Description
Delicious peanut butter oatmeal cookies with mini M&M’s and chocolate chips.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 large eggs
- 1¼ cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter (softened)
- 1½ cups creamy peanut butter
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4½ cups quick oats
- 1 cup miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup mini M&M’s (or regular M&M’s)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°. Prepare a cookie sheet (or a few) by spraying with cooking spray, lining with parchment paper, or a silpat liner.
- In a large mixing bowl with a handheld mixer, or use the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together the eggs, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until smooth and combined.
- Add the softened butter, peanut butter, baking soda, vanilla, and salt. Beat together until combined.
- Add the quick oats, mini chocolate chips, and M&M’s. Beat on low speed (increase speed gradually as needed) until everything is mixed well and combined.
- Use a cookie scoop, or grab about 2 tablespoons of dough, and place 12 cookies per cookie sheet. Bake for 7-9 minutes. These should look slightly underdone when you take them out of the oven. They will bake more as they cool and will set up as they cool as well. The tops will be lightly golden brown. My cookies are perfect (after cooling and all) after a 7½ minute bake time.
- If wanted, immediately after the cookies come out of the oven, gently press a few additional M&M’s onto the top of each cookie.
- Keep leftovers in an airtight container on the countertop at room temperature. You can also freeze the baked cookies OR freeze the dough balls and bake when needed.
Notes
- The cookies don’t spread much while making so I like to do this to help the spread slightly and to make them look pretty.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 9 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 120mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 18g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 30mg