The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

Snickers Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

I get asked this question all the time: what’s your favorite recipe??

And, honestly, I have a few. Definitely my mom’s frosted brownies. And this peanut butter apple dip is a daily snack in our house. M&M Brownie cookies, obviously. And omg these Baked Chocolate Donuts. I love them all, and any one of them is worthy of being my most top-notch favorite recipe.

But, as my frequent readers know, my heart will always and forever belong to chocolate chip cookies. As of now, I have 21 chocolate chip cookie recipes on my site (not including all the variations of those recipes). Some of my favorites have included these DoubleTree Hotel Cookies, AllRecipes.com #1 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe,  and these King Arthur Chocolate Chip Cookies.

The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

One of my very, very favorite recipes I’ve found as I’ve dug around for new chocolate chip cookie recipes has been this King Arthur Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. I have used it over and over and over again (here with M&MS and here with Reese’s Pieces), and it is consistently phenomenal.

And the recipe couldn’t be more straightforward.

Butter.

Brown sugar

Sugar.

An egg and an egg yolk (for extra thick and chewy cookies!).

Oatmeal and flour.

Aside from a few littles teaspoons of this and that, that’s really all there is to the recipe!

The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

Oh, and today, Snickers OF COURSE!

I couldn’t resist taking my favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe and adding my current candy bar crush to it.

You know the best part about adding Snickers to cookies? The ooey, gooey melted caramel and nougat. It’s THEE best, and I don’t know why we bother eating cookies any other way.

The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

The ultimate soft baked, super chewy cookie loaded with hearty oats and Snickers candy bars!

Take it from me: happy people eat warm cookies stuffed with Snickers.

So go out there and make some people happy!

You don't need a mix to make these soft and buttery chocolate chip cookies that taste like a sprinkle-filled piece of cake!

Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies From Scratch Recipe

You don’t need a mix to make these soft and buttery chocolate chip cookies that taste like a sprinkle-filled piece of cake!

You don't need a mix to make these soft and buttery chocolate chip cookies that taste like a sprinkle-filled piece of cake!

If you’re anything like me, you’re obsessed with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Obsessed. Could you tell? I like my cookies a little crispy and golden around the edges, soft and chewy in the middle, and PACKED with chocolate.

I also LOVE funfetti cake. Which is why I created this cake batter-cookie hybrid with lots of chocolate, sprinkles, and that buttery golden yellow cake taste (without using a cake mix).

You don't need a mix to make these soft and buttery chocolate chip cookies that taste like a sprinkle-filled piece of cake!

What gives us that cake batter taste without the cake mix?

Three simple extracts that, when combined, become a magical funfetti taste twin. Vanilla extract, almond extract, and butter extract (you can find all three of these at virtually any grocery store) all come together in this recipe to create cookies that taste just like cake batter.

If you’re not a fan of almond extract, have no fear. It won’t stand out on it’s own at all.

You don't need a mix to make these soft and buttery chocolate chip cookies that taste like a sprinkle-filled piece of cake!

Also necessary in this recipe? SPRINKLES.

Lots of sprinkles ????.

You don't need a mix to make these soft and buttery chocolate chip cookies that taste like a sprinkle-filled piece of cake!

Enjoy, friends!

These cookies have been my favorite by a landslide!

Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Crispy, chewy, butter, chocolate chip cookie perfection.

These cookies have been my favorite by a landslide!

The chocolate chip cookie. My favorite dessert on the planet. No, really. It is. I know I claim a lot of bests and ultimates and, yes, even favorites. But in truth, nothing will ever beat out a chocolate chip cookie for me.

Especially the RIGHT kind of chocolate chip cookie.

Now, I don’t discriminate, mind you. I like them all. From Chips Ahoy to bakery cookies to my own homemade batches– I love chocolate chips cookies.

But the right chocolate chip cookie? It’s like winning the cookie jackpot. And it’s different for everyone. Maybe your kind of chocolate chip cookie is soft and pillowy. Or maybe you like them crunchy. Maybe you like big chunks of melty chocolate oozing out the sides. Or maybe you like lots of mini chocolate chips in every single bit. Maybe you need a salty, buttery flavor. Or possibly you care more about subtle vanilla undertones.

We’ve all got our priorities when it comes to chocolate chip cookies.

For me? I need thick, crispy edges. I like the center to still be just a little bit underdone. And I really prefer cookies a little bit on the thinner side. Not like crunchy thin or barely-there-thin, it’s just I feel like thick cookies almost always get a little tough once they’ve sat a day or two– and I really don’t like that. The thinner cookies stay chewy, because they have a lower flour to fat/sugar ratio.

That buttery/salty flavor is a MUST. In fact, the saltier the better for me when it comes to CCC!

And I can really go just about any way with chocolate (chips, mini chips, shavings, chunks, etc…) as long as it’s semi-sweet. I went through a brief love affair with milk chocolate chips, but I keep coming back to semi-sweet. Always. ????

These cookies have been my favorite by a landslide!

These cookies have it all. At least for me, anyway. And I am completely smitten. ????

Those crispy, butter edges– be still my heart!

The flavor is spot on, the texture is fabulously chewy and perfectly underbaked in the center, and every bite is full of miniature chocolate chips. Seriously, these are the BEST chocolate chip cookies I’ve made in the chocolate chip cookie experiment.

If you like that buttery-crispy-chewy-underbaked-perfection sort of thing, that is. If you’re more of a thick and soft cookie person, check out these. They’re fabulous too.

These cookies have been my favorite by a landslide!

This recipe hails from a really fabulous BuzzFeed article all about the ultimate chocolate chip cookies. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to check it out. It’s a great read (if, ahem, you know, you like to read about chocolate chip cookies… and some of us do)!

And if you don’t want to read about them, that’s fine too. But seriously, make these cookies!

Enjoy ✌????❤️???? 🙂

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!

Quick & Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!

I’ve had several readers mention to me recently that they miss the chocolate chip cookie experiment.

And you know what? I do too.

You guys know that warm, fresh chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven are my very favorite dessert in the world.  Donuts, pancakes, yellow cake with chocolate frosting, and homemade bread all have a special place in my heart. But nothing, NOTHING, ever beats out a warm and gooey chocolate chip cookie in my book. Ever.

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!

In doing the chocolate chip cookie experiment, I’ve found several recipes that I’ve really loved and have made on several different occasions. But last weekend when I was craving my favorite cookie, I didn’t feel like doing my usual 10-second increments and rotations in the microwave to speed soften the butter to the exact perfectness of room temperature.

Annnnnd I just didn’t feel like dirtying up the KitchenAid mixer and dough paddle that I would have to hand wash. I was just feeling that lazy.

But I really did want cookies.

So I did some online research looking through cookie recipes that called for melted butter with no chill time, and patch-worked together my own version.

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!
This is butter straight from the fridge after 45 seconds in the microwave. It’s 90% melted, but some of the butter is still retaining a solid form (albeit very soft).

Typically, you don’t melt the butter in a cookie recipe unless you plan to chill the dough before baking, because the cookies will spread all over the baking sheet into a flat mess.

Which is what I fully expected to pull out of the oven when I experimented with the first batch of this recipe. But instead, when I opened the oven door, I found thick, puffy, PERFECT cookies! I made the recipe two more times, just to be sure it wasn’t a fluke. And every single time, I’ve been rewarded with the same results.

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!

Using melted butter and getting to forego the chill time speeds up the cookie making process considerably. And it eliminates a couple of extra dishes that can’t be tossed in the dishwasher (if you usually use a KitchenAid mixer or similar like I do).

It’s literally as simple as microwaving the butter, add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl, and stirring with a spoon. Which takes all of maybe 5 minutes. Pop ’em in the oven for 9 more, and ta-da! It’s cookie time!!

I’m in love with this recipe. It might be my favorite yet, just for the simplicity of it.

However, I’m dying to know how it works in YOUR kitchen! It seems like every oven does things a little differently, and I’m wondering if anyone will make these and find that they spread out a ton. So I’m going to turn on the comments for this post below, and I’d love for you guys to whip up a batch one of these days and let me know what kind of results you get. ????????????

One bowl, no mixer, no chill time, NO FUSS chocolate chip cookies. This recipe calls for melted butter, so all you need is a sturdy spoon and a bowl for fresh cookies right out the oven in under 15 minutes!

Speaking of favorite recipes… a lot of you have been emailing me wanting to know what the updated favorites are in my quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. So here are my latest Top 5:

  1. Today’s Quick & Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies (I can’t help it, I’m so lazy that to me these are just too perfect!)
  2. Chewy Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies
  3. KAF Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
  4. DoubleTree Hotel Chocolate Chip Cookies
  5. KAF Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies Recipe

Ultra-chewy simple oatmeal cookie recipe loaded with chocolate chips and butterscotch chips. Quick and easy cookies!

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

Those that know me well know that I am ALL ABOUT a good chocolate chip cookie. And I’m frequently asked which is my favorite recipe.

It’s like having to choose a favorite child! I really can’t do it. There are several that I love for different reasons. The same cookie doesn’t always work for every mood, season, and occasion. Just like a good pair of shoes, you have to find a cookie that goes just right with what’s going on in your life.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

For example… I love these Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies a lot right now, because I can make them dairy free if I use DF chocolate chips. These are probably my favorite standard, basic chocolate chip cookie recipe. But that recipe calls for shortening. If I’m in the mood for an all butter recipe, I’ll make this one.

More often than not this year, I’ve been in the mood for a good, hearty oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. This one is my favorite oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. The 1 1/2 cups of chopped walnuts in that one make it SUPER chunky and amazing for a texture lover like me. But I don’t always have walnuts on hand, and I don’t always feel like putting in the work that recipe takes. So my go-to basic oatmeal chocolate chip recipe is this one. And it’s best made with M&Ms or Reese’s Pieces 🙂

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

This recipe is a variation of that last one. It’s simple, straight forward, and holds up to a wide variety of mix-ins.

At first, I thought I was going to make these into Oatmeal Scotchies. I’m obsessed with butterscotch, and it feels like such a cozy, Fall flavor. But then I realized that I just couldn’t leave out the chocolate.

So in went the chocolate chips 🙂

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Scotchies

I hope you love this recipe for Oatmeal Scotchies! And if you want to change it up a little bit, here are some other fun mix-ins you could use instead of chocolate chips that would pair really well with butterscotch:

  • Reese’s Pieces or M&Ms
  • Peanut Butter Chips (mmmm, PB + Butterscotch = bliss)
  • Pretzels (or chocolate covered pretzels!)
  • Butterscotch pudding mix
  • Walnuts
  • Caramel filled chocolate candy (like Rolos or Ghirardelli squares)

Be creative! And be sure to tag me @somethingswanky on Instagram if you make these. Let me know what you added in 🙂

Browned Butter gives these chewy chocolate chip cookies a rich toffee flavor. Delicious!

America’s Test Kitchen Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Browned Butter gives these chewy chocolate chip cookies a rich toffee flavor. Delicious!

With the craziness of the holiday season, I definitely dropped the ball on The Chocolate Chip Cookie Experiment for a few weeks. But you can dry your tears, I’m back to the grind and bringing you another famous chocolate chip cookie recipe today!

Just a reminder– I’m attempting to find 52 different chocolate chips cookie recipes (theoretically, a year’s worth of recipes if I did one per week) and test them all out to find either the best chocolate chip cookie recipe already in existence, OR to use this experience to take the things I learned and loved about each of my favorite recipes and turn them into one super cookie!

Browned Butter gives these chewy chocolate chip cookies a rich toffee flavor. Delicious!

Today’s test subject: American’s Test  Kitchen Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Basically, the unique thing about these cookies is the use of browned butter. Browning the butter creates a deep, toffee-like flavor that I really liked and definitely sets these apart from other CC cookies I’ve tried.