Rocky Mountain Cookies
These rocky mountain cookies are unique and delicious- chewy, soft oatmeal chocolate chip cookie with crunchy Rice Krispies in every bite.
Such a delightfully simple cookie. But oh baby, are these ever worthy to grace the posts of Sugar Rush.
Think of a chewy, soft oatmeal chocolate chip cookie with light and crunchy Rice Krispies bubbling through every bite. I love the texture of these cookies.
Thick and soft, crunchy and chewy…and so very simple to throw together.
They won’t last long, I can promise you that.
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Rocky Mountain Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup (212 g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (212 g) packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup (227 g) butter, softened to room temperature
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups (284 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups (200 g) old-fashioned oats
- 2 cups crisp rice cereal, like Rice Krispies
- 2 cups (340 g) chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, cream together the sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat well.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix. Fold in oats, cereal and chips.
- Drop tablespoonfuls of the cookie dough onto lightly greased or lined (with parchment or silicone liner) baking sheets.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes until the cookies are lightly golden brown but still soft.
Serving: 1 Cookie, Calories: 259kcal, Carbohydrates: 38g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 11g, Saturated Fat: 7g, Cholesterol: 37mg, Sodium: 158mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 23g
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Recipe Source: from my friend, Mariann, via The Essential Mormon Cookbook
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Love love love these cookies thank you!
I do need to put a correction in though, the recipe states it makes 24 cookies think I have 48 in the batch.
Purchased 3 cookbooks for family. Love!
Thank you so much, Janet!
Great consistency and taste!
We liked these- they’re we’re a fun change from the regular chocolate chip cookies or even oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! Thanks!!
I just made this recipe and love it! The rice krispies add an surprising texture to the cookie. I wanted to make something that was a little out of the box from the usual chocolate chip and these really were a nice twist. Thank you for the recipe!
Thanks, Megan!
I really like the rice krispys in this recipe, a nice change from the traditional chocolate chip recipe. This made 4 dozen for me. Hubby is due home from work any time now, he is going to be a happy guy since I haven’t made anything chocolate in a while. Thanks for a keeper Mel!
Fabulous cookies!! A terrific balance of gooey (from the chocolate chips) and crunchy (from the rice crisps)!
They won’t last long with the Cookie Monsters (plus their friends) in my home!!
Thanks for posting…..definitely added to my favourites.
I made these for my son’s baptism, knowing that they’d be good because they were from your site! These are AWESOME!!!!! I loved the dough even more than the cookies. So easy and so delicious.
These sound delicious! Can’t wait to try them but out of curiosity is this recipe already adjusted for areas of high elevation?
The recipe isn’t specifically for high altitude, but many people have made them who live at higher elevation.
My daughter loves to bake. This recipe was featured on a Good Housekeeping article entitled 50 Most Delicious Cookies by State. She is baking through the list and has started a Facebook page for her baking adventures. We take the cookies she bakes to our local youth theater. Yesterday, we made these cookies. The kids LOVED them – they were a huge hit with all the teens and kids. A few Moms even asked me to share the recipe. Congrats!
MEL – DO YOU KNOW THESE COOKIES ARE ON A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING LIST OF BEST COOKIES BY STATE? I think it actually had nothing to do with people in that state liking them. Some of the links are to places wanting to sell you cookies, but most are to recipes.
I hope this leads lots of people to your site! I am thinking you have lived somewhere around the Great Lakes, and now you’re in Idaho. Maybe you have friends in Colorado who will especially appreciate this recipe and your site attached.
Haha, I didn’t realize that! Yes, I used to live in Wisconsin/Minnesota and now Idaho.
Finally got around to trying a new cookie, and had never had Rice Krispies in a cookie, so curiosity pulled me to this recipe. It was delicious. I loved the extra texture from the oats and cereal together. Plus they baked up beautiful round and thick. I used a 1 TB cookie scoop and it made 4 dozen. Thanks for something new to add to our cookie rotation. Your recipes simply never fail.
This is real good treat! I love them. Made 37 cookies and ate 15 of them in 2 days (there goes my diet! Lol!) i added some grinded cheerios since i dont have enough rice krispies and they are still superb! Thanks for this wonderful recipe and cant wait to try another one! – the peanut butter and oatmeal cookies 🙂
Hi there! How many cookies does this recipe (and what size cookie – 1, 2, or 3 Tbl scoop)? I’m part of a cookie exchange coming up, and I need to make dough for over 120 cookies!
Hi Venessa, I use a cookie scoop that is about 1 1/2 tablespoons and it probably makes about 2-3 dozen cookies.
Rachel – sorry, I don’t understand what you are looking for. Another cookie recipe?
Mel where did your chocolate chip, oatmeal, with coconut flakes and dark and light brown sugar? Am I blind?
Love the cookies and the rice krispies are a nice addition.
Tracey – probably about 2-3 dozen.
Just wondering if you know about how many cookies this recipe makes. I’m considering this recipe for a cookie exchange, but I have to take 3-4 dozen cookies! Thanks so much!
I made these yesterday- I had about half a package of Heath toffee chips so added them also. I like to make balls instead of drop cookies so your recipe made 4 and a half dozen golf sized balls that baked perfectly. I just tasted a couple of crumbs but I can tell they are good. I’m off to volunteering soon and they will be eaten quickly I am sure. Thanks!
Made these tonight. Seemed like they needed a longer cooking time in my oven. But, my husband raved about them, so that’s what’s important. Just wish I could try all these wonderful recipes of yours. Unfortunately they’re not on my diet list. Do you have any “healthy” recipes? 🙂
Hi there,
Just made these cookies today for the first time… followed the directions exactly… they taste pretty good, but don’t look like yours in the picture! 🙁 Any ideas on why not? I live in Utah, and I just have a regular oven (not convection). The cookies are flat and kind of “lacy” looking and fall apart easily. 🙁 What do you think?
BTW, LOVE your website; I get lots of recipes from here. Keep up the good work!
Kellie – It’s hard to know exactly what went wrong but my guess is that it is something related to altitude – when I used to live in Utah, I often had to add a couple tablespoons of extra flour if my cookies were turning out flat like you said yours were. It could also be related to overly soft butter – that can make cookies bake up flat, too. Hope that helps a little!
I added Heath chips since I was all out of chocolate chips and they were delicious.
The dry cookie trouble above was probably because of not softened butter. My dough was the same way, but I just formed them into little doughballs with my hands. I’m always too impatient to wait for the butter to soften. =) The kitchen aid does pretty well at breaking all the butter up evenly.
I liked hearing the famous snap, crackle, and pop as I pulled them out of the oven I love this recipe!
5 stars! My son said these are his new favorite cookie. I followed Kara’s suggestion of increasing the salt and adding cinnamon – the cinnamon really adds a special touch, and the rice krispies are a such a fun surprise. Can’t wait to try more of your recipes!
I never expected the extra crunch in this cookie to be so good! I added 1 tsp of cinnamon because I love oatmeal and cinnamon together. Yet again, another delightful recipe! 🙂
I didnt go for the cinnamon chip variation, I was too chicken, but I really loved these cookies. They were really light and I felt less guilty because of the oatmeal and the cereal dispersed some of the butter and sugar so you ate less of the bad stuff…..least that is what I told myself when I ate about 2 dozen myself 🙂 When I make these again I will for sure take them out just as they get slightly brown, some where a little too crisp, but if you pop them in the microwave for 10 sec. they get nice and chewy! You cant waste a single cookie, when I finally bake something.
juliann – thanks for checking back in on this recipe! I’m glad they worked out for you.
I made these in the 9×13 pan and they turned out great! Everyone loved them! Thanks and hope you had a very Merry Christmas!!
Kensi – I’m so glad these worked out in bar form! I’ve been wondering…thanks for letting me know!
I made them, and I liked them. I can’t say I loved them, but they were all right. They were better when cooled completely. I was surprised that I got not just texture from the rice crispies (which I liked) but also a little flavor (the thing that kept me from loving them.)
So, the tip on greasing the pan or using parchment, that’s a good tip. Totally.
Tricia – thanks for checking in on this recipe!
I am about to make these and found cinnamon chips in my pantry….I wonder how those would taste instead of the chocolate chips? I bake maybe twice a year so I dont know if I want to risk it!
Juliann – I say go for it!
I am planning on giving out cookie dough as a gift this year, (gotta love the line, ” ’cause everyone can use come dough this time of year”). Does the dough freeze well to cook later? Looks Yummy!
Amanda – I’ve never frozen this dough, but I imagine it would freeze just fine. Cute tagline for your gifts!
Very good cookie! Made a trial batch to see if they would be added to the annual cookie trays (I add a new wildcard recipe each year) and they are a keeper! Will be making many, many batches of these this week!
KeithsKelly – glad these made the cut to get onto the neighbor trays!
These look like a delicious twist on traditional oatmeal chocolate chip cookies!
We have a recipe like this at our house too! The recipe calls for either rice krispies or corn flakes. I personally prefer the corn flakes. But they are my FAVORITE cookies! YUM
I’ve never had Rice Krispies in a cookie…I bet they are fabulous! I can’t wait to try this recipe! 🙂
i had forgotten about these, which is a shame, because those rice krispies are such an unexpected and welcome addition. good stuff.
I have a nearly identical cookie over on my blog – it’s one of my favorites!
http://pedersenfood.blogspot.com/2010/09/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-krispers.html
Thick, soft, crunchy, chewy… sounds perfect!
I made these cookies tonight and they have really good flavor. I love the crunch of the rice krispies, however; my cookie dough was really crumbly and the second batch would not stick together. I added some milk to the dough and they turned out much better. Did I do something wrong when I mixed the dough together?
Janette – was your butter soft enough? Hmmm…I’m not sure what would have gone wrong but I’m glad that you were able to rescue the dough with the milk!
I have a recipe just like this I was going to post over on my blog soon, it’s my favorite cookie! But mine has 1 tsp salt (which I really like) 1 tsp cinnamon and only 1 cup of oatmeal, they are thinner I think than yours, and crunchy! That brown sugar and krispies along with the cinnamon make them addictive!
I think I need to make a batch just for me!
I love the surprise ‘crunch’ of Rice Krispies in cookies!
Mel, these look delish! I’m bookmarking them right now 😉
Oh, I forgot to ask… can I bake these in bar form? In a 9×13 pan?
Kensi – I’m not sure since I haven’t tried it…I think it’s worth a try. I’d probably use a 9X13-inch pan and bake them for about 18 minutes to start with (check often!).
These look yummy! I am going to make them for my husband’s birthday next week. He is a cake hater and always requests cookies for his birthday! 😀 Thanks for the recipe!
A new cookie always gets my attention. My two year old loves to help dump things into the mixing bowl, so he would love to help with these! I have learned beyond helping with that part there isn’t much I can actually consider to be help from him. But he loves to cook, well bake really.
Won’t be long ….
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