This recipe for Blueberry Muffin Oatmeal Cookies was originally posted in May, 2015. The photos were updated in May, 2017.
Add some whole grains to a boxed muffin mix and the end result is a perfect cross between a muffin and a cookie! These thick, soft, and chewy Blueberry Muffin Oatmeal Cookies are a delicious option for breakfast, snack, or even dessert!
I’ve mentioned on here a few times that I’ve recently been sifting through a lot of my mom’s old recipe cards. It’s a fun, nostalgic way to rediscover some old favorites and to take a walk down memory lane! Today’s cookies are inspired by a recipe that I found in my mom’s stash. I have to be honest, though: I don’t ever remember my mom actually making these!
I could have called them “Mom’s Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies,” but that wouldn’t really be true. If she ever made them, it wasn’t often! I imagine that she probably got the recipe from a friend, made them once or twice, and then forgot about them.
But you know what? It’s blueberry season, my family loves blueberry muffins for breakfast, and I love an easy, make-ahead meal or snack option that can be consumed on-the-go. Are you with me?
These cookies are so simple because they start with a box of blueberry muffin mix. You can use any mix that you like, but if you read my most recent Stuff We Love post, then you’ll know that I’m a fan of the Duncan Hines Simple Mornings Wild Maine Blueberry mix (this isn’t a sponsored post, I just buy the mix with my own money and love it!). I appreciate that it’s made with whole grains and very basic ingredients that I can pronounce, without all of the funky stuff. It comes with a can of wild blueberries in the box, so I don’t even need to have fresh berries on hand if I want to make these cookies.
If you prefer to use a different muffin mix, that’s no problem! Either find a similar mix with real blueberries in the box, or add a couple of handfuls of your own fresh berries. Easy peasy.
By adding just a few additional ingredients to the muffin mix, you will get these puffy, chewy, delicious cookies. They are like a cross between an oatmeal cookie and a muffin top…in the best possible way.
My boys eat them for dessert after a meal, but they have also been known to snack on them in the afternoon and to enjoy them with some fruit and milk for breakfast. Such a treat!
The cookies freeze really well, too. So just like muffins, I keep a stash of these tightly wrapped in the freezer for my busy days (or for those times when we need a sweet fix and the cabinet is looking bare!). With just a few seconds in the microwave they are ready to go!
Blueberry Muffin Oatmeal Cookies
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 22 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 (17.8 ounce) box blueberry muffin mix (I like Duncan Hines Simple Mornings Wild Maine Blueberry mix, which includes a can of blueberries, but any similar boxed mix will work well. If you use a mix without a can of blueberries, you can about 1/4 cup - 1/2 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries to the mix)
- ¾ cup quick-cooking oats
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 small eggs or 1 extra large egg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray two large baking sheets with cooking spray or line with parchment paper and set aside.
- Wash blueberries in a colander; drain and allow to dry on paper towels.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl combine muffin mix, oats, brown sugar, canola oil, milk, and egg. Mix well.
- Gently fold in blueberries.
- Use a tablespoon to drop dough onto prepared baking sheets. If the dough is very sticky, just keep your hands and your tablespoon wet so that the batter doesn’t stick too much.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until just set.
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These muffin cookies look amazing, Blair! I love this idea of smashing the two together! And you definitely can’t go wrong with anything flavored with blueberries. Sounds delicious!
Thanks, Gayle! It’s really just the perfect excuse to eat dessert for breakfast! My kids LOVE them (no surprise)!
Yum! Sounds awesome! And I love that the oats give it an added health-bonus!
Thanks, Kristin!!
Blair, these cookies look so delicious!! I love how you’ve made them so simple to make, using that muffin mix! 🙂 Pinned!
Thanks, Anna! Easy is definitely the only way to go around here! 🙂
these look great! Thanks for sharing on Food and fitness Fridays!
Thanks! 🙂
I don’t usually go for sweet stuff but these sound delicious, there is something about an oaty biscuit that I find terribly alluring 😀
Hah! These are just right, Brian! Not too sweet, but perfectly thick and chewy. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
These look fantastic! I’ve got some blueberries left, I’m going to make a batch of these today. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks, Petro! I hope that you can try them — they’re delicious!!
Found you through the Making Memories Monday link up and I’m so glad I did. I’m pinning and stumbling this to share with everyone because these look SO GOOD!
Thanks so much, Becca!! I’m so glad that you found me, too. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
we are thinking with the same brain, giggle. I shared blueberry scones today. Pinned this yumminess and I look forward to having them with tea in the morning. I invite you to share at my Thursday hop. You can link up from Weds night 7PM MST to Sat midnight) Hugs!
Hi, Katherine! Thanks so much for stopping by! You’re right — great minds think alike! Scones sound delicious!
I´m a huge fan of oats in a cookie! I think that Blueberries and Oats should be maried in the food world 🙂
Totally agree, Johlene!! 🙂
YUM’d! This looks delicious. A definite must try! Please come share your blog posts over at the Home Matters Linky Party! We’d love to have you for a visit. The Door OPENS tonight at 9pm Pacific Time. 🙂
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Thanks so much, Lorelai!
100% pinned to make tomorrow morning! These just look so good Blair! 🙂
Cathy
Oh, great! Enjoy, Cathy! My boys love ’em! 🙂
My husband’s favorite cookie is oatmeal, and my son’s favorite food is blueberries, so this is just perfect! I know all three of us would love them! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Merry Monday, and we hope you’ll join us again tonight! 🙂
Thanks so much for stopping by, Christine!!
I absolutely love this! Thanks for sharing it with us. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you tomorrow night at 7 pm. We can’t wait to party with you! Lou Lou Girls
Thank you!! 🙂
I’m in love with this idea! I came a crossed it through Birchbox’s Instagram. Ran to the store to get the ingredients. Realized I grabbed old fashioned oats rather than quick cooking. Not a baker so my concern is if I can still use the old fashion oats? thanks Blair for the share! ?
Hi, Nikki! No worries — the old-fashioned oats should work great! The quick-cooking oats are just a bit finer, so there’s less “oat” texture in the final product, but there’s not enough of a difference to hurt the recipe. It should be just fine! Thanks so much for stopping by. 🙂
I tried this recipe with a home-made muffin mix. The only tweak I recommend is that the milk definitely needs to be higher than 1 tsbp. I baked one half batch (9 pieces) with that amount of milk stay round and have a scone-like texture. While tha baked, in the next half batch I added about 1/3 c milk and it made them more soft like your picture. Both delicious tasting though! I will be making these again with different fruit and nut combos in the future.
I’m glad that you tried it, Joy! I need to make another batch of these ASAP! I can imagine that the type of mix you use will really alter the amount of milk that is required. I’m glad that you figured out how to make it work for you. Enjoy!
I made these cookies on a whim one Sunday because I was bored & it’s a quick, easy recipe. They were such a hit, I now make them once a week! They’re so easy that I can make them with my 1yo nephew & not worry about messing it up.
My dad really likes nuts in his cookies so I tried this recipe with banana nut muffin mix. It works pretty well, though I suggest upping the milk to 1.5tbsp otherwise they dough is pretty dry.
These were a hit at our house! So easy, we will be making these again.
That’s great, Melissa! Thanks for letting me know! So glad that you enjoyed them. 🙂
I’ve got some blueberries leftover & I’m really excited to try them for my fiancé and myself! We love that you’ve corresponded oats in there! ???
Excellent! Enjoy, Naomi! They are definitely a favorite around here!
Hi Blair……I found your Blueberry Oatmeal Muffin Cookies on Pinterest and shared this amazing recipe on my JGB website! I love blueberries but to make cookies and muffin toplike…..oh so much more amazing and delicious. Thank You for sharing this and the next recipe I’m going to try in the lemony blueberry doughnuts! Another love of mine…..lemony anything! Kudos!
Estela Kelley
Hi, Estela! Yay, thanks so much for sharing!!! I hope you love the donuts, too. It’s the season where lemon and berries all sound amazing!
Hello Blair, I’ve stumbled across your recipe and tried it out but found the ratio of liquids to dry ingredients quite low. I don’t have boxed muffin mix here so mixed together flour, baking powder and salt but to 17.8oz. Do you prepare the boxed mix as per the instructions on it and add the other ingredients for the cookies? Thanks! Kristina
Hi, Kristina! Nope, I just use the dry mix and then proceed with my recipe as instructed (I do NOT prepare the muffin batter according to the box). I’m not sure how to advise you to prepare them without the mix, because the mix includes other ingredients such as sweetener, etc. in certain proportions that I’m not aware of. I’m afraid the cookies just wouldn’t turn out the same at all if I was trying to replicate the mix from scratch. 🙁
Another option would be to try a more traditional oatmeal cookie recipe (that doesn’t require a box), but add in fresh or dried blueberries instead of raisins or chocolate chips. 🙂
Thanks Blair. I have never made american-style cookies but I had more a powder-like consistency after adding the oil and eggs. This test batch turned out more like scone cookies and are not bad either 😉 I will keep on trying for the muffin cookies though! Thanks again!
I’m glad that the test batch wasn’t a complete disaster! 🙂
Oh, my goodness! These are good! I just made them. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Awesome! I’m so glad that you love them, Cindy! Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
I made these and they are awesome!
Great! So glad that you love them, Cindy!
I am trying these today. They look delicious. Thanks for the recipe.
Awesome! Enjoy, Lora! 🙂
Hey was just wondering how many of these cookies can you have at one time like a serve and if you know what the macros are for them how much protein carbs etc
Hi, Andrew! I’m not sure what the macros are for this recipe. I’ll try to figure it out and get the nutrition panel added. 🙂
Hi, Andrew! The Nutrition Panel has been added! 🙂
These cookies sounds SO GOOD! `How can you not love blueberry muffins?
Hi, Rachel! Thanks so much for your sweet comment. I agree — you can’t go wrong with blueberry muffins! 🙂
Blair, these are AMAZING! I’ve already made them twice in two weeks. Once, for my own family and then for a family get-together. They are so delicious and so easy to make. And they work as breakfast, snack and dessert. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Meredith! That’s awesome!!! I’m so glad that you like them, and I agree — they’re so easy, so good, and perfect for breakfast, snack, or dessert! Thanks for stopping by and letting me know! 🙂
So, so good!! I added flax seeds and a baked sweet potato (maybe 1.5C) as well just to up the nutritional value a little since my goal is an easy breakfast for my toddler. Holy moly… if I don’t eat them all tonight, I can’t wait to see how he loves them in the morning!
So my family absolutely loved these, even my picky eaters!!!
But I was wondering if u had any ideas to make the more nutritious?? Like more fiber or protein?? Bc I’m thinking they will be an awesome breakfast before school!!
Hi, Julie! That’s great! I’m so glad that your kids enjoyed the cookies! One reader in another comment said that she added some mashed sweet potato to the recipe, which apparently worked well. You could also try adding nuts (not sure if your kids would enjoy those or not) for healthy fats and a tiny bit of added protein. Any other major changes in the ingredients will definitely change the texture/outcome of the cookie. You could try decreasing the oil to 2 tablespoons and adding 1/4 cup of Greek yogurt. It just wouldn’t be a huge increase in protein per serving…
I think your best bet would be to do what I do — give the kids a glass of milk on the side! Then they get protein and calcium in addition to the cookies. 🙂
I have a challenge. I bought a box of blueberry muffin instant oatmeal (by accident, the box color is the same as the plain that I normally buy). These are the instant packets that can be microwaved. It’s also got flax seeds. I tried it, but it’s really not my flavor. I’ve got about five packets left, each about 1/3 of a cup and wondered if I could turn these into blueberry muffin cookies and bring them to my 3rd grade religious education class. The brand is “Better Oats.” Sort of a healthy blend. I hate wasting food, but I’m at a loss as to what to do with them.
Hey, Sara! You can totally use those packets in cookies! I’ve seen a bunch of different recipes on the internet for that type of thing in the past, so I’m sure if you Google it you can find a good one.
Here’s one link right now: https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-make-oatmeal-cookies-with-instant-oatmeal/
Hope that helps!
These were very delicious! A little on the too sweet side for me
and the hubs though , so I just was wondering… Do you think there’s enough sweetener in the mix to leave out the extra brown sugar?
Hi, Sandy! Yes, I think you can definitely try it without the brown sugar. Let me know if you do — I’d love to know how it works!
I made these yesterday afternoon and it was a big mistake! These may possibly be my new favorite recipe, I had 4 by the time I went to bed! Thank you so much for this recipe, they’re delicious!
Dangerously good, right Courtney?! 🙂 I’m so glad that you enjoyed them!