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Salted Chocolate Chunk Cookies are a sweet and salty simple treat. Perfect for tucking into your work lunchbox and for summertime treats around the pool too.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to rekindle my relationship with Rachael Ray. And by relationship, I mean watching her daytime talk show on NBC. Although I’m not much of a TV watcher, I’ve always enjoyed watching cooking shows – especially Rachael’s. She’s definitely a talker, but I adore her relatable personality and easy to follow recipes.
Since I loathe watching live TV almost as much I loathe cleaning toilets, I DVR the show and watch it while I’m baking or cooking dinner. I’ve been reminded that Rachael is, at her core, passionate about food – and that kind of passion makes you want to get into the kitchen and whip up something.
If you’ve ever tuned into one of her shows, you’re probably aware of the fact that she’s not much of a baker. So when she was raving about Grant’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, I had to print the recipe up immediately. First of all, I love anything sweet that is also salty, but ground oatmeal in the recipe also piqued my interest. I imagined the addition of ground oatmeal could create one heck of a cookie and texture, and that it did. The additional sprinkling of salt makes them absolutely exceptional.
Typically I bake very early in the morning before everyone is awake, or while Elle is taking her afternoon nap. But when I made these cookies, she was in the kitchen helping me every step of the way. From whisking together the dry ingredients and cracking eggs, to scooping out balls of dough – my little babe was so incredibly involved throughout the entire process.
If you follow me on Instagram, you may remember seeing a photo my little cutie pouring flour into a bowl. She’s been walking around the house with her own mixing bowls and whisk, creating imaginary cookie dough to feed Elmo and Cookie Monster ever since – which is pretty stinkin’ cute!
This recipe will forever bring back those memories for me, which makes it even sweeter. But aside from all that, this is a really good cookie. The kind of cookie you imagine when you’ve got a hankering for one.
Try my method for how to freeze cookie dough with this recipe and you’ll even be able to bake them up any time!
Make them right now – and DVR Rachael for later! Trust me – you’ll enjoy that perky cook.
Looking for more chocolate chip cookie recipes? Be sure to try these Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies and these Chocolate Chip Graham Cracker Cookies! Chocolate chip cookies for the win!
Salted Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups old-fashioned oats
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 ¼ cups 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 ½ cups packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a food processor, pulse the oats until they become the texture of coarse flour.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat the butter on medium speed for one minute. Add in the sugars and continue mixing for an additional 5-6 minutes. Mixture will become light and fluffy.
- Reduce speed to low and add in eggs; mixing until combined. Add in vanilla and beat on medium speed for an additional minute. Reduce speed to low and gradually add in the dry ingredients until they are fully incorporated. Turn the speed back up to medium and mix for 1-2 minutes. Use a wooded spoon to stir in chocolate chunks.
- Use a medium cookie scoop (about 1 1/2 tablespoons) to scoop dough onto prepared baking sheets. Bake in preheated oven for 12-14 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove cookies from oven and place pan on a cooking rack. Sprinkle each cookie with a bit of sea salt and allow cookies to cool completely.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
In my opinion, there is not too many sweats that can beat the flavor of a chocolate chip cookie. The fact that this recipe has both salt and an oat combination together has really peaked my interested. Plus I am curious what adding 2 teaspoons of vanilla, and only adding brown sugar will do to the overall taste profile. Thank you for posting this unique recipe. Can’t wait to try these out.
Hi. This recipe says ‘beat the sugars’ …..was there suppose to be white sugar as well as brown sugar?
Hello, I have adjusted the recipe to add the 1 cup of granulated sugar to the ingredient list. It should be showing within the recipe under the brown sugar. That was an error on my part. Thanks!
-Jamie
They look great! I was just wondering if you used fine or coarse sea salt. I can see coarse for the sprinkle on top at the end, but for the salt mixed with the flour? Thanks!
Sharon-
I used fine sea salt for the dry ingredient mixture. Thanks so much!
-Jamie
Hi Jamie, This recipe looks so good, I really wanted to save it in “Pepperplate” to make later. Unfortunately the CoverGirl pop-up at the bottom makes it impossible to save it to Pepperplate. (It just keeps on opening up the complete Covergirl ad. Usually I can copy and paste it from the copy screen. (if there is some problem auto-saving it.) But, for some reason the copy screen cannot be copied from. I guess my only choice is to print it. Thank you for the recipe! Mary Beth
Mary Beth-
Thanks for the feedback. Were you unable to close the ad? Also, can you tell which browser you are using? Thanks so much!
-Jamie
Looks like you left out the white sugar. It is in the recipe on Rachel Ray’s site. Instruction #4 says to add sugars (plural), however you only have brown sugar listed.
Thanks so much for catching that error. We just underwent a redesign, so I think that ingredient was lost when I transferred it over to the new format. Again, I appreciate you bringing it to my attention.
-Jamie
These sound amazing Jamie, I love a good chocolate chunk cookie recipe and this sounds incredible. I love that they’re salted!! :)
Thank you! Can’t wait to make these later today. I have all the ingredients on hand!
Hi Jamie, The recipe is wonderful and the cookies are mouth watering :-)
Priya-
Thanks so much for visiting!
-Jamie
These look spectacularly delicious!
Tori-
I’m so glad you stopped by!
-Jamie
these look delish!!! can’t wait to try them at home :) I bet with some nana ice cream on top they taste even better!!
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Anna-
I hope you do get the chance to try these. Thanks for visiting.
-Jamie