Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies
Why settle for just a few ingredients when you can jam pack as much flavor and texture combos into one delicious cookie? These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies are a tongue twister, in more ways than one!Peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip coconut cookies. Now say that three times fast. I guess this is why some bakers who like to load up their cookies with tons of ingredients end up giving them cute names like the Chunky Lola or Sausalito. I like to just tell it how it is with my cookies – straight up ingredients. Also I don’t think anyone is going to want to bake a cookie called the Chunky Becca. Ba da zing!
So I’m aware that I’ve been leaving you guys hanging with blog posts the past few weeks, but I’m here now and that’s all that matters. I’ll write up a Nutshell recap this week so I can list out all of the excuses why I’m a few weeks behind in these posts even though I tease you with preview pics on Insta.
At my friend Allie’s bachelorette, I met one of the other bridesmaids Ashley who is a super amazing chef in NYC. As part of our Bachelorette goodie bags she hooked us up with a jar of amazing granola from her restaurant. I really can’t put into words how good this stuff is, but if there was a black market for it, I’d absolutely be selling it on the street corners.
I legit consumed an entire Mason jar worth of it in an embarrassingly short period of time. So when I ended up in NYC shortly after meeting Ashley for work, I visited her at her restaurant and she gave me another jar of this addicting goodness and the secret recipe. Which I can’t tell you, or I’d have to kill you.
So last week when I was making a batch of the granola at home to give to some of my friends (and some for myself) I decided to mix up some of the extra ingredients I had and throw it into a cookie to see how it would turn out. I have a few other variations in my head that are a little more granola-ey but for this batch I decided to use some of the extra oatmeal and coconut flakes and put them into a peanut butter cookie. I’m not sure it is quite as healthy as the granola, but these cookies are certainly just as addicting!
Ingredients:
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup toasted coconut
- 2 cups milk chocolate chips
Step 1: Heat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment and spread coconut evenly. Bake for 7 to 8 minutes stirring occasionally until lightly golden. Set aside to cool.
Step 2: Cream together the butter and sugars on a high speed. Add in the peanut butter, vanilla extract and egg and mix well. Scrape down the side of the bowl before adding in the dry ingredients.
Step 3: Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and slowly add to the batter while mixing on a low speed. Add in the oats and mix just until incorporated.
Step 4: Slowly mix in the coconut and chocolate chips until evenly distributed. Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes before scooping.
Step 5: On a sil-pat or parchment-lined baking sheet, use a medium cookie scoop to place even-size balls of dough at least two inches apart. Bake at 350°F for 10 to 12 minutes just until the edges are lightly golden. Let the cookies set on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.
These cookies have the best of both worlds of lots of flavor and great texture. The peanut butter cookie base is soft and chewy while the toasted coconut adds a nice little crunch. And you can never go wrong with the peanut butter and chocolate combo.
Luckily as soon as I photographed these I packaged them up and had Skip drop them off at our neighbor’s house since they had a full house for the long weekend and I needed these cookies to be out of arm’s reach.
For some reason oatmeal cookies always feel like a fall cookie to me, so I’m already starting to curb my end-of-summer-depression with some new fall recipe planning. Bring on the apples and salted caramel! What are some of your favorite fall flavors?
OMG looks delish -I’m a big fan of the Oatmeal chocolate chip – but have never added peanut butter and I love peanut better. (It mixes well w/ the coconut? – something I would not have thought.)
These cookies also look chewie vs. crisp (which I prefer (the former)) – True?
Thanks for the share.
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I made these cookies today. They are so good!
That’s awesome, I love hearing that!
I wanted to make cookies a couple years ago and couldn’t decide which ones I had was craving most. I literally typed in peanut butter chocolate chip coconut oatmeal cookie and this recipe popped up.
I can’t remember how many dozens of these I’ve made but here I am again, today, making these for a friend….okay, and some for us 😉
These are absolutely my favorite cookie. I usually double the recipe because my family will end up swiping spoonfuls of the dough over the days between making the rest of them. Perfect recipe. I’ve thought about adding chopped pecans but never have yet. My teenage daughter likes to bake and I’m going to be sure when she leaves home she has a copy of this recipe.
I love this! Thanks so much for sharing. These cookies are a favorite of mine as well. I think you can definitely fit some chopped pecans in here. I might just reduce the amount of coconut + chocolate chips to do that. Sometimes I add so many mix-ins that there’s not enough dough to hold the cookie together. Let me know if you try it out! Toasted pecans, coconut and chocolate sound so good!
Something went terribly wrong. Cookies would not stick together. What a disappointment because they smelled wonderful. No ide what went wrong.
Oh no, I’m sorry to hear that. Sometimes baking with peanut butter can be tricky. If the dough feels too crumbly in your hands, add a little extra peanut butter. make sure to use a PB like Skippy brand – not a natural one – as the natural ones sometimes are too dry because of the oil separation. You can also chill the dough before. Hope that helps for next time!
I can’t seem to find out the amount of cookies this recipe makes. Please advise. Thanks.
Hi Susanna – Sorry about that! I believe this recipe makes between 24-32 cookies depending on how big you make the balls of dough. Enjoy!
Honestly, this wasn’t a flavor combo I would have thought of on my own, but when I made these for the first time…omg!🥰
I now know this is a flavor combo I will never give up!!!
When looking at the recipe, I thought maybe 1 C of flour wasn’t enough, but when the cookies start to cool, they come out perfectly chewy. I used 1/2 C shortening along w/butter and they came out SO GOOD! I’m really happy w/this recipe, definitely try it , you’ll love it!!💯
When you mentioned salted carmel above, I thought that might make a wonderful addition. We used to buy an oatmeal carmel bar mix at the store, but they have not made it for years. It was one of our favorites that we would make all the time, but I’m not a chef who could come up with a recipe. So thought I could add carmel to this recipe, or maybe just as a drizzle over the top of them. Yum!