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This easy-to-make Ina Garten cookie recipe has been on rotation in my house for weeks

September 12, 20240
The ingredient list for Ina Garten’s cookies doesn’t have many surprises.

Terri Peters

Garten’s salty oatmeal chocolate-chunk cookies require simple ingredients.

To make them, you need unsalted butter, light-brown sugar, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, all-purpose flour, baking soda, kosher salt, old-fashioned oats, bittersweet chocolate chunks, dried cranberries, and fleur de sel.

Garten uses fleur de sel, a French sea salt, in her recipe, but I usually just use Maldon sea-salt flakes from my pantry because it’s been easier for me to find.

I’ve used chocolate chunks I chopped from a bar and store-bought ones from the baking aisle and both have worked well in this recipe.

The first step is to combine the wet ingredients and sugars with a mixer.
I don’t always use a sifter for this step.

Terri Peters

Next, I sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a separate bowl.

I’ve used my sifter for this step but have also lightly combined the ingredients with a wooden spoon in a bowl — both have led me to similar cookie results.

After those are combined, I stir in the oats.

Once each set of ingredients is mixed separately, I combine them.
I used store-bought chocolate chunks for this recipe.

Terri Peters

Once all of the wet and dry ingredients are combined into a cookie dough, it’s time to mix in the chocolate chunks and dried cranberries.

It doesn’t take much arm power or effort to combine everything into one delicious-looking blob.

Each cookie gets sprinkled with salt before baking.
My cookies usually take 12 minutes to fully bake.

Terri Peters

Garten recommends baking the cookies in an oven preheated to 375 Fahrenheit for 10 to 12 minutes. I usually bake them for 12.

This recipe usually yields me about 36 cookies, so I bake them in batches.

Even once the cookies cool, they’re soft and chewy in the center.
I’ve made Ina Garten’s oatmeal chocolate-chunk cookies many times.

Terri Peters

The salty oatmeal chocolate-chunk cookies have become a favorite in my home, and I’ve made them several times since finding the recipe.

The oats add sturdiness and texture to the cookies, and each bite contains the perfect amount of chocolate. Dried cranberries add a slight tartness that only contributes to the cookie’s savory-and-sweet combination of flavors.

The real star, however, is the flaky sea salt, which adds a pop of salty goodness to each bite of an otherwise sweet cookie.

Even better, this is an easy cookie recipe to whip up whenever my family asks for it, as most of the ingredients are things I already have in my kitchen.