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Mrs. Fields Cookies (revisited)

Mrs. Fields Cookies // take a megabite

When it comes to the weekend I require big breakfasts, naps galore, and freshly baked cookies. So to ensure the cookie part of my weekend, I whipped up this dough Friday after work and popped it in the fridge for casual Saturday baking. Feel free to do the same to bake at your leisure!

And these cookies are by far one of my very favorites. There is plenty of ground oatmeal in each bite, giving them a delectable texture, along with two kinds of chocolate, and a sprinkling of salt on top, you can’t go wrong.

Mrs. Fields Cookies // take a megabite

Mrs. Fields Cookies – revisited (makes 28 cookies)
Recipe from my Mrs. Fields and my mom

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter (2 sticks), room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 1/2 cups oatmeal, coarsely ground in a blender or food processor
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1 t baking powder
  • 1 t baking soda
  • 12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
  • 4 oz. grated milk chocolate
  • sea salt or fleur de sel for topping

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 375F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer beat the butter and the sugars together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. Beat until combined.
  3. In another medium bowl whisk together the flour, ground oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Beat into the sugar and egg mixture until all mixed together. With a wooden spoon, and using some muscle,  stir the chocolate chips and grated chocolate into the dough. Using an ice cream scoop, or scant 1/4 cup measuring cup, scoop the dough out of the bowl. Roll into a ball in your palms. Flatten slightly and place on the prepared baking sheets a couple inches apart. Sprinkle with additional salt.
  4. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden on top and set. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Yay! Click HERE for a printable pdf of the recipe above.

Mrs. Fields Cookie Process // take a megabite

This dough grew up to be cookies.

25 thoughts on “Mrs. Fields Cookies (revisited)”

  1. Great minds! I made some oaty chocoaltey cookies this weekend too! And leisure baking is the best. I haven’t experimented with ground up oatmeal in cookies but imagine it’s real dang good!!

  2. Yum! Oatmeal chocolate chip is my fave, so I’ve got to try these! One questions- by oatmeal, you mean unprepared oats, right? And are we talking quick-cooking oats, or old fashioned/rolled oats?

  3. If I don’t get a big weekend breakfast, I consider that weekend to be a complete failure. I do a lot of cookie baking, too – it seems that I am in good company. I have been meaning to make these myself – I bet the oatmeal makes them so delicious and chewy.

  4. Yes! These are my go-to choco chip cookies. Isn’t it funny how our parents had to search for this recipe (the “real” Mrs. Fields recipe) and now we can just google it. Ahh, the wonders of the internet.

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