The best way to use leftover candy? In these oatmeal chocolate chip candy cookies! Soft and chewy, these oatmeal cookies are packed with chocolately goodness.
Some of you might have some leftover candy from a certain holiday that just happened?
Halloween!
Let’s talk about that for a second. So last year when I made these trashed up shortbread bars I told you about trick-or-treating in my neighborhood. It’s kind of next level, tons of kids come and we go through lots and lots of candy, but that’s nothing compared to when my husband and I stop by my in-laws and are presented with bags of candy (including some big bars-remember how those were coveted when trick or treating years ago?)
The reason we go to my in-laws the eve of Halloween is because for the past few years my husband and I have gone to his friends’ house in Madison (a little over an hour away from us here in Milwaukee) for their Halloween party and my mother-in-law (they live 5 minutes away) likes to see our costumes before we go (it’s all very cute and Nicks sister and her husband come too). For the past few years this is what we’ve gone as:
From left to right: German couple, coloring book and crayon, cheese head (from the state farm commercial) and mouse, barista and frappachino (this one was hilarious, I was actually a ‘name fail’ because of all the funny name fails I got last year and my hubby went around with stickers and was giving everyone name fails) and this year we went as pumpkin and the math symbol Pi…get it? pumpkin pie?)
Do you get into Halloween and dress up?
Back to the cookies, these are super duper delicious and full of chocolate and candy, all nestled in an oatmeal cookie. You simply make the oatmeal cookie batter and then add in the chocolate chips and candy pieces, then bake and enjoy.
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2 sticks butter, unsalted, at room temperature
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 3 SNICKERS candy bars chopped
- 10 snack size Heath candy bars about 1/2 cup pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350, line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats and set aside.
- In a large bowl with a hand mixer or a sand mixer cream together the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula, then add in the vanilla extract and beat until combined, scrape down the sides again.
- Now mix in the dry ingredients - baking soda, baking powder, salt, oats and flour and mix until incorporated.
- Next you're going to chop up the candy, you can do so by pulsating it for 5-10 seconds in a food processor or chop up the SNICKERS and Heath bars with a knife, just make sure that the candy is in small pieces, no bigger than the chocolate chips.
- Add the candy pieces and chocolate chips to the cookie batter and stir with a wooden spoon until incorporated.
- With a cookie scoop or a tablespoon form balls of cookie dough and place 2 inches apart on a baking sheet. Repeat until cookie sheet is full and then slightly press down on the cookie balls.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until the cookie edges start to brown. Remove from oven, let rest for 10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool.
- Repeat making dough balls and baking until all the batter is used, then enjoy!
Karen @ Seasonal Cravings says
Aw love your Halloween photos. Any excuse to use up my Halloween candy is appreciated. These cookies look super yum!
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much, we are total dorks for Halloween, but it’s always fun 🙂 And these cookies are definitely delicious 🙂
Rachel @ Bakerita says
These are some super cookies! Definitely a delicious way to use leftover Halloween candy 🙂
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much 🙂
danicaliforniacooks says
Oatmeal cookies are my absolute favorite. Love the halloween candy twist on these!!
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much, adding the chocolate pieces in the cookies keeps me from eating them all lol, at least this way there’s a hope I’ll share 🙂
cheri says
You guys are the cutest!! such a smart idea for cookies.
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much Cheri 🙂
sparklie24 says
this looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much lovely lady, these cookies are great for using leftover candy (or candy that just so happens to make its way into your shopping cart 😉 )
Jess @ What Jessica Baked Next says
Delicious recipe for using up all your leftover halloween sweets! These cookies look delicious, Phi!
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much Jess, I definitely love mixing leftover Halloween chocolate into cookies, it’s a great way to use up the candy and have baked goods to share 🙂
Shawnna says
oh yummy for my tummy!
Sweetphi says
Thanks so much girl 😉 What’s better than cookies with candy, right?
Little Cooking Tips says
It must be a bake-off season:) Your cookies are a WONDERFUL idea to use leftover candy. Countless variation can be made with this recipe, what an excellent idea dear Phi!
We don’t celebrate Halloween here (even though in the last couple of years some clubs/restaurants do have a Halloween theme, influenced by US TV series/movies), but we do have Apokries, which coincides with the Brazilian dress-up of the Carnival. It’s a remnant of the Dionysus festivities we used to have here in the ancient times. But it’s mostly a celebration for kids, as we imagine is also the case in the States.
You guys look adorable together in the photos!:) You must’ve had so much fun!
Thank you for another yummy idea!
xoxoxo
Sweetphi says
Thank you so much for your comment, and you are so right, fall is baking season, and there are countless variations that can be made with this recipe – any chocolate you have would work great in this recipe! And I’m going to look up Apokries, sounds like a fun celebration!!
steworastory says
You guys are so cute! We only had 5 trick or treaters this year, which left lots of Halloween candy around here…….I’ve been thinking of using it up in a recipe, and these cookies are perfect! The addition of oatmeal totally makes them healthy, right? 😉
Sweetphi says
Totally healthy 😉 you know, I was going to write something about that since they had oatmeal, they were healthier lol! Only 5 trick or treaters? I must say I’m a little jealous, here we get hundreds, and while it’s super cute and all…it’s constant door bell for 4 hours, but I can’t complain too much, this year my hubby totally helped out instead of leaving me to fend for myself and hand out all the candy. I’m lucky we get extra candy from my inlaws because I don’t know how much ‘leftover’ candy there would have been, and these cookies just HAVE to be made, right?
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says
leftover chocolate? What’s that? That’s like saying leftover wine 😉
Haha, just joking. This looks like a great way to use up leftover chocolate if you have some.
Sweetphi says
Hahahahah right? I totally laughed at your leftover chocolate? question! Since we don’t have any kids yet and it’s just my hubby and I, I’m saving myself from just eating ALL the chocolate so I make them into baked goods and give them away, right? At least that’s the plan…if you need me I’ll be over here enjoying these amazing cookies 🙂