These Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies are deliciously soft and scrumptious. They will quickly become a cookie jar favorite.
I was never really a butterscotch fan that was until I met my husband, who literally love butterscotch chips more than chocolate chips. Now let me clarify I DO NOT like butterscotch more than chocolate, but it has become a nice change up in our favorite cookie recipe every once in a while.
This past week I was laid up really sick, so my hubby was in charge of most of our meals and snacks. Of course, that meant we went out to eat more than normal, making an appearance at our family favorite restaurant Carrabba’s. Sunday evenings we always have dessert after dinner, so the past two weeks my husband had that duty. The first week he made cookies. He loves butterscotch chips, like obsessed. So he is always telling me that I need to make butterscotch cookies but I haven’t yet because the rest of us love chocolate chips so much.
He pulled up my Best Ever Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies and revised the recipe to make Butterscotch Chip Cookies. OH. MY. GOODNESS. These cookies did not turn out at all! He not only substituted the chocolate chips for butterscotch chips but margarine for butter… That is where he went all wrong. These cookies… well here is a picture to let you know how they turned out.
It’s funny how many comments bloggers get from readers who say “I made this recipe and changed this and that and it didn’t turn out – can you tell me why?” – well it’s because you changed it. Luckily my husband realized his mistake when they took the cookies out of the oven. LOL. And he realized that butterscotch chips are uber sweet and powerful and need balance. So I told him once I was better I would show him how to make a delicious butterscotch cookie.
I used my Best Ever Monster Cookies recipe – and just changed out the M&M’s for butterscotch chips and they turned out to be cookie perfection. So now that we have made these, my kids are loving butterscotch chips too – my hubby has started something. They are excited to try butterscotch chips in other things as well now too. I can’t wait to whip up a batch of Butterscotch Banana Muffins – I love the combination of banana and butterscotch.
With teacher appreciation week coming up – I plan on making these cute little jars with Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookie Mix in them, making a perfect gift for all those hard-working teachers. While I do like butterscotch, I love oatmeal more. So while we will still make these, I think I will be alternating them with Old Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies and The Best Gluten-Free Oatmeal Cookies (as we think Jersey our daughter might have a sensitivity to gluten).
Grab a glass of milk and get ready to devour 1, 2 or 5 of these Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies. Enjoy! XOXO San
How to make Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies?
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large mixing bowl beat together butter and peanut butter until well combined. Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Beat in eggs.
Add honey and baking soda and mix in. Stir in oats and butterscotch chips.
Use a cookie dough scooper to put on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 minutes.
Do not over bake.
These cookies are flat and chewy – take them out at 12 minutes, cool on the pan for a few minutes then remove from pan and enjoy!
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Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 4 1/2 cups rolled oats
- 11.4 ounce bag butterscotch chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In a large mixing bowl beat together butter and peanut butter until well combined. Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, and vanilla and beat until smooth.
- Beat in eggs.
- Add honey and baking soda and mix in. Stir in oats and butterscotch chips.
- Use a cookie dough scooper to put on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 minutes.
- Do not over bake.
- These cookies are flat and chewy - take them out at 12 minutes, cool on the pan for a few minutes then remove from pan and enjoy!
In ingredients you say to use baking soda and in directions you say baking powder…
It is baking soda. 🙂
Add the butter when you combine the rest of the wet ingredients together.
Hi, I just made the cookies, they did not set sold at 12 minutes. I am a novice baker and not sure what to do. Do I place them back in the oven and cook for a few more minutes? Oh no! I used baking soda and not baking powder. Does that matter?
Oh no. Yes it matters. Did you bake all of the batter already?
Baking soda is right. Email me a picture and I’ll help you out.
Love, love, love this cookie recipe. The combination of a peanut butter cookie + sweet butterscotch chips makes a flavorful cookie. Give it a try!
Thank you so much!
Combines two of my favorite ingredients oatmeal and butterscotch…reminds me of a cookie my grandma used to make! Thanks for recipe!
I’m so glad you enjoy it!
These cookies couldn’t look any more perfect! I need to put these on my baking list!
Definitely worth trying, enjoy!
Best flavor combo ever! And I love the texture from the oats. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad you like them, thank you for reading!
You read my mind! I thought about making these for my kid’s teacher too! They sound great!
Let us know what you think!
They look so delicious! Need to make a batch of these, definitely a huge hit in our house!
Thanks, let us know what you think!
I made these and they are delicious! I had chocolate, coconut peanut butter (wild friends) so I used it! I also added some chopped peanuts! Wow these are our new favorite cookie! I did put them in the fridge for like 20 minutes before baking to help them set up and the 11 minutes is right on. Thank you! YUM!
this is perfect because I was looking to find if anybody else has tried this. I love my monster cookie recipe and thought oh butterscotch chips, no chocolate would sound awesome. I’m glad you’ve tried it and so now I’m a little braver to try it also. I also thought of taking the batter cutting it in half. using half with the butterscotch chips and making the other half extra peanut buttery and using Reese’s pieces instead of m&M’s to give it that extra peanut butter flavor.
It really is a great twist! I also love using peanut butter M&Ms in place of regular ones, but Reese’s pieces sound amazing too. I’ll have to give it a try, be sure to let us know how it turns out, thanks!
To Die For
Thank you!
These are so darn tasty, I will be making them again very soon!
I love that it’s chewy and has the right amount of sweetness! Perfect cookie recipe!
These Butterscotch Cookies would disappear in our house!
These cookies are perfect when you follow the directions!
Peanut butter cookies are my favorite! These are on my baking list!
These are our new favorite cookies! They are nice and chewy and the butterscotch chips are so delicious with the oatmeal.
These are calling my name! I love trying a new delicious cookie!
Yikes, I didn’t realize there was no flour – I hope they turn out! Following the recipe to a “T”
My worries about flour were unfounded – these are fantabulous! Thank you.
I ended up tweaking the recipe a bit. Did 2.5 cups flour and 2 cups oats. I did 3/4 cup granulated sugar because with adding honey it seemed sweet enough. I also added chocolate chips and cut back on butterscotch chips. They turned out fabulous!
Sounds like a great change up.