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Double Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies

Published on January 22, 2015 • Last updated January 28, 2019 by Elizabeth
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Because sometimes chocolate chunk cookies are required.

Double chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

I’ve made cookies!

Regular readers will be aware that it’s been ages since I’ve posted anything even remotely sweet and indulgent like a cookie or cake recipe. That’s because I’ve not been making such treats, or anything even hinting at calorific as I attempt to lose the extra weight I piled on last year (12 lbs down, btw!).

I’ve got one of those naturally trim husbands (I’m insanely jealous, you should know). How he does it, I don’t know, given my love of cooking and baking and the endless supply of food he has at his fingertips. No, I tell you know he does it – he firmly believes that pudding is something which should be eaten only if you are feeling hungry!

Double chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

Seriously! After you’ve finished your dinner and if you are still feeling hungry, only then can you indulge in a sweet treat. Not because sweet treats are a pleasure and enjoyment to eat, but rather simply to fill a biological hunger gap. So, since he fills up on his dinner the pudding, cake, biscuits, etc get neglected.

I don’t want the children to gorge themselves on sweet treats either, so after they’ve had a reasonable serving that leaves the majority of the treat sitting there on the kitchen counter, gently calling me come 9 pm at night while I’m watching Netflix. One cookie leads to three, and then the next thing you know I’ve lost count and I’ve put on two kilos.

So, for the sake of my waistline, I stopped making treats.

Until yesterday.

Our neighbourhood has turned into a building site. All the houses are having some serious external refurbishments – new roofs, new outer walls, new windows, new outer doors. From 8am – 4pm every day all I hear is the sound of jackhammers and heavy plant, and they haven’t even started on our house yet (we are in Phase 2, scheduled to start in March). From the vantage point of my kitchen table I watch them demolish my neighbours houses. I’ve felt really bad for them as the whole first week they were here it rained, relentlessly, lashing painful precipitation. This week we’ve seen sun at least!

builders collage

I have it under good authority that builders can polish off an entire cake in 2.8 seconds flat (a blogging friend of mine has had builders working on her house for the last five months and she has said this is the case) so, to solve the problem of not baking while I’m dieting, I’ve taken to dropping off some home bakes for the builder’s morning break time.

Win-win!

Last week they got a banana bread (three day old, as, like I said, my family seem to forget I’ve baked and the cake gets neglected) and this week they’ve had two lots of chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies, a recipe adapted from the age old Neiman Marcus £250 cookie recipe scrawled in my ancient notebook.

I did taste test one (completely blowing my daily carbohydrate allowance yesterday) and I can attest to their awesomeness; a lovely oatmeal cookie base dotted with proper ooey-gooey chunks of chocolate. Blending the porridge oats before adding them to the mixture imparts a rather smooth and chewy texture to the biscuit.

Double chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

Double Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies

Plain and white chocolate chunks bring these blended oatmeal cookies to a whole new level!
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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Servings: 50 cookies
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

  • 225 grams butter softened
  • 250 grams granulated sugar
  • 200 grams light brown soft sugar
  • 2 large free-range eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 250 grams porridge oats blended to a fine powder
  • 350 grams plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/2 tsp Shetland sea salt
  • 150 grams plain chocolate coarsely chopped
  • 150 grams white chocolate coarsely chopped

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Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 190 C.
  • Cream butter and sugars together until light and fluffy.
  • Add the eggs and vanilla and beat well.
  • Stir in the finely ground porridge oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  • Fold in the coarsely chopped chocolate.
  • Pinch off pieces of dough the size of a small walnut. Roll into balls and place on a baking tray 2 inches apart.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes, until light golden. Leave to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

cookie collage

Linking up with Alphabakes by Ros The More Than Occasional Baker and Caroline at Caroline Makes. This month the letter we are challenged to bake with is L, and as this recipe includes light brown sugar it fits the challenge.

I’m also linking up with Recipe Clippings, a new blogging challenge by Janice over at Farmersgirl Kitchen. This recipe has been lurking in my book since 1996 and this was the first time I’d ever made it (well, a variation of it given the ingredients I had available in my kitchen!).

The Biscuit Barrel by Laura of I’d Much Rather Bake Than… and guest hosted this month by Alexandra, The Lass in the Apron, asks us to share recipes with a new technique or innovation. I’ve never blended oatmeal to a powder before to use in a cookie recipe, so I’m sharing this recipe with them.

Tea Time Treats, co-hosted by Jane at Hedgecombers and Karen at Lavender & Lovage is all about packed lunches. Hubby took some of these biscuits to work with him in his packed lunch, so I reckon it qualifies (Note: I suspect if I hadn’t given half the cookies away to the builders he would have forgotten about them like he usually does! I might be on to something here!)

OTHER CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIE RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE
Buckwheat and Chia Seed Chocolate Chip Cookies by Nazima
Chocolate Melting Moments by Camilla
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Chunk Cookies by Elizabeth
Double Chocolate Coconut Cookies by Elizabeth
Chocolate Chip Cookies by Jen
Chocolate and Cacao Nib Heart Cookies by Laura

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Category: All Manner of Sweet Things, Baking, Chocolate, Cookies, Food Blogging Challenges, RecipeTag: Alphabakes, Biscuit Barrel, cookies, Recipe Clippings, Tea Time Treats

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Comments

  1. Jorgelina

    August 16, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    I love oatmeal cookies, these look amazing!

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  2. Ursula Hunt

    April 20, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Nothing beats a homemade biscuit with a cup of tea

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  3. Irene Murdoch

    March 8, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    I want to try making these – they look yummy

    Reply
  4. Maya Russell

    March 8, 2015 at 7:29 am

    Have roofers here tomorrow. You have given me a great recipe for Builder’s Biscuits!

    Reply
  5. carolyn joyce

    March 2, 2015 at 11:29 am

    I am poorly in bed right now and so NEED some of these to help me recover lol. I dont reckon anyone is going to make them for me though lol

    Reply
    • Elizabeth

      March 2, 2015 at 12:06 pm

      Oh dear! I hope you are feeling better soon!

      Reply
  6. Penny H

    February 15, 2015 at 1:08 pm

    These look so good! I can’t believe that cake is made and LEFT in your house, we have the opposite problem here…..

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  7. Heather Haigh

    February 14, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    Yum! Nuff said.

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  8. Sarah Gibson

    February 10, 2015 at 11:44 am

    These look lovely will definitely be making these with my son

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  9. Choclette

    February 5, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    CT never seems to put weight on and he eats masses. Luckily for me he’s more than happy to eat all the bakes I make – when I haven’t given them to someone else that is. These biscuits look delicious Elizabeth. I bet the builders loved you.

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  10. Heather Haigh

    February 5, 2015 at 11:32 am

    Cookies are one of my favourite things to make. And to eat. Lots…. Yours look delicious

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  11. Paul Wilson

    February 5, 2015 at 11:15 am

    Love homemade biscuits.

    Reply
  12. Fiver Feeds

    February 1, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    These cookies look so delicious, I’m really gonna try making them. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

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  13. Janie

    January 31, 2015 at 10:10 am

    So, in Chinese medicine it is believed that to promote your digestive energy, a SMALL amount of sweet food should be consumed after a meal. There. Fact. So tell your hubby that whilst nibbling at one(?) after dinner cookie 😉
    Janie x
    PS thanks for linking up to Tea Time Treats!

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  14. Laura

    January 31, 2015 at 12:14 am

    I really cannot desribe how wonderful and inviting that tower of cookies looks. The only thing stopping me baking a batch is that my skin doesn’t seem to like oats – bizarre I know seeing as oats are supposed to be good for your skin! Please tell the builders the next time they get some that they need to enjoy an extra one each for me =D

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  15. bakingaddict

    January 28, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    Cookies are my weakness and I don’t think I’d be able to resist these! Lucky builders – bet they were extremely grateful. Thanks for entering AlphaBakes

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  16. Emily @amummytoo

    January 28, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    They look like just my kind of cookies – lovely clear, bright pics too.

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  17. Paul Wilson

    January 25, 2015 at 4:25 am

    They do look delicious.

    Reply
  18. Kate - gluten free alchemist

    January 25, 2015 at 1:23 am

    I have a husband too who seems to think that cakes and biscuits should be a rare treat and is largely unexcited by sweet stuff (I have made it a mission to try and tempt him with everything I make!)
    The cookies look very melt in the mouth and delicious. I use a lot of home-made oat flour in my cooking….. I love them!

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  19. Nikki Fraser

    January 23, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    they look really yummy and you managed to get a lot of cookies out to the recipe. Reading this has made my tummy rumble and my sweet tooth kick in.

    Reply
  20. Keep Calm and Fanny On

    January 23, 2015 at 9:42 am

    Lovely, I might just have to whip up a batch… Sadly no workmen around to scoff them, but I’m sure they’ll soon disappear!

    Reply
  21. Jen @ Blue Kitchen Bakes

    January 22, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    Gorgeous looking cookies and lucky builders, sounds like they needed a treat working in the bad weather. My OH has an annoying habit to forget about things I’ve made sometimes, other times he’ll scoff away happily. Unlike your hubby he has a very sweet tooth and he would prioritise pudding over mains if he could, another naturally slim man too! Well done on the weight loss, it’s a great achievement 🙂

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  22. Janice

    January 22, 2015 at 8:58 pm

    Lovely cookies. I too have a slim husband but unlike yours he always has room for pudding or cakes but seems not to put on weight the way I do! Thanks for joining me for #RecipeClippings

    Reply
  23. Helen

    January 22, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    These look delish! Will try them soon.

    Helen x

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  24. Holly Hollyson

    January 22, 2015 at 7:37 pm

    They look good. My Luke is always super trim too 🙁

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  25. Michelle @ Greedy Gourmet

    January 22, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Gorgeous looking cookies! Well done with your weight loss. Going low carb takes some getting used to but in my case having one day off a week lifts my spirit enough to last another 6 days. Let’s get sex-ay!

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  26. Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche

    January 22, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    YES! Love that they’ve got huge chocolate chunks rather than just small chocolate chips. And I very much admire your willpower not to eat the lot!

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  27. Gemma

    January 22, 2015 at 1:14 pm

    Good lord, these look amaaazing! Would love one of those with my cuppa right now x

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  28. Sarah @tamingtwins

    January 22, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    These look heavenly! I think it is your DUTY to taste test before giving away isn’t it..?

    Reply
  29. lisa prince

    January 22, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    omg they actually look so melt in the mouth to die for edible , mmm yummy

    Reply
  30. Nazima Pathan

    January 22, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Well done you – such lovely cookies and you are resisting temptation. I do like that you have at least 2 other choc chip cookie variants of your own on the blog! good luck with the building work!

    Reply

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