Peanut Butter Oatmeal Trail Mix Cookies

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Trail Mix Cookies are the ultimate pantry clearing oatmeal cookie recipe!

A light crispy exterior with chewy center these Trail Mix Cookies are the best easy and most delicious way to carry your trail mix.

Everything cookies

A monster like drop cookie recipe with peanut butter, oatmeal and whatever trail mix ingredients you choose.

Load them up with nuts, seeds, chocolate, dried fruit, and and every other trail mix ingredients you have.

Trail Mix Cookies really are the ideal are the best base for whatever flavor and texture combinations you can come up with!

Just like ANYTHING can go into trail mix, anything and everything can go into trail mix cookies.

Ingredients

• Trail mix
• Old fashioned oats
• Butter
• Light brown sugar
• Granulated sugar
• Peanut butter – creamy peanut butter or crunchy peanut butter.
• Eggs
• Whole wheat flour – Don’t have any whole wheat flour around or just plain prefer to avoid wheat? Use regular flour or experiment with almond flour or another gluten free flour.
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Ground cinnamon

Trail mix

Classic chocolate trail mix like Costco trail mix / Kirkland trail mix, and Target’s Archer Farms trail mix use m&ms chocolate candy, peanuts, almonds, cashews and raisins. You can make trail mix without raisins though by substituting another dried fruit or make trail mix without fruit.

Or choose trail mix ingredients inspired by tried and true flavor combinations like bananas and chocolate, coconut and macadamia nuts, and pretzels and chocolate.

Or simply open up the baking cabinet and use up what’s left in the bottom of all those random bags to look for trail mix ingredients. A little salty potato chips with peanuts and chocolate maybe?

Step by step instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Preparing baking sheets with parchment paper, silicone baking sheets or lightly grease with butter or baking spray.
2. Beat room temperature butter with brown sugar and granulated sugar until light and fluffy then add peanut butter.
3. Mix in eggs, one at a time, incorporating well after each addition.
4. In a medium bowl, combine oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add combined mixture to creamed mix and stir until it comes together. 
5. Add trail mix and stir until combined.
6. Using a ½ inch ice cream scoop drop dough onto prepared baking sheets. Placing only 8 cookies per sheet rather than 12 to leave space for spreading.

7. Bake cookies, rotating halfway through until golden brown and just set, about 12 to 14 minutes. Just make sure not to overbake them or they’ll lose that great texture contrast.
8. Let cool on sheet 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack.
9. Enjoy! These trail mix cookies are packed with high energy, nutritious ingredients and make a great after school, outdoor adventure or picnic snack.

How to store

Store Trail Mix Cookies tightly covered in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Or freeze cookie dough for up to 3 months.

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