Monster Cookies
Fun - Chewy - Delicious! Everyone loves Monster Cookies!
Servings: 3 doz
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 4 1/2 cups oatmeal, old fashioned or quick (but not instant) If you use the old fashioned oatmeal, the cookies will have more crunchy, chewy texture.
- 1 cup M&M's, regular or mini
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped
- 1 cup flour - optional Use if you want cookie to be more firm.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mat.
- Cream butter, peanut butter, brown and white sugars together. Add eggs and mix well.
- Add vanilla and baking powder. Mix. The traditional recipe did not call for any flour, but over the years the consistency of butter and peanut butter may have changed. Without the flour, the cookies are thin and crispy. With the flour, they have a chewy texture, more like traditional oatmeal cookies.
- Add favorite chips, candies, nuts. Try butterscotch chips, raisins, toffee bits, peanut butter chips or pistacios. Gently mix, until just combined.
- Use 2 tablespoon scoop and place about 6 cookies on prepared baking sheets. Slightly pat down. Place 4-5 M&Ms on top to make them extra pretty. Bake 12-15 minutes or until slightly brown. Can also use a 3 tablespoon scoop and bake the cookies longer -if you want BIG Monster Cookies. Cool a few minutes on the baking sheet, then move to cooling rack. Probably have to taste some at this point.
- After cookies are completely cooled, you can keep in airtight container for a week (but I doubt they will last that long)! You can also put them in freezer storage bags and freeze them. Of course, once you know they are there - hard to resist - just taking one out at a time....they won't last long.
Notes
We made these growing up, using original recipe. With 6 of us kids, they probably didn't last long. I think we got the recipe from my Aunt Helen Davitt Ripperger. She said her kids loved to make the big batch because she would buy a new trash can and let mix it up in it. Fun memories.