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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Candy Cookies

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Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Course Dessert
Servings 6 dozen

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 1 ½ cups brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
  • 1¾ cups old fashioned oats
  • 2 cups candies (the kind with the colorful hard shells with Ms on them)
  • ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder in a medium bowl; set aside.
  • In the bowl of your stand mixer, or a large mixing bowl, add butter and sugar and mix for about 2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time. Then add the vanilla and mix well.
  • Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mixing until just combined. Do not overmix.
  • Stir in the oats, candies, and chocolate chips with a wooden spoon.
  • **Refrigerate for at least one hour.**
  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a cookie/ice cream scoop, place 12 mounds of cookie dough on your baking sheet (or if they're larger sheets like mine, you can do 15 mounds), flattening them out a bit as you go. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until they are slightly brown around the edges, but still a bit soft in the middle.
  • Place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Notes

  • You could use just candies or just chocolate chips instead of both, but hey more chocolate is more better, right?
  • If you want the candies to really be visible on your cookies, make sure you have some extra and place a few on the raw cookie dough mounds before you bake them.
  • I use a smaller cookie scoop so these oatmeal chocolate chip candy cookies are on the small side. They could definitely be made larger though. Just be sure to adjust your baking time accordingly.