Monster Cookies

By mkuchel

Ingredients

• 2 sticks (1/2 Pound) Butter (salted) Softened
• 1/2 cup White Sugar
• 1-1/2 cup Brown Sugar, Packed
• 2 whole Large Eggs
• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
• 1-1/2 cup All-purpose Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 2 teaspoons Kosher Salt
• 1-1/2 cup Oats (either Quick Or Regular)
• 1/2 cup M & M's (more To Taste)
• 1/2 cup Pecans, Chopped (more To Taste)
• 3/4 cups Chocolate Chips (milk Or Semi-sweet)
• 1/2 cup Peanut Butter Chips
• 2-1/4 cups Rice Krispies

Details

Servings 36
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 27mins
Adapted from thepioneerwoman.com

Preparation

Step 1

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yesterday afternoon, I was having trouble deciding whether to make a soup, a casserole, or a main dish salad for dinner. I kept going back and forth and I just couldn’t make up my mind.

Make these your own, bumping up quantities of whatever ingredients float your boat: M&M’s, nuts, chocolate chips—just adjust as you feel led. Rather than add peanut butter to the dough as most Monster Cookie recipes do, I add peanut butter chips. I like to keep the oatmeal cookie flavor as the base.

Throw the butter and both sugars into a mixer. Paddle attachment is best.

I wonder if that’s due to the fact that I always use a mixer? Which came first? The mixer or the atrophy?

Mix it until it’s nice and fluffy and combined.

Mixing well after each addition.

Add in vanilla and mix to combine.

It makes me happy.

Now mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and kosher salt.

Dump it into the mixing bowl…

And mix it up till it’s all combined. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula halfway through.

Mix it just a little bit until it’s combined.

Chocolate chips. I did a mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate, because sometimes semi-sweet gets a little strong for me and can dominate cookies and then everything’s RUINED!

Now you can mix it again (very gently). Check out the quantities of everything, and dump in a little more of what you might want.

I like to add the Rice Krispies at the end so they won’t get completely beaten up.

Then mix it around till combined. Done!

They’ll make you grin.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Cream butter with sugars until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and beat.

Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and kosher salt. Add to mixing bowl and mix till combined. After that, add in remaining ingredients in whatever quantity you prefer. Add more nuts if you'd like, or more M & M's, more peanut butter chips or chocolate chips.

Add Rice Crispies at the very end, mixing until just combined. Do not overmix!

I agree! These look good, but I’ll continue to make “real” Monster Cookies.

Agreed….no flour! I just made a batch. My recipe makes 14 dozen cookies and it took TWO 26 cup tupperware bowls to mix them up in. I baked half of them for a bake sale and froze half of them in ball form. So now when I want a fresh cookie I can take out a dozen or so and bake them up for a quick treat.

Why not just keep the flour and add peanut butter. The cookies will be dense and heavy without the flour won’t they?

I agree no flour…….makes the best and easiest cookie. I have been making these for years now. I think mine are from a Paula Deen recipe.

Suzanne — the “real” monster cookies are a little denser and chewy. If I see a recipe for Monster Cookies and it contains flour, I know they’re not really Monster Cookies. In my neck of the woods, Monster Cookies don’t have so many add ins, either. Peanut butter, oats, M&Ms and chocolate chips. No nuts, no coconut or anything else. They’re sinfully rich and delicious! And if you eat enough of them, the fiber gets ya!

The traditional style of monster cookies that have peanut butter and no flour ship extremely well. We discovered this cookie when my dad was stationed in Iraq. These will make it all the way to the desert and still be nice and chewy. It also makes a batch big enough to share.

Either way, these look AMAZING! And fun to make.

These are my Aunt’s cookies….I love them. I was actually just really surprised that you posted them. I thought these were her private, wonderful, special cookies. I’ve had a little too much red ( and white) wine tonight with friends….But the Aunt that made these cookies for all my friends and family through the years just had a hysterectomy due to a tumor in her uterus and bladder ( that was benign). This recipe just reminded again how much I love her…she has always been a very special person to me. We have always loved her Monster Cookies.

Definitely, with the oats and nuts and rice krispied, these can’t be anything but super healthy. I think I need to make a batch or two so I feel better about my eating habits lately. Seriously though, they look awesome!!!

I put in oatmeal, chocolate chips, pecans and M&Ms. Then I like to cut up spice gum drop and add them in with a little coconut. Yum. The only problem is that the other people in my house, like my husband and daughter, don’t like them with gumdrops and coconut.

Add a teaspoon of light corn syrup and refrigerate before scooping.and oh my are those babies good! Breakfast, lunch AND dinner!

Ree! You have made my day and it’s not even the thirtieth yet here! I was getting ready to make your (ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS) malt cookies and then you post these.

I guess I’ll have to make both.

Just today I was thinking I needed to find a recipe for monster cookies so I could make them. I think I’m going to get cheeky and add peanut butter M&M’s!

To see this here warms my heart. 18 years ago my mom and I got second place in a national parent/child cookie contest with a mean monster cookie recipe. I was only 6 years old, but it was a pretty sweet experience. It was back in the day when they flew you to New York City in an all-expenses paid vacation and you got to stay at the Essex House where they had $5 candy bars. Talk about traumatizing. Haha.

Now I will be craving chocolate the rest of the day (it’s only 10.30am here)! Have to make these already at the weekend, they look so good!

Sound’s delicious. I already LOVE Hyacinth’s Everything cookies. I make up a batch of that dough, bake some, then put some of the dough, in rolls wrapped in wax paper, in to the freezer to have when I need cookies in a hurry.

yum! do the rice krispies add a little krisp to the general oatmeal cookie texture?

Just yesterday I was thinking about making cookies but modifying them to use different types of chips all at once. Like peanut butter, chocolate, and butterscotch chips. Or even throwing in some white chocolate chips and then presto! You’ve posted this recipe. I do believe you were reading my mind (very scary, scary place-run away quickly). Thanks a bunch for posting this. I’ll have to give them a whirl soon.

Heather (Faces of Beauty)

Vanilla makes me happy too. I made a pumpkin spice muffin recipe yesterday that I felt the absolute need to modify because there was no vanilla included. How is that even possible? Anyway, as I sit and drink my coffee and think about the large container of vanilla I drove a half hour out of my way to buy last week when I’d run out, because it’s $3 cheaper at that co-op and I swear it’s better quality, I do so now with the knowledge that I’m not alone in my adoration of vanilla.

My mom used to make Monster Cookies when I was growing up… I don’t think I’ve had one since……thanks for the tasty memory!

Yikes! I have not made these cookies for years and I think it is high time I make them. They were my 38 year old son’s favorite when he was little. His little boys just might like them as much as he did. I won’t get them made for tonight’s family night dinner but I will make them for next week. I can hardly wait. I love cooking memories!

Thanks for these! I need to make more cookied (:

I used to make these when my boys were little; my youngest thought I made them FOR MONSTERS! I had to reassure him that no, they were called Monster cookies becasue they are so large! I think I renamed them candy cookies, becasue there is so much candy in them!

A baking tip..you can grind oatmeal in a blender and use it instead of flour. I do it when I make banana bread, and use half oat flour and half reg flour in most cookies. Try it!

Yum! I love cookies! What a perfect thing to bake when you can’t decide what to make for supper. I like that way of thinking

The weekend ahead holds lots of cleaning, painting, and prepping our house for the Fall/Winter months (in addition to getting us organized for our upcoming wedding), but I think I’m going to have to make some time for these cookies. Nothing sounds better than curling up on the couch with some cookies, milk and a good movie after a day like we’ll have Saturday! Thanks, PW.

we use to make these when I was little!! They are my dad’s favorite!

Oh heaven….I make a similar cookie to that from one of my cookbooks called “backpack cookies”. Love them. My entire extended family and beyond loves them too.

If any of you have not made these cookies before, make them. The world will bow at your feet. Or at least before the cookie dough bowl.

I’ve never heard the name Monster Cookies before, but these look a *lot* like the chocolate chip cookies I grew up with (but yours have peanut butter chips and Rice Krispies added).

We make these, or at least a version of them from a Paula Deen cookbook. They have no flour or rice krispies like yours do. Still, they are our favorites. We use about 9 cups of oats in our version.

Thanks for this recipe, Ree! My son Gus will love making these. (And I love the Rice Krispies touch!) Can’t wait to make them.

So strange! The other day my friend made your sugar cookies from your cookbook and right after that you blogged about it. Then I made monster cookies last weekend and today you blogged about them! Except I used real peanut butter, no flour and I added coconut. Delicious!

My recipe is very similar to yours except I exchange the white flour for wheat flour — hey, then I think I am eating a healthier cookie!!

Oh, YUM! I have a quick question… my husband loves peanut butter, so I’d like to add peanut butter WITH the peanut butter chips. How much PB should I add? 1/2 cup?

I make the version with peanut butter and no flour. These ship well. I have sent them to Afghanistan on several occasions. Those boys really appreciate a good cookie! And a taste of home. I stick a slice of apple in the zip lock to keep them moist.

Ha, ha! I &*always* make cookies when I don’t feel like cooking what I “should” be cooking.

So I have been thinking about making these for the last 2 weeks, bought the M&Ms and hid them from my family 2 weeks ago, hid the raisins I add last week and I bought Oatmeal on Tuesday!!

Thanks for confirming that I just need to make these!!!

I want to try these so bad, but I don’t have a mixer! And I’m too lazy to do it without… LOL

I make these for my college kids….it is fairly similar to a breakfast bar if you think about it. They love them for breakfast and it saves them $$$!!

Yummy! I never thought to add rice krispies.

I have never heard of rice krispies either in a cookie…can’t wait to make them!

Oh, my family LOVES Monster Cookies!! Only, we don’t add flour either…and our recipe has peanut butter. But I love the idea of peanut butter chips! And the rice crispies sound awesome too!

This is just what I need today. Need to make these ASAP!

Here are some of my best tips for making ahead and storing in the freezer. Makes life much easier!

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