Potbelly’s Copycat Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Potbelly's copycat oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are as good (if not better) than the ones you can buy at Potbelly's! They are super tasty and quite beautiful too!
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, softened
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup plus 1 Tbsp flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats divided
- 1 ⅓ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips divided, see note below
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° F. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and sugar until light and fluffy with a mixer.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Combine the baking soda, salt, and flour in a bowl. Add the flour mixture to wet ingredients and mix just until combined.
- With a food processor or mini food chopper, pulse ¾ cup oats until the oats have been broken up and begin to appear as a coarse flour. The other ¼ cup oats should be left as-is. Add all of the oats and 1 cup chocolate chips to the dough mix until combined. The dough will be thick.
- Scoop cookie dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for approximately 8-10 minutes for small cookies or 12-14 minutes for large cookies. The cookies should still be very soft. Err on the side of underbaking these cookies rather than overbaking.
Notes
For extra visual appeal, carefully pull the cookies out of the oven when they still have a couple minutes of bake time remaining. Using the remaining ⅓ cup chocolate chips, carefully place them individually over the tops of the cookies and press lightly. Work carefully but quickly and return to the oven to finish baking. The chocolate chips on top of the cookies look really nice and is worth the effort!