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Granola Chocolate Chip Cookies

Granola Chocolate Chip Cookies

Granola Chocolate Chip Cookies with Homemade Honey Granola Dried Cherries

Imagine, if you will, an oatmeal cookie (with chocolate chips, not raisins. What do you think I am, some sort of monster?)

Now imagine the oats used in that cookie have been coated in honey and tossed with nuts and seeds and coconut and toasted until, well, toasty. Those toasted oats and goodies are folded into a brown-sugar cookie dough along with dried cherries and chocolate (always chocolate) and a sprinkle of sea salt. Once baked, these mythical cookies come out of the oven equal parts crispy and chewy (no need to choose sides this time), with crisp, lacy edges (think florentine) and far more substance than your run of the mill chocolate chip cookie.

Now let’s stop imagining, and make that vision a reality.

This cookie recipe comes from our second cookbook, Breakfast for Dinner. It’s one of our all-time favorites, and I figured it was high time I shared it here with you.

Chewy Granola Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Basically, we’re swapping the oats in a classic Oatmeal cookie with toasted oat granola. It’s a little more complicated than that (all the extra ‘stuff’ in the granola affects the cookie in more ways than you’d think) but with a bit of tweaking these cookies are far more extraordinary than you’d think just by looking at them. Trust me.

You want to use a primarily oat-based granola recipe here, something without a lot of ‘extras’ like dried fruit, chocolate chunks, and clusters. Our go-to granola recipe is in the book, but it’s pretty similar to this granola recipe I shared way back when. This chocolate granola or even this gingerbread granola recipe would also be pretty darn fabulous here.

Crunchy and Chewy Granola Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Because of the varied nature of granola, these cookies are far from perfect. Depending on what granola you use your cookies might be flatter or puffier or chunkier. Even cookie to cookie will vary quite a bit; some might spread more than others, developing thin, caramelized edges that are delightfully crispy.

Granola Chocolate Chip Cookies

You know what I say? There’s granola in them there cookies and that makes them perfectly acceptable for breakfast. Breakfast cookies. I like the sound of that.

Granola Chocolate Chip Cookies

Granola Chocolate Chip Cookies

Everything you love about granola, rolled and baked into a salty sweet oatmeal cookie that’s equal parts crunchy and chewy.

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Ingredients:

  • 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 1/4 cups packed light brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 cups plain oat granola
  • 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks
  • 1/2 cup dried cherries, coarsely chopped if large

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda; set aside.
  3. In a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
  4. Add dry ingredients and mix until well incorporated. Stir in granola and oats, followed by chocolate chips and dried cherries.
  5. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto parchment lined baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches of space between them. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies are puffed and edges are lightly golden. Allow to cool for 5 minutes on baking sheets, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

Recipe from our book, Breakfast for Dinner.

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15 Comments

  1. These look amazingly delicious. I need to try this.

  2. Wow! just a mouthwatering recipe. By the way, thanks Lindsay for giving an idea on making basic granola.. me too has a same issue with ready made oats granola’s.

  3. This recipe looks great and must be healthy too.. I will try it for sure..

  4. Unfortunately i don’t find plain oat granola near my grocery store, What if i use regular oats? Surely it will taste different, but still want to make it.. ;)

    • I think it would work but yes, would be quite a different cookie. You could really quickly toss the oats with some honey/vanilla and toast them until golden, like a very very basic granola!

  5. These look great! (Saw a recent IG post about them & had to check it out) Can’t wait to try. I’ve made something very similar from Rose Levy Beranbaum’s “Baking Bible” cookbook. Such a yummy combo.

  6. Looks incredibly delicious! Can’t wait to dive into these, adding to my list of must makes!

  7. Wow, looking delicious. I love Chocolate Chips. I would try it for sure. thanks for sharing this nice article.

  8. The idea of using chocolate chunks instead of raisins is very creative. Thanks for sharing.

  9. Wow, looking delicious. I love Chocolate Chips. I would try it for sure. Great share.

  10. I loved the flavour, these look absolutely delicious!! Excellent cookies!!

  11. What a fun idea for cookies! Love those big chocolate chunks instead of raisins too ;)

  12. I just made them. My kids loved them
    Thanks a lot

  13. These cookies look amazing! I need them in my life!

  14. These cookies sound incredible. Your description has me craving them right this second!

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