraping the sides and bottom.

  • Add the brown sugar, white sugar, and peanut butter. Beat until incorporated.

  • Add 2 eggs and vanilla. Beat well, scraping sides and bottom.

  • Add flour but don’t mix it in. Use a small spoon to stir the baking soda and salt into the flour, then beat in gently. There should still be flour streaks.

  • Add the quick oats and old fashioned oats. Stir until incorporated but do not over mix.

  • Cover the bowl and chill the dough in the fridge for 1-3 hours (or overnight).

  • When the dough is chilled, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper.

  • Use a 1/4 cup to measure out the dough. I only placed 6 cookies on each cookie sheet because they are so big. At least 2 inches.

  • Bake the cookies at 350 for 9-10 minutes until the centers are alllmost done being shiny. The edges should be firm. Do not over bake.

  • Let cool on the sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack. You should definitely eat at least one of these warm. Or maybe 2 or 3.

Notes

You can of course make smaller cookies if you want! Just shape them whatever size you like (make sure they’re all the same) and decrease the bake time.

You can use any combination of old fashioned oats and quick oats that you like. All old fashioned, all quick, or a combo. It’s really just personal preference!

Source: adapted from Allrecipes.com.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 329kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 32mg | Sodium: 373mg | Potassium: 153mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 184IU | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Calories: 329

Keyword: chewy, Cookies, Oatmeal, Peanut butter

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FAQs

What are the ingredients for peanut butter cookies? ›

Why do you smash peanut butter cookies? ›

Basic reason..the dough is more dense than most cookie doughs, and the pressing with the fork tines helps the dough bake evenly. Secondarily, its pattern makes it easier to tell them apart from other cookies with similar appearance.

What is the best peanut butter for baking cookies? ›

Peanut butter: Creamy peanut butter is ideal for this recipe because crunchy peanut butter creates an overly crumbly cookie. You can use processed peanut butter such as Jif or Skippy, or natural-style peanut butter.

Why do my peanut butter cookies fall apart? ›

Why are my peanut butter cookies so crumbly? Peanut butter cookies are naturally delicate because peanut butter has so much fat in it. All the extra fat makes it a little harder for the binding ingredients (egg, butter) to hold it together.

What are the ingredients in three ingredient peanut butter cookies? ›

Made with just peanut butter, sugar, and an egg, these cookies are a breeze to whip up, requiring minimal effort and time (under 30 minutes!). Plus, with such basic pantry staples, there's a good chance you have everything you need in your kitchen to make them right now!

How to make peanut butter cookie mix taste better? ›

Peanut Butter Cookie Mix Hacks

Flavor Twist: After creating the dough according to the peanut butter cookie mix instructions, portion the dough into balls then roll in a tasty topping like poppy seeds, sesame seeds or sprinkles, or go for a 4:1 ratio of sugar and dry spice, like ground cinnamon or nutmeg.

What happens if you don't criss cross peanut butter cookies? ›

The fork marks also encourage the cookies to bake more evenly and brown evenly. If we skipped that step, these cookies would be so thick that they'd barely spread, and they may not bake all the way through.

Why do you put a criss-cross on peanut butter cookies? ›

So it looks like that there are utilitarian reasons for the cross-hatching—to allow for even cooking—but it might have been passed along for nearly a hundred years for primarily aesthetic reasons, where the cross-hatching is more to identify the cookies as peanut butter ones, rather than to cook them well.

Why do my peanut butter cookies taste weird? ›

Your other source of fat should be butter, not shortening. Butter will make your cookies taste buttery; shortening will make them taste suspiciously vacant, like Katy Perry's voice post-autotune. Yes, shortening yields chewier cookies than butter does, because butter contains water and shortening doesn't.

Can you bake peanut butter cookies without parchment paper? ›

If you don't have any parchment in the house and really don't feel like going out to buy any, remember that many of today's baking sheets already have a non-stick surface, and the fat content of most cookies make many recipes unlikely to stick anyway. Silicone mats are a great reusable alternative, as well!

Why are my peanut butter cookies so oily? ›

You baked your cookies and they came out an oily greasy mess. Urgh, what an awful feeling! If you've had this happen to you, odds are you made one of two mistakes: either you didn't allow the ingredients to thoroughly mix during the creaming process or you didn't allow the dough to rest enough before baking.

Should you refrigerate peanut butter cookie dough before baking? ›

Chill your cookie dough! The dough is extremely soft due to the creamy peanut butter, eggs, and butter and if it's not cold going into the oven, the cookies will spread all over your baking sheet. I chilled this cookie dough for 24 hours and my cookies were soft, thick perfection.

What if my peanut butter cookie dough is too dry? ›

Dry – “Dry” or “Crumbly” dough is a product of over-mixing or using too much of any ingredient during the mixing process. This can be reversed by adding one to two tablespoons of liquid (water, milk or softened butter) to your mix.

How do you know when peanut butter cookies are done? ›

Unlike many other cookies, peanut butter biscuits only fully harden once they've been removed from the oven. Here's how to tell when peanut butter cookies are done: The tops of the cookies are a uniform light brown. They're soft to the touch but not moist or mushy.

What ingredients should be in peanut butter? ›

Roasted Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Salt.

What are the ingredients in great value peanut butter cookies? ›

ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDISCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRAIL, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, FULLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OIL [RAPESEED, COTTONSEED AND SOYBEAN OILS]), CANOLA AND/OR SOYBEAN AND/OR PALM OIL WITH TBHQ ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, GRAHAM FLOUR ...

What is the key ingredient in cookies? ›

Flour is the main ingredient that provides structure in a cookie – without it, there would be no cookie! The gluten in flour forms a web of sorts – the framework that catches the air bubbles/gasses given off during rising. This helps provide the structure.

What are the ingredients in Girl Scout peanut butter cookies? ›

INGREDIENTS: PEANUT BUTTER (PEANUTS, SUGAR, HYDROGENATED PALM OIL, SALT), SUGAR, ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, VITAMIN B1 [THIAMIN MONONITRATE], VITAMIN B2 [RIBOFLAVIN], FOLIC ACID), VEGETABLE OIL (PALM KERNEL, PALM AND SOYBEAN OIL), COCOA, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF INVERT SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, SALT, ...

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