Excuse me if I got you all hot and bothered over a whole week of savory recipes.
That’s next week.
Today, my friends, is Friday and time for one last cookie recipe before I begrudgingly stow away the chocolate and sugar for a week. Note that I still will be consuming both (who do you think I am, anyway?). I’m just not baking with them, that’s all.
I honestly don’t know what has come over me. I like to think it’s three pounds of cheese.
Anyways! These cookies are loaded with dark chocolate, dried cranberries and toasted walnuts and are, hands down, my favorite way to enjoy oatmeal.
There’s just something about a warm, chewy oatmeal cookie that gets me every time. However, I hate raisins. Oatmeal raisin cookies? No thank you.
When I bake oatmeal cookies I load them with something even better: chocolate.
And cranberries…and walnuts! Sometimes even peanuts. Heck, you could pretty much load whatever you want in these cookies. But if it’s raisins, don’t tell me about it.
With a dough like this, it doesn’t really matter anyway.
Loaded Oatmeal Cookies
makes about 3 dozen cookies
1 3/4 cup old fashioned oats
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 stick butter, softened
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup toasted chopped walnuts
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
1/3 cup dried cranberries
Preheat the oven to 375.
In a medium sized bowl, stir together the oats, flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, walnuts, cranberries and chocolate chips. Set aside.
Cream together the brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and continue to beat until smooth. Add the dry ingredients and beat only until combined.
Scoop out whopping tablespoons of dough on a lined baking sheet. Flatten a little with your fingers (works best if your fingers are wet so the dough won’t stick as much). Bake for 10 minutes, or until golden brown.
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I’m ready to get in the kitchen and bake a batch of these up. You can never go wrong with chocolate + oatmeal. Except… adding peanut butter??
Wow, those look absolutely stellar. Chocolate, cranberries AND walnuts? In one cookie? It’s a one way ticket to cookie rehab!
Wow, these look so amazing! Now, I’m going to have to make some.
Can you magically make two of these appear next to my just filled mug of coffee?
Thanks
these cookies remind me of my mom’s – a little bit of everything and delicious!
also i totally degree chocolate is way better than raisins
I’d prefer this to be my Friday breakfast
these look great! I’d love to put craisins, white chocolate chips, and walnuts in them!
I love oatmeal raisin Jenna…with walnuts too. I’ve been craving that kind of cookie actually. I love your combination, too
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Many feel this way towards raisins in oatmeals. I, however, have an oatmeal cookie (fully equipped with delicious) that keeps them coming back for more. It’s a cookie of its own, really. Keep your options open.
delicious raisins**
I LOVE raisins with chocolate in my cookies
These look like monster cookies without the peanut butter! And they look amazing. I want one.
loaded indeed! i love adding things like cranberries or tart cherries to chocolate to cut the richness with acidity a little bit. and walnuts? heck yes!
3 words that belong together- loaded. oatmeal.cookies. <—amazing!
I agree with you-chocolate, not raisins!
Ooh, these look good and I am so with you on raisins in cookies. Why do people do that? It ruins a perfectly good sweet good. I think I’m going to have to bake these – my lazy side likes that I already have all of the ingredients in my cupboard!
Ah, totally agree — I can’t handle raisins in cookies. What are they DOING there?? The worst disappointment is thinking that you are biting into an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie… and then tasting raisins.
Apparently I don’t look too carefully at my food before horking it down.
Yes. This. I hate that. Especially when you’re SURE it’s a chocolate chip….
these look amazing!!
this is very close to the recipe i use! my favorite cookies ever
I completely agree with you about raisins – they ruin anything from cookies to breads to muffins! Oatmeal + chocolate, though, I am happy!
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my absolute favorite! I can’t wait to try this recipe
Those look fantastic! I made some salted oatmeal cookies over the holidays and they were fan-tas-tic.
Oatmeal cookies. Walnuts. Chocolate.
These may just get me through the remaining 6 months of winter here in the Northwoods. Fact.
love,
cathy b. @ brightbakes
I hate raisins too! Gah-rossssss. And the whole “they’re just grapes” argument – um, no, they’re not.
Oatmeal cookies are my favorite! I just made a batch of oatmeal chocolate chippers yesterday. Something about the great texture they have…yum! Yours look fabulous. I love the additional add-ins. Happy Friday!
These look phenomenal! I make a similar recipe using white chocolate and dried cranberries… that was my husbands only Christmas request this year!
I’m thinking tomorrow morning’s oatmeal will include dark chocolate, dried cranberries and walnuts. Who says you can’t have dark chocolate for breakfast?
dark chocolate is perfectly acceptable at breakfast! well, in my house anyways!
I’m with you on the raisins! Generally I like them, but just not in cookies! These cookies look amazing, I love cookies that are loaded with all different kinds of delicious flavors!
Oatmeal cookies are my favorite… adding cranberries and chocolate.. that is perfection.
I looove oatmeal cookies, but these have definitely stepped it up a notch! Awesome!
Chocolate chips > raisins, most certainly. I really don’t like raisins. This post is so timely, I’m heading to a friend’s house for a bakestravaganza and I suggested we make my favorite chocolate chip oatmeal cookies… now I’m considering picking up cranberries and walnuts, yum!
Oh my gosh! This looks amazing!
MUST try this recipe! These sound amazing. And I also hate raisins. Down with raisins!
they just freak me out! who wants shriveled grapes in their cookies?!
Oh, my. My husband loves chocolate chip cookies; I love oatmeal cookies. This looks like the perfect compromise.
Love the combo of cranberries and dark chocolate
Anything with “loaded” in the title has to be good!!
Wiping drool off of my keyboard, thanks, Jenna
I hate chocolate chips in my cookies too!! But I hate raisins and craisins in there too! I like my oatmeal cookies plain jane! Welcome back…glad you made it back safely and that you got to enjoy a wonderful vacation with your family.
OMG i love oats and raisins!! but i als love oats and anything else, starring this recipe, lve baking cookies!! and so do my family (and anyone else that happens t be in the house at the time of baking!!) x
LOOOOOVe oatmeal cookies like you would not believe!
My sister and I are obsessed with oatmeal cookies. These are definitely getting made this weekend!
Oh gosh I haven’t baked a thing in about three weeks (just got back from a long holiday) and these might be just the thing to get me into the kitchen. Love a good oatmeal cookie!
I love loaded oatmeal cookies! I like making less-sweet varieties as fuel for a long hike and picnic. I typically use oats, dried cranberries, dark chocolate chips, and pecans (since I have a very fruitful pecan tree in my backyard). I’m constantly experimenting with them.
a pecan tree! I am very jealous
My favorite cookie is an oatmeal, white chocolate cranberry cookie my sister makes. With a few tweaks I think this recipe could work for that!
Oatmeal cookies are my favorite! It’s something about the texture, I think.
I am making these babies this weekend! Absolutely! Thank you for sharing & yes, what a perfect way to enjoy oatmeal!
I’m a loyal fan to oatmeal, in its one true form that is: cookies. Thanks for getting my weekend off to a preeeettty tasty start
Oatmeal cookies are my favorite, love your loaded version!
I am totally making these cookies this weekend! Thanks for the recipe!
What beautiful and delicious cookies! I just posted about the impact of sugar on my acne–have you ever struggled with that? Or are you blessed with an “I can consume lots of cheese and bread and sugar and not break out” complexion? If so, I’m jealous!
I agree, no raisins in my cookies either! Or in my bread. Cinnamon raisin toast – blech. But cinnamon swirl toast (sans raisins)? Sign me up!
And I love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
I love oatmeal so much I eat it raw sometimes. Is that wrong? Because it feels so right. Haha!!
Oatmeal cookies are among my favourites! Looking forward to savoury week though.
My body has been really craving savoury after the sugar-fest that was the holidays. I literally woke up one day and was like, “I am going to have a slice of cheesecake. Oh wait, I finished the cheesecake.”
sounds delightful! i don’t like baking with raisins but i do enjoy eating them plain
these sound fantastic. my mom makes a loaded oatmeal cookie with dark chocolate, pecans, coconut and orange zest. it sounds a little unusual but it is amazing. one of those cookies that every one eats 3 of while trying to figure out what is in there that makes them taste so good and so unexpected!
My mom makes cookies just like these, and they are amazing!
i hate raisins too, although i used them recently in an apple muffin recipe, and i barely noticed them. but oatmeal raisin cookies aren’t cookies, that’s way too healthy sounding to be a dessert. could i use quick cooking oats in these? its what i got
“one last cookie recipe before I begrudgingly stow away the chocolate and sugar for a week. “—-
Awww, that makes it sounds like the butter and sugar and chocolate are going on a burial rite or something, No! haha!
This recipe looks great, Jenna! i love oatmeal cookies and I love that yours are loaded up. They look perfectly chewy and awesome!!!
Yes please !!
My brother’s faaaaaavorite cookies are oatmeal. He’s lives up in SF and I think I’ll be making a batch of these to mail to him. Thanks Jenna!
These remind me of the Super Charge Me cookies… but butterfied!
I agree, cookies are definitely the best way to eat oatmeal! These cookies look delicious!
Wish I could reach my hand right into the screen of my computer and grab one
These look fab!
YUM! My boyfriend also hates raisins so I will get major kudos if I re-create this….
I think that the dried cranberries *kind of* take the place of the raisins – both are dried fruit and add that sweet twang. But, you still gotta have the chocolate in there. Chocolate goes in everything.
I just put chocolate-chips in corn-bread I made.
Love the addition of cranberries. Makes for a festive treat. Yum Yum!
i made (and blogged) these today and they’re wonderful! thanks for sharing!
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These are so good! I just made them and they are so tasty
Thanks for sharing! 
I hate raisins in baked goods tooooo!! I thought I was the only one!
I always bake cookies for my co-workers for their birthdays and one guy asked for oatmeal raisin cookies specifically. I almost said NO, but I sucked it up and made them. Never again. I’ve now trained my coworkers to appreciate chocolate and cranberries so I don’t have to deal with that again.
Can’t wait to try your recipe!
This makes me crave Super Charge Me Cookies from Eat, Drink and Be Vegan! I haven’t had those in ages!!
these look amazing!!! LOve oatmeal cookies
mmmm those sound delicious!
You hate raisins period!? Oh no =/
Happy Cookie Friday! These sound dee-lish!
those look so good! i like chocolate better in oatmeal cookies too
In no way am I hot and bothered over a whole week of savory recipes. On the contrary, I am super excited! Bring on savory week!
I’m so excited for Savory Week too!!
Love this recipes and love love love savory recipes…sounds delicious Jenna…Have a great weekend…can’t wait to try these cookies, yummy!
mmm these look scrumptious! I love the addition of dark chocolate – more often than not, with oat and cranberry cookies you see white chocolate, and I’m not a huge fan. LOVE cranberries though. I will make these for sure! Thanks
Heidi xo
Um, yes please???
No raisins in your cookies? Everyone I know hates on raisins except for me. I’ll let it slide with you since your cookies have dark chocolate chips and I’m a sucker for anything with dark chocolate. Hopefully I can use a gluten-free flour mix with these and they’ll be just as tasty. I’m gonna keep my fingers crossed.
These are really good but my first batch got too crispy on the bottom. I will now use some Christmas money to buy a silpat or 2. They feel kind of healthy because of the hearty texture. Yep, definitely a health food.
Oooh, I just made cranberry and chocolate granola for the first time. Such a good combo!
Jenna,
I have a question for you cause I really admire you a lot. I’m thinking of starting a blog….I keep waiting for a perfect “time” and a perfect title….but , maybe there is no such thing. A lot of bloggers told me to think a lot about the title before jumping into a blog, and I agree… I guess I haven’t really sat down to think about it seriously…but I don’t want to overthink it either.
I would LOVE your opinion on some of these names (I was going to email u, but I thought you’d reply quicker if I just put it in your comments section).
My current random thoughts:
- life actually
- a cozy place
- a mug of cozy
- stories over tea (or with tea or something)
- tales over tea
- books and tea
- imagine
- word by word
- i’m human
- a new world
- ideas that really strike me are “The Tipping Point” (but I can’t really spin that one right….cause I don’t want it like HTP…but its just that that phrase means a lot to me)
or i love the title ” I’m (not) superhuman” which another girl has,,,cause this would totally apply to me…but I don’t know an alternative catchy phrase for that…
I am dealing with a lot of physical issues now. And I need to touch on them openly for some sanity….but, I don’t want to focus on it or make it negative or a “big” thing…so a blog will be an opportunity to explore other passions (reading and writing)…kind of a “cozy” place (my dream is a cozy place in life) to have some serene sane time for myself…practice my writing skills and find my true voice.
That list above is not exhaustive…there are more on my mind but I can’t seem to spin them right….should I just jump in and pick any old title (I want the URL to match the title)…or should i give it some more careful deliberation as many bloggers have advised.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Try adding a bit of cardamom to the cookies…heavenly!
I made these Friday night, but with a few slight tweaks. Instead of walnuts, choc chips and cranberries, I used 1/2c dried cherries and chopped up 4 ounces of a dark choc bar. Then sprinkled fleur de sel on top of each cookie before baking. Salty, tart, sweet and bitter all in one!
Oh! I spent NYE in Charleston too, and I think I saw you and Adam in a shop on NYE day. I did a bit of a double take!
So making these tonight
I just made these cookies and they are delicious! The cinnamon and oats stand out a lot in a great way. They NEED to be pushed down like the recipe says or else they wont cook all the way through the top but they will get too brown on the bottom. Thank you for yet another amazing recipe to make my day!
THis looks delicious! And the photography is perfect
Hi there,
First of all, I wanted to let you know that I think your blog is great and the pictures are always beautiful. My boyfriend and I just whipped up a batch of these cookies and they are delicious, but we are both partial to a chewier cookie any suggestions on how to make these a little less crunchy?
Thanks for the recipe!
Jenna-
I LOVE THESE COOKIES!! I haven’t made them with the cranberries (haven’t gotten any) or the walnuts (husband doesn’t like nuts) yet, so I just put more chocolate chips in there instead. They are SOOOO GOOD!!! This is my new ultimate, easy and delicious “go to” cookie recipe! My 19 month old son loves them too!
Thanks!
I made something similar on the weekend minus the oats! And was thinking next time I’d try make it a little more healthy/balance out the choc chunks. Perfect! Yum!! Thanks
Made these, but subbed in dried cherries for the cranberries. Absurdly good!!
My kind of cookie! I love oatmeal cookies and add cranberries and chocolate to mine also! Everyone thinks I’m crazy, till they try them!
oh i just made these…used ghiradelli chocolate chips and pecans instead of walnuts. seriously? YUM! reposting on my blog if that is OK…these need to be shared
I’m having friends over for dinner next week and want to make these. They look so good! Do you think if I made the dough the night before, refrigerated the dough overnight so I could pop them in the oven during dinner so they’re warm they would come out OK? Or should I just cook them they night before?
I definitely think so!
Oh good. Thanks!
This recipe looks amazing. What would recommend I substitute for the walnuts? I’m not a huge walnut person, and it’s your recipe so I thought you’d know best. Thanks
I made these for my friend who just found out she doesn’t have to go through chemo! GREAT news plus delicious cookies!!
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