In this blog, I will be looking over a childhood recipe that I have loved since I had the ability to taste: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

This recipe is basically if the classic chocolate chip cookie and the oatmeal raisin cookie had an offspring. It’s basically just an oatmeal raisin cookie with a little extra brown sugar and chocolate chips as a replacement for the raisins. The oatmeal adds a nice flakiness to the cookie, which is combined with the soft, buttery texture.

The recipe starts like every cookie recipe, creaming the fats and the sugars together. With the fat being butter and the sugars being white and brown. The brown sugar adds the classic chocolate chip cookie element to the recipe. 

Then the rest of the necessities for any cookie recipe are added in, such as eggs, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and vanilla extract to taste. Then the oatmeal raisin element is added, which obviously is oatmeal. Even though oatmeal cookies are pretty popular, there’s something that makes them so unique. 

And finally, chocolate chips, the staple of the entire recipe, are added in. The unguarded bag of chocolate chips sitting on the counter while my mom was making cookies hated to see me as a kid coming. 

Another thing to add to the list of many reasons why I love this recipe is how fast they bake. A quick recipe that doesn’t require long periods of waiting is always a good one because it takes away the stress of having to make sure you do everything before the timer goes off.

This recipe is full of nostalgia because of how often my mom would make them when I was little, and how excited I was every time she did. A solid 10/10.