Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
These flavorful Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies have the perfect chewy texture thanks to the oats and raisins. They’re perfectly soft and absolutely delicious!
Today, we’re talkin’ about one of my favorite subjects: peanut buttaaaahhh!!! And how peanut butter can make the most delicious Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!
I’m just so excited about peanut butter (as I usually am) and all the delicious flavors and these cookies. Because these Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, you guys, were awesome.
I have an odd, confusing confession: I obviously love peanut butter, but peanut butter cookies have never been my favorite. In fact, I pass them up in favor of most cookies, and usually won’t eat one when it’s offered to me. BUT, these cookies, I couldn’t stop eating whenever I was in the kitchen.
These Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are soft, and not too sweet. They have the perfect amount of bite from the oatmeal. The texture is nicely crisp on the outside, but not too far past cookie dough on the insides (!!!!). The raisins (if you’re into them) add a nice burst of sweetness and added chewy texture. And of course, put your hands together for the star of the show: Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Peanut Butter!!
Ugh, that peanut butter is simply magical. The kind folks over at Peanut Butter & Co. offered to send me a little PB care package a few months ago and of couuurse I wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity to try a whole bunch of delicious peanut butter (if you questioned that…you clearly don’t know me).
When I got the heavy box in the mail, having totally forgotten about it, I was in total peanut butter heaven. My housemates and I all sat down on the couch with apples and tasted all the different flavors, picking and choosing our favorites. Obviously, this Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Peanut Butter topped the list and I had to turn them into cookies! You’ll love this one – enjoy!
Cinnamon Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 12 to 16 cookies 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
These flavorful Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raisin Cookies have the perfect chewy texture thanks to the oats and raisins. They’re perfectly soft and absolutely delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 stick (½ cup) unsalted butter, softened
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup PB&Co. Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Peanut Butter or regular creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup raisins
Instructions
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in peanut butter and vanilla extract. Beat in the egg until well blended.
- Combine the oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add into the peanut butter mixture and beat until just combined.
- Fold in raisins. Chill cookie dough, covered, at least 2 hours and up to 1 week.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Form rounded tablespoons of dough into balls and arrange about 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
- Bake cookies in batches in middle of oven for 12 minutes, or until just pale golden. Cool cookies on baking sheet 5 minutes and transfer to racks to cool completely.
Oh my goodness, that looks so good!
I hope I get to try this recipe one day! I’ve literally been following you for forever, but I haven’t had the chance to try your recipes yet! I hope I will be able to during this holiday season when I have more time after university/college (which I know you know about!!).
Hope your school year is going good so far!
Oh, well I hope when you try a recipe that you love it!! :) I definitely know about being busy in college, haha. Hope your year is going good as well, thanks for stopping by Jeannie!
on a spoon :)
Call me old fashioned but my favorite way to use peanut butter is the old peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I like a nice hearty wheat bread and love to use the heel on one side!
I love apple slices and peanut butter! or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches….for breakfast!
Cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter?!?! How have I gone this long without such an obvious necessity?! These cookies look fabulous! So chewy and soft – just the way oatmeal raisin cookies should be! Love the addition of pb. Pinned!
such a great recipe!
I really enjoyed this post–both the writing and the photos!
ooh, these look so delicious! love, love, LOVE! i just have to try that peanut butter :)
I cannot wait to make these, they look amazing!
The cinnamon raisin peanut butter from them is amazing! I love that you used in it these cookies, such a great idea.
I love peanut butter on toast.
I looove peanut butter too! I don’t think I can be trusted around a jar of my favourite PB or oatmeal cookies for that matter :P
Right out of the jar or in cookies.
I totally love peanut butter, it can be added to so many things
I love peanut butter and I really like it on toast!
I love peanut butter on my Oreos!
Oh my! This looks amazing! I am a sucker for peanut butter, and I am a sucker for cinnamon. This looks like the perfect combination. I can’t wait to try this! Thanks, Rachel :)
I like peanut butter on apples.
Oh wow! This is so amazing.. cinnamon-rasin PB is such a uniqe and incredible flavour.. love it!!
These look amazing! It’s a peanut butter cookie makeover! My favorite way to eat peanut butter is off a spoon. :)
Ooh, I love their white chocolate flavored one! I think my favorite way to enjoy peanut butter probably is with some on top of a piece of homemade banana bread. Yum!
I love that cinnamon raisin PB so this cookie is a winner! Rachel, it looks delicious! ;-)
I love peanut butter best smothered on wheat toast with a sliced banana on top! And the classic apples and peanut butter!
I hope to try this recipe sometime! Delicious!
Love anything with cinnamon and these cookies looks fantastic! Can’t wait to make a batch of them.
I love peanut butter on sourdough toast with a drizzle of honey
my favorite way to enjoy pb is probably making cookies.
Love the cinnamon raisin combination, Rachel! These look like some delicious, home-made cookies!
The combination of the ingredients in this cookie sound amazing!
That is my all-time favorite peanut butter! These cookies look OUT OF THIS WORLD!
I love peanut butter cookies and peanut butter right out of the jar! These cookies look just like the cookies we made when I was younger. The bonus in these is the peanut butter! Yummy! I can’t wait to try them.
Cinnamon Raisin swirl PB! :)
Who doesn’t love peanut butter! Those are some amazing sounding peanut butter flavors!
My preferred way to eat peanut butter is as a sandwich. I also like it in cookie form.
I like to enjoy a warm grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
These oatmeal cookies do look delicious! My favourite way to enjoy peanut butter is slathered on cinnamon and raisin toast in the morning.. peanut butter on toast is the ultimate way to enjoy it!
I love it on fruit! And on yogurt — I know that might be weird :)
Off the spoon!
Oh my word – what a delicious looking cookie! I love oatmeal in cookies – so chewy and delicious! And with peanut butter – drool! Thanks for sharing!
Anisa.xx
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I don’t normally pick peanut butter cookies when give the choice either (despite being a PB fanatic) – however, I do LOVE oatmeal cookies and I can only imagine how delicious these cookies are!
I love to make peanut butter toast by toasting the bread and slathering on the PB while the bread is warm to melt the PB. It’s amazing. I haven’t tried this type of PB but I have used at least two kinds of the brand’s flavors in baking. The white chocolate one and the dark chocolate one. Both are great. I will have to find a jar of this and make these! I just made the pistachio and white chocolate one posted previously and shared those with several groups. I loved the way the dough worked to mold the cookies and how beautifully they were shaped when baked. Definitely a keeper recipe!! Thanks for what looks like another favorite in my collection!!
I don’t know why I haven’t tried that peanut butter flavor yet (besides it being a rare one in stores). Every time I’m low on fresh groceries, my breakfast is some combination of bread or cereal, raisins, cinnamon & pb!
I enjoy a good peanut butter and banana sandwich. Mmmm!
favorite way to eat pb? on top of a homemade bread. and in cookies isn’t too bad either.
These cookies look amazing girl! Love the cinnamon and raisin peanut butter flavor – that’s my favorite too! And in an oatmeal cookie? They sound even better! Pinned :)
I had never thought to add a different kind of peanut butter to cookies before!!! I wonder if I could find a way to add this peanut butter to a snikerdoodle to mimic cinnamon raisin toast! AHH!
You should totally try it – that would be delicious!! :)
I love peanut butter on an english muffin!
Rachel, don’t ever curb your peanut butter enthusiasm!! I am right in your corner for treats like these. Holy cow, these look to DIE for!
What a fun giveaway!! All of those peanut butters sound incredible. I would love to try the dark chocolate one. :) These cookies are such a great way to use the peanut butter though! Really love the sound of cinnamon raisin pb. Pinned!
I would never have thought to use PB in cookies aside from peanut butter ones – such a creative idea that I will certainly try. I love PB&CO’s products and might have to look up a creative way to use my chocolate peanut butter aside from eating it right off the spoon :)
Oh I want one of these cookies so much! I love oatmeal cookies – these look wonderful!
i like peanut butter many ways but my favorite will be on ants on a log and in cookies, but i also like it on toast or PB&J sandwiches or even in satay sauce with chicken kabobs!
I love peanut butter! Especially in my cookies! These look heavenly!
I doubt that peanut butter would ever make it to Australia but one can only hope. I love those cookies!
Talk about putting all the best stuff together! These flavors would be amazing together. I have to try it!
I love peanut butter. I need to try more flavored peanut butters. They are addicting!
I love to add a spoon of peanut butter to my oatmeal and in my smoothies
I love peanut butter and chocolate together.
I actually just really like the classic pairing of peanut butter and jelly. :)
Anyone would be crazy to turn down a box of peanut butter! I love the cookie recipe. Cinnamon raisin and peanut butter, YUM!
I like to enjoy peanut butter with pretzels or apple slices!
I like to use peanut butter in cookies and blonde brownies. I can see lots of possibilities with these flavored peanut butters.
I eat peanut butter with bananas. Sometimes on a plate, sometimes on bread.
My favorite way to eat peanut butter is in a peanut dipping sauce.
My favorite way to enjoy peanut butter is through peanut butter fudge!
on ezekiel bread :)
I like apples slices dipped into peanut butter or spread on a banana
I make protein PB balls for the kids and myself…I’d love to try them with these new flavors!!!
I, too, am a PB addict! Can’t wait to try these cookies…just wondering if I can’t find the cinnamon PB would you recommend upping the cinnamon to a full teaspoon to compensate for what will be missing in the PB you used….I’m thinking it can’t hurt with cinnamon and oatmeal being such a great combo anyway!
Hi Kerry! If you can’t find the peanut butter, you could absolutely up the amount of cinnamon. I tend to like things cinnamon-y, so I definitely would :)
i have one batch chilling in the ref now. i tasted a bit of the dough and its yummmmmmmmy!!! This is a great a recipe, so simple and everything is just in my pantry, no need for a special grocery list.
thanks so much for this. i followed you in twitter :)
Hope you love the cookies, Carla!! :)
Hey!
I love these cookies…
But my mixture is crumbly?! Where have I gone wrong?
They do mould into balls and come out as a small cookie, not as big as these.
Honestly they do taste amazing but I’m wondering where I’ve gone wrong or if that’s right?
I’m from the UK and not like any cookies I’ve made here
Happy New Year! X
Hi Sarah, what kind of peanut butter did you use? I always use natural peanut butter which is pretty oily, if yours isn’t oily it could’ve made it more firm and crumbly. The size also could just be if you made different sized dough balls. Happy New Year to you too! Let me know if there’s anything else I can help with.
Love love love this recipie! It was a hit a picnic made them for this week.
I used buckwheat flour in place of the regular flour, for the oats I did 1/4 regular oats and the other portion were the quick oats.
I used dark brown sugar rather then light because it’s what I had and lastly I used regular salted natural pb because again it’s what I had in had on hand. Thanks so much, one for the books! Will be making again very soon!
So thrilled you’re loving the cookies, Morgan! Thanks so much for your feedback :)
Tried this recipe today. It is very dry and there is no liquid for the oats or raisins to absorb. And yes, they each need to absorb a little water for baking. They WILL, and no water in a recipe changes how oats cook. Without water, oats fry to a crisp and don’t hold. Water is what binds oats, not butter. It’s also unidealistic to keep cookie dough in the fridge for up to a week, and since there is no liquid for the oats to absorb (one egg and butter and vanillan are not liquids), I can only assume keeping it covered in the fridge for a week is the author’s way of gathering moisture, because refrigerators draw moisture out of food. The end mix is REALLY hard to mix, it’s more like kneading the raisins in because it’s so firm. I ended up adding 1/3 cup water to the mix just so I could fold the raisins in. Also elevation is always a factor. Here on the north coast of California, old fashioned oats do not cook in cookies with no water in only 12 minues. Please consider physics and relativity when posting recipes. It’s also no notice no one has posted about actually making these yet with only 1 prior vote for the recipe, which is disappointing because that is the indication making a blog recipe is either worth the time/hassle or not. 5 stars for taste, but only 3 for needing to fix it just to add the raisins.
Hi Alleria, sorry you had trouble with this! I’ve never found the recipe to be too dry and haven’t ever really needed to use water for oat recipes, but that can definitely vary based on conditions. If you’re at a higher elevation, that could definitely have to do with it. Thanks for sharing your feedback about adding water. Glad you enjoyed the taste once you were able to get everything well mixed!
Looks incredibly delicious! Would love to try and make these.
Hope you love them!
LOVE this so much!
Cookies always THE BEST
Yay so glad you’re loving them!
How many cookies does this make? Approximately
It depends on the size of the cookies, but it should yield between 12-16 cookies!
This recipe worked well with reconstituted peanut powder! I hoped it would give me a less sweet and oily cookie. The dough didn’t spread much while baking and did require more baking time. I got 2 dozen good sized cookies. Appears the cinnamon raisin PB is no longer available on the site. Used a full teaspoon of cinnamon because I only had a plain PB (peanut powder mixed with water) and it could have taken more for a more pronounced spice.