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Oatmeal-Chocolate Morsel Cookies

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Submitted by scottishsg

Oatmeal-chocolate morsel cookies built on a yellow cake mix base, loaded with rolled oats, raisins, semisweet chocolate, and pecans. A 22-minute, no-fuss cookie that hides the cake mix behind the loaded mix-ins.

YIELD

48 servings

PREP

10 min

COOK

12 min

READY

22 min

This is a doctored cake-mix cookie recipe, the kind that lives on the back of recipe boxes for emergencies and after-school baking. A box of yellow cake mix with pudding does the heavy lifting on flour, leavening, and sugar, leaving you to dump in oats and mix-ins until the dough is thick with everything good.

The chocolate-pudding-style cake mix is what gives these cookies their distinctive softness. The pudding mix in the package keeps the dough moist and the finished cookies tender for days, where a plain cake mix would dry out by day two.

Three cups of mix-ins (oats, raisins, chocolate morsels, and pecans, one cup each) is a serious load. The cookies bake up rough and chunky rather than smooth, which is exactly the appeal. Every bite has at least three different textures.

A third cup of vegetable oil keeps things in cookie territory rather than cakey. Don’t substitute butter; the oil is what gives these cookies their distinctively soft, slightly chewy bite.

Pro Tips

  • Toast the chopped pecans for 5 minutes in a dry pan before adding for a deeper, nuttier flavor.
  • Drop dough in rounded spoonfuls, not flattened. The cookies don’t spread much on their own.
  • Bake at 350°F (180°C) for about 10 to 12 minutes. Pull when edges are set but centers still look slightly underdone for soft cookies.
  • Cool 2 minutes on the sheet before transferring. Hot cookies tear.

Variations

  • Use a chocolate or spice cake mix instead of yellow for a different background flavor.
  • Swap raisins for dried cranberries or chopped dried apricots for a fruitier version.
  • Add ½ teaspoon cinnamon to the dough for warmer flavor that plays against the chocolate chips.

Ingredients

1 1
PACKAGE PACKAGE CAKE MIX, YELLOW
with pudding
1 237
CUP ML ROLLED OAT
regular uncooked
1 237
1 237
CUP ML SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE
morsels, null, null *
1 237
CUP ML PECANS
chopped
79
CUP ML VEGETABLE OIL
½ 2.5
TEASPOON ML VANILLA EXTRACT
3 3
LARGE LARGE EGGS
large, lightly beaten

Directions

Combine all ingredients, stir well.

Drop dough by rounded spoonful 2 inchs apart onto a lightly greased cookie baking sheet.

Bake at 350℉ (180℃).

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 24g (0.8 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 1229 44% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 60g 92%
Saturated Fat 8g 40%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 161mg 54%
Sodium 918mg 38%
Total Carbohydrate 54g 54%
Dietary Fiber 10g 38%
Sugars g
Protein 41g
Vitamin A 4% Vitamin C 2%
Calcium 26% Iron 33%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
Trans-fat Free, High Fiber
 

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