Is it worth heating up the kitchen on a hot summer afternoon to have homemade cookies for an evening picnic? I think so! Especially we’re making these Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pecan Cookies!
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Pecan Cookies
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, cream 2 sticks of softened butter with 3/4 cup brown sugar and 3/4 cup granulated sugar. Add 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon real vanilla extract and stir until well combined.
In a separate bowl, mix together 2 1/4 cups flour with 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp salt. Add the dry mixture to the butter/sugar/eggs/vanilla and beat until they are well combined. Fold in 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips, 1 cup oatmeal and 1/2 cup pecan pieces.
Drop in rounded spoonfuls on an un-greased cookie sheet. Bake for 9 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and loosen each cookie with a spatula. Let them cool, or eat them gooey and hot!
Makes 4 – 5 dozen.
The Farmer loves to eat the cookie dough from the bowl before I have a chance to bake the cookies. I usually bake two dozen at a time, so we can serve them when they’re fresh from the oven. Sometimes the cookie dough disappears! Does anyone else have this problem?

June 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm
Might be fun with white chocolate shards – I am partial to white chocolate…
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June 28, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Let’s try them out!
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June 28, 2013 at 9:41 pm
Oh, Mimi… these look fabulous!! My oven has been on the fritz for a few months and I’m craving cookies!!
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June 28, 2013 at 11:54 pm
My oven quit working while we had a house full of company, but I tried it again a few days later and it worked! Miraculous recovery!
July 1, 2013 at 8:14 am
It’s never to hot to whip up a batch of chocolate chip cookies! YUMMO!
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October 14, 2013 at 2:00 pm
These look delicious! I love pecans in cookies 🙂
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