Healthy Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Cookies
on Mar 07, 2016, Updated Jan 21, 2025
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Healthy Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Cookies are made with honey and whole wheat flour, delivering cookies that are thick, soft, and just sweet enough to satisfy your sweet tooth! These really are a healthier version of the traditional cookies and worth adding to your cookie rotation.
I’ve been working on all kinds of recipes of your favorite treats that feature whole grain flour (whole wheat and/or oats) and natural sweeteners (honey or real maple syrup). First up is this recipe for delicious chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies with honey and whole wheat flour.
These cookies are thick, soft, and just sweet enough. They don’t taste too strongly of honey, have a smidge of peanut butter, and chocolate chips make everything better don’t they?!
These cookies aren’t low in calories, they still have some sugar — high quality dark chocolate chips and honey. They do have whole grains, more fiber, and coconut oil instead of butter, all of which I consider a bit healthier than the average cookie ingredients.
I know the ingredients in these cookies, which you can’t say about every treat that makes it into your kids hands (I’m looking at you Otter pops and fruit snacks). These are still a treat and you should approach them as such, but also applaud yourself for going with a healthier version of a traditional classic!
Table of Contents
Why You’ll Love These Healthy Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Cookies
- Healthier Ingredients: This recipe offers a healthier twist on traditional chocolate chip cookies, while still tasting indulgent.
- Perfect Texture: These cookies are thick, soft, and chewy, just the way I think chocolate chip-oatmeal cookies should be!
- Quick and Simple: With just 27 minutes total from prep to bake, this is a fast, family-friendly recipe that doesn’t require much time or effort.
- Guest Worthy: While I like making these cookies for my family at home, I’ve also had lots of approval when taking them to events — they always disappear quickly!
🍪 We love making cookies at our house so every once in a while I try to work in a healthier but still delicious cookie recipe!
Recipe Ingredients
- Old-Fashioned Oats
- Whole Wheat Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Cornstarch
- Honey
- Peanut Butter
- Egg
- Coconut Oil
- Vanilla
- Chocolate Chips
See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities
How to Make Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Step 1: Preheat the oven and line a baking sheet with parchment.
Step 2: In a medium bowl, combine oats, flour, baking powder, cornstarch, and salt. Add the honey, peanut butter, egg, coconut oil, and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips.
Step 3: Make a ball with 2 large tablespoons of dough in your hands then lightly flatten the dough and place it on the baking sheet.
Step 4: Bake cookies until light brown. Remove from oven, let cool for 5 minutes, then move to a wire rack.
Recipe FAQs
If the dough is really sticky right after you stir it all together, let it rest for 5 minutes. The whole wheat flour will absorb some of the extra moisture.
When frozen properly, most cookies can be kept in the freezer for up to three months. Mine usually don’t last that long!
Yes! You can use substitute nut butters in place of peanut butter in this recipe.
Expert Tips
- Don’t Overbake: Be careful not to overbake the cookies. You want them to be just done so they stay nice and soft.
- Make It Pretty: Save some of the chocolate chips to press into the top. They look so nice that way.
- Coconut Oil Tip: If you don’t care for the taste of coconut, opt for a refined coconut oil. They do not smell or taste like coconut.
Favorite Oatmeal & Chocolate Chip Cookies
As you can see from the sheer number of recipes, I really like making cookies with oats and chocolate chips! Here are some of my family’s most requested recipes.
- Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Zucchini Cookies made with whole wheat flour, oats, chocolate chips, pecans, and shredded zucchini — doesn’t that just sound like a winning combination?
- A twist on classic oatmeal cookies, these peanut butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies will appease any sweet tooth. These cookies are soft, chewy, and full of chocolatey goodness in every bite!
- Our favorite recipe for homemade soft and chewy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies is made with butter, old-fashioned rolled oats, and lots of chocolate chips! Such an easy cookie with a classic traditional oatmeal-chocolate taste.
More Oatmeal Cookie Recipes to Consider
Cookies
Banana Oatmeal Cookies
Oatmeal Cookies
Old Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies
Oatmeal Cookies
Amazing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
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Healthy Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 4 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup chocolate chips,, plus more for placing on top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325° and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a baking mat.
- In a medium bowl add the oats, whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, and cornstarch. Stir to combine. Add the honey, peanut butter, egg, coconut oil, and vanilla. Stir until well combined. Add the chocolate chips and stir to combine.
- Make a ball with 2 large tablespoons of dough in your hands then lightly flatten the dough and place it on the baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
- Bake cookies for 12 to 14 minutes until the cookies are light brown and not soft in the center. Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Notes: This recipe makes 9 large cookies or 12 average-sized cookies. If you make 12 cookies, bake 10-12 minutes.
Notes
- You don’t taste the peanut butter much, it just helps to make the cookies not taste too “honey-y”. You can use other nut butters in place of peanut butter in this recipe.
- If the dough is really sticky right after you stir it all together, let it rest for 5 minutes. The whole wheat flour will absorb some of the extra moisture.
- Press some extra chocolate chips into the top of the cookies to make them look extra chocolatey.
- Opt for refined coconut oil if you don’t care for the taste of coconut.
Amazing!
Melissa, Thank you so much for making healthier recipes with low sugar. I’m a diabetic and looking for some good great-tasting dessert recipes and they are hard to find. A lot of them use ingredients that normal cooks don’t keep in their cupboards. I like your recipes, I haven’t made any of them yet but I’m looking forward to doing so because I can tell that your recipes don’t turn out rubbery. That’s the problem I’ve had with a lot of other ones. People really do need to cut down on the amount of sugar they use in recipes. I’ve found out that you can cut out about half what a recipe says and it doesn’t turn out awful. Again, thank you so very much.
You are so welcome! I have a great low sugar pumpkin bread recipe on my site too if you are looking for one!
Hi Melissa,
Thank you so much for your chocolate chips recipe. I am making it right now and realized that you missed the baking powder in the instructions until I was about to add the chocolate chips. Are we supposed to add it in with the dry ingredients? I added it after and I hope they turn out.
I couldn’t even make a ball with my hands because I substitited the peanut butter for almond butter and they seemed runnier.
Looking forward to tasting them. Thanks again! 🙂
They should have came out fine, even adding it at the end. Thank you for mentioning that I have corrected the recipe!
These cookies are delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Wow! These cookies are gorgeous! I love the healthier swaps! I’ll have to make a similar version soon 🙂
My kids love fruitsicles…not made from juice or smoothie but actual chunks of fruit, frozen. I froze a bunch of grapes (separated and washed, of course) this weekend and they didn’t even make it to the freezer bag, my kids devoured them. I’m sure that’s not anything new, but it is so easy and so refreshing on a hot day, and my kids don’t ask for popsicles when there are grapesicles, plumsicles, pineapple-sicles, etc around.