I don’t know about you, but I ABSOULTY LOVE a cookie recipe that can double as a breakfast recipe! Oatmeal, eggs, dried fruit, what more do you need to start the day? Tea maybe? 😉
I tried out this new recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies yesterday and not only did I fall in love these, but as they were cooling on the rack the HH swooped in and gobbled up three cookies in a row, and then proceeded to tell me how good they were at least a half a dozen times… so you know they’ve got to be good.
Quick and easy to make, these oatmeal chocolate chip fig cookies make a great snack or an easy meal on the go.
Ingredients
1/2 cup {1 stick} plus 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda {15 Cool Uses for Baking Soda}
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 1/2 cups quick or old-fashioned oats
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup dried figs, chopped {about 10 dried figs}
Directions
Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add combined flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Add oats, chocolate chips and dried figs; mix well.
Drop dough by 2 tablespoon cookie scoops onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
Bake 10 -12 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire rack. Cool completely. Store in a tightly covered container.
Katy says
Did you know that most (but not all) figs have wasp eggs in them. I can’t eat them anymore – skeeves me out!
Elizabeth C Smith says
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/fig-wasp2.htm
Yes but they are supposed to be there to help pollinate and they break down! Don’t give up on the fig!
Mavis Butterfield says
Extra protein. 🙂
Michelle Barham says
Lol! Exactly my response!
Linda says
I wished I’d never read that comment!!! Ignorance really is bliss sometimes!Ha!!!!
Chocolate chip cookies with figs sounds interesting Mavis! Thanks for the recipe!
Ynot says
Leaves more for me
jj says
Sounds like a cookie I would love
Nancy E. says
With or without the wasp eggs???
Diana Love says
Could I substitute dates for figs?
Mavis Butterfield says
Yes! 🙂
Vivian says
So where does a person get figs? I have not seen them in stores.
Rita says
Check where the raisins and prunes are. They are usually in a resealable bag.
Chani says
Can I use oil instead of butter?
Rebecca says
Great looking recipe…trying to ignore the wasp comment. We have a fig trees, but this summer I really had to fight the birds and squirrels for them! Does anyone have any advice on that?
I will have to make these then guard mine next year to dry some too!
Carole says
Mine turned out nothing like yours. A couple questions. I followed the recipe exactly. Did you rest the dough or chill it before baking? You said quick or old fashioned oats. What did you use?
Mavis Butterfield says
Hi Carole,
I used old fashioned oats and I did not chill the dough. I have found over the years that the temperature of butter and how people measure their flour play a big part in how cookies turn out.
You could ask 5 people to put 1 ½ cups of flour into a bowl and the amount of flour would all be different as people sift, pack, tamp or level their flour as they put it into a measuring cup.