BEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe started as a request from my goddaughter Piper and her sister Alden. They noticed I didn’t have a chocolate chip cookie recipe on the site and called me to suggest, with as much insistence as nine year old and eleven year old girls can muster (which is substantial by the way) that I come up with one.

Well girls, this cookie is for you.

Though, it’s probably not what you expected.

Frankly, I don’t find regular chocolate chip cookies that exciting. I want cookies to have substance, something more than plain cookie dough speckled with chocolate chips.

So my dears, this cookie is an oatmeal cookie, a chewy oatmeal cookie, with chocolate chips, pecans, because they go so well with chocolate, and browned butter, because of all that wonderful nutty flavor from the browned bits of the butter.

Now, dear Alden and Piper, I know in the past you have hand picked out and discarded every morsel of walnut or pecan in any baked good your mother made for you.

If you are still practicing this lunacy, you may leave out the pecans. Your loss, they taste great in this cookie.

Browning the butter is easy! It takes about ten minutes, and is so worth it. You will taste the difference.

You just have to watch it so the butter doesn’t burn, or then you’ll have blackened butter, not browned butter, and you’ll have to throw it out and your mother will get angry at me for inspiring you to do something that resulted in wasting 2 sticks of butter.

The real variable in this recipe is the shredded coconut. It’s just there for texture. If you add a cup of sweetened shredded coconut to the mix, the cookies will be chewier. You can easily leave it out. Or try some with it, and some without to see which cookie you like better.

Hope you like it! (And please let me know which version you ended up with – with or without pecans or coconut.)

BEST Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Brown the butter first, as the butter is cooling, prep the other ingredients. Never browned butter before? See our detailed how-to here: How to Brown Butter

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks, 8 oz, 225 g) unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
• 2 eggs (large), lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 Tbsp water
• 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
• 1 cup sweetened, shredded coconut (optional)
• 3 cups Old Fashioned rolled oats (Quick oats are okay, but not steel cut, not instant)

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