Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cook time: 16 min
Yield: 32 cookies
Ingredients: 1 each all-purpose flour; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp baking soda; 0.75 tsp salt; 1 cup unsalted butter; 1 cup packed light; 0.5 cup granulated sugar; 2 each eggs; 1 tbsp unsulphured; 2 tsp pure vanilla extract; 3 cup old-fashioned whole rolled oats; 1 each semi-sweet chocolate chips; 1 each flaky sea salt for sprinkling

Sally · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2025 · Original Recipe

With oats, butter, and mostly all brown sugar, you are guaranteed a soft and chewy oatmeal cookie. Use this perfect oatmeal cookie as the base for other add-ins such as raisins, dried cranberries, and

chewiness

crispiness

cakeyness

thickness

spread

richness

sweetness

complexity

very chocolatey

Ingredients

all-purpose flour(188g)1 each (188g)

ground cinnamon(optional)1 tsp (3g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

salt0.75 tsp (2g)

unsalted butter(16 Tbsp; 226g, softened to room temperature)1 cup (227g)

packed light(200g)1 cup (200g)

granulated sugar(100g)0.5 cup (100g)

eggs(at room temperature)2 each (100g)

unsulphured(15ml)1 tbsp (9g)

pure vanilla extract2 tsp (8g)

old-fashioned whole rolled oats(255g)3 cup (255g)

semi-sweet chocolate chips(315g)1 each (315g)

flaky sea salt for sprinkling1 each (6g)

Total dough weight1.4kg

Process

Mixing: creaming
Butter: room temp
Eggs: whole
Bake Temp: 350°F (177°C)
Bake Time: 14-16 min
Chill: 45 min
Yield: ~32 cookies
Sheet Prep: parchment

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 3.0. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat0.83 (8th percentile)

Flour:Sugar1.88 (86th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.53 (96th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.68 (93th percentile)

Fat %16.0 (51th percentile)

Sugar %7.04 (2th percentile)

Hydration0.53 (93th percentile)

Bake Temp350 (42th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.83

Flour:Sugar

1.88

Brown:White Sugar

Egg:Flour

0.53

Chocolate:Flour

1.68

Fat %

16.0

Sugar %

7.04

Flour %

13.2

Hydration