Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies – You have to love this chocolate lovers’ spin on the old-time favorite oatmeal cookie. The addition of cocoa to the batter and dark chocolate chips make this an irresistibly chocolatey cookie.
Today’s oatmeal cookie recipe comes with a little bit of embarrassment. Not embarrassment about the recipe–I’m pretty proud of this one, if I do say so myself.
No, I’m embarrassed because it’s taken me a whole lifetime to make a chocolate oatmeal cookie! WHY did I never think of adding chocolate to my oatmeal cookies before this???!!
I mean, REALLY! Chocolate in anything is good. In an oatmeal cookie?!
Perfection.
Seriously.
Sure, I’ve made my share of oatmeal cookie recipes with chocolate chips. That combo of chewy soft oatmeal and sweet chocolate is pretty much universally loved, right?
This is the first time I’ve taken my oatmeal cookies to the next level of chocolate decadence by putting cocoa powder in the actual dough. And ohmygoodness I have no regrets.
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I’m posting this recipe as the first installment to a wonderful new group that I’ve joined with some pretty sensational bloggers called ‘Cookie of the Month’!
We are a group of bloggers who have gotten together to bring our fantastic readers one cookie recipe a month. This cookie recipe has to contain a certain ingredient and we need to come up with a recipe using it.
This month…no, it wasn’t chocolate. It was oatmeal!
Be sure to check out the other incredible oatmeal cookie recipes from…
Jen’s Favorite Cookies – Oatmeal Cut Out Cookies
Bake or Break – Cherry-White Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Crumb: A Food Blog – Lemon Oatmeal Creme Cookies
Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
This oatmeal cookie recipe starts with a basic drop cookie dough. It has a little less flour than some oatmeal cookie recipes since the cocoa powder adds a little extra volume to the dry ingredients. Uncooked oats and dark chocolate chips folded into the batter make the cookie dough complete.
Drop onto a cookie sheet, bake, cool and enjoy! Just a warning. . . these can truly be irresistible if you’re a chocolate lover. If you’re making these for a party, you may need to hide them from yourself to keep them from “accidentally” disappearing.
While I highly recommend using the dark chocolate chips, if you’re not a fan of dark chocolate you can definitely swap them out. Semi-sweet chocolate chips would taste wonderful in these oatmeal cookies and so would milk chocolate!
I love white chocolate chips in these Pecan Oatmeal White Chocolate Chip Cookies so I imagine they’d make a delicious substitute for the dark chocolate in this recipe, too.
At the end of the day, though, I’m pretty over the moon about the dark chocolate goodness in this recipe! If you love dark chocolate as much as I do, you need to make these Dark Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal Cookies and these Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies next.
Cookie of the Month
I’m excited to see what next month brings. The group was started by Jennifer of Jen’s Favorite Cookies and you’ll be able to see what she and other bloggers have made by clicking the links below! This month is a little sparse because of the holidays and all, January 5th came up REAL quick like!
Next month we’ll have plenty of yummy cookies for you to drool over.
In the mean time, get your cookie baking fix with these other oatmeal cookie recipes. . .
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies taste like fall baked into a cookie. And if you like the combo of apples and oats, you absolutely must try my Apple Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies!
Speaking of peanut butter, I’ve made my share of peanut butter cookies over the years (they’re my husband’s all time favorite). Easy 13 minute, 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies are the simplest classic peanut butter cookie you’ll ever make. Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies are delicious just as is or with the addition of chocolate chips.
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Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Rich, chocolatey and chewy, these chocolate oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips are a sweet treat everyone loves.
Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup unsalted butter room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together, about 4 minutes.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until thoroughly combined.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating just until combined.
- Mix in the oats.
- Mix in the dark chocolate chips.
- Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes, until set.
- Allow to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
If you like these Double Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies, you’ll enjoy…
Cream Cheese Cookies
Dark Chocolate Cherry Oatmeal Cookies
Double Chocolate Toffee Cookies
When Christmas rolls around next, you’ll also want to whip up a batch of these Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies!
I sometimes rate things I make on a scale of 1-4 with 4 being the best and these Double Chocolate Chip Cookies earned 3 1/2 rolling pins! I just really cannot believe I haven’t made these before now.
Well, I suppose there’s a right time for everything and these wonderful cookies weren’t supposed to be a part of my life until now, so there you go. At least they came into my life eventually! I know they’ll be a regular feature in my kitchen from now on.
Mmmm. .. I might just need to bake another batch of these right now. I hope you like them as much as I do!
This recipe has been shared at the link party, Time To Sparkle #94 at Inside BruCrew Life! Check all of the incredible recipes and ideas shared from other bloggers there!
Comments & Reviews
I love oats and chocolate together! These look fantastic!
Those look really delicious – yum! Going to give this a try.
Brilliant! I’ve had chocolate chip oatmeal cookies but not double chocolate. Love it!
Genius! I can’t believe I’ve never thought of putting chocolate right in the oatmeal cookies either… I guess oatmeal chocolate chip is just so ingrained in my brain that I didn’t even think of other ways to add chocolatey goodness to the mix. Derp. 🙂
All these need to achieve total perfection is a big glass of milk for dunking!
Double chocolate always gets me 🙂 These cookies sound awesome!
Would love to add walnuts/raisins to the mixture…sounds good?
Miss SG, you could definitely do that. What a great idea!
Can I use quick cooking oats instead?
Brenda, you definitely can use quick oats. They’re just going to be a softer consistency. I interchange them all the time in my cookies. 🙂
How many cookies does this make? sounds beautiful <3
Ramsha, unfortunately, the family started eating them before I could get a count. I’m thinking around three dozen give or take.
Oatmeal is always great. I will try your recipe for my breakfast.
I tried this recipe today with the following changes. 1/2 cup butter and 1/4 cup Natural Peanut Butter, 1 cup flour(instead of 1 1/2-I used 1/2 white whole wheat flour), 1 1/4 cup sugar(2 cups seemed like a lot).
They are delicious!! They didn’t spread quite as nicely as the picture, probably due to less sugar. However, I know 2 cups would have been too sweet for me. I will probably use 1/4-1/2 cup less oatmeal next time and they will be perfect.
Thank you!!
That’s awesome! Thanks so much for commenting and letting me know. I like the idea of cutting down on the sugar as I think it was a bit too sweet for me as well.
These cookies are absolutely fantastic. This is my second time to make them – even the dough is good. After two failed attempts at cookies earlier today, this recipe is the perfect one to adjust my frazzled state. Thank you!
Oh, Athelas, I’m so glad to hear that, but sorry for your frazzled state! Thank you so much for letting me know.
I hate days like that in the kitchen. I had one the other day when I had to redo a recipe four times in order to get it right. I was SO done by the time it actually worked that I couldn’t stand to look at it anymore. haha
Keep at it girl!
Just made these! So delish! I used mini chocolate chips and steel cut oats since that what’s I had and love them!!!! Resisting from eating all the batter!
Lauren, that’s awesome! Thanks so much for letting me know. Don’t worry, your secret would be safe with me if you ate all the batter. 😉
Made theses today and they were very good. Can you freeze theses.??
And can I use my old oatmeal recipe ” Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies”. From Quaker. Has pretty much the same ingredients.
If I were to omit the chocolate chips would I need to add in anything to compensate?
Excellent! These are delicious. A perfect treat as we are isolated. Thank you!
Wonderful! I add a few chocolate chips, but also toffee bits and pecans. My husband loves the dough so I started using flaxseed eggs so they are safe, and simply put the dough balls in the fridge. They are a staple here now. Thank you!
used peanut butter chips instead of choc ones, and made them into bar cookies, yum