Monster Cookies – Sugar Spun Run

My thick, delicate and chewy monster cookies are loaded with enjoyable add-ins like peanut butter, chocolate sweet, oats, and butterscotch chips! Simply half-hour of chilling! Recipe features a how-to video!

Why You’ll Love This Monster Cookie Recipe

• Tons of texture! Chewy oats, melty chocolate, crisp sweet…these monster cookies have it all.
• Mushy and chewy. The hot button is to sit back the dough (simply half-hour!) and barely underbake your cookies.
• Customizable: Be happy to change issues up and use no matter add-ins you want! Toffee bits, chopped sweet bars, and caramel chips are only a few choices outdoors the norm.
• Makes BIG cookies–these are monster cookies, in any case! Be happy to double the recipe if 15 cookies isn’t sufficient for you.

I’m undecided who named monster cookies or what they have been pondering after they did so, however in so some ways this identify is becoming.

Monster cookies, as a result of they’re one thing of a monstrosity to the cookie world. A jumble of peanut butter, oatmeal, and chocolate chip cookies rolled into one Frankenstein’s creation of a cookie.

Monster cookies, as a result of they’re fairly actually monstrous in measurement–we’re speaking practically ¼ cup of dough per cookie!

Monster cookies, as a result of they flip you right into a legit cookie monster (I ate half the tray of cookies earlier than they may even end cooling 🙈).

Regardless of the true reasoning behind the identify, these beloved cookies are typically a crowd favourite wherever I deliver them. They’re like a cross between my peanut butter cookies, oatmeal cookies, and M&M cookies–what’s to not like? These are easy to make and a lot enjoyable to eat!

Substances

Don’t be overwhelmed by the quantity of components right here; the cookie base is easy, and most of what you’re seeing beneath are our flavorful/textural add-ins!

• Butter. I take advantage of unsalted butter and add salt individually; this helps me higher management the salt on this monster cookie recipe. When you solely have salted butter, then you should utilize that and scale back the salt to ½ teaspoon.
• Brown sugar. Both mild brown or darkish brown sugar works nicely right here (darkish brown sugar will yield a cookie that’s darker in look and richer/sweeter). My private desire is to make use of a mix of each.
• Cornstarch. Like in a lot of my cookie recipes, cornstarch will preserve the monster cookies good and delicate (chewy, moderately than cakey) and prevents them from spreading to a lot within the oven.
• Peanut butter. I take advantage of creamy, however crunchy will work too if you would like much more texture.
• Add-ins. M&M candies (I truly use Unreal model candies), butterscotch chips, and semisweet chocolate chips, are only a few of my favourite additions to this monster cookie recipe You possibly can swap out the sweet items for a distinct chopped up sweet (I’ve used chopped up Rolos earlier than, simply preserve the caramel contained in the cookie dough as a lot as attainable whenever you scoop it!), or substitute totally different chocolate chips. I favored the mix of half semisweet and half butterscotch chips, however peanut butter chips or caramel chips would even be nice additions.

SAM’S TIP: For a bakery-style look, save a number of of your add-ins for urgent into the tops of the cookies after baking. Transfer shortly, although, you should gently press them into the floor inside 1-2 minutes of eradicating the cookies from the oven.

That is simply an outline of the components I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!

How one can Make Monster Cookies

1. Cream the butter, sugar, and peanut butter collectively in a big bowl.
2. Stir within the egg and vanilla extract.
3. Whisk collectively the dry components in a separate bowl, then regularly add them to the moist components.
4. Fold in your add-ins till included, then cowl and chill the dough for not less than half-hour. When you’d like, you’ll be able to chill the dough for as much as 3 days after this step, however notice that the dough turns into tougher to scoop (you’ll doubtless must let it sit at room temperature to melt a bit earlier than scooping) and the cookies are likely to unfold much less.

5. Scoop and roll your cookie dough into 3 tablespoon-sized balls and place in your baking sheet.
6. Bake, then let the cookies cool utterly on their baking sheets earlier than having fun with.

SAM’S TIP: Don’t over-bake your monster cookies! When you do, they’ll end up dry and crumbly as an alternative of soppy and chewy. I like to recommend baking till the perimeters are simply beginning to flip a lightweight golden brown, then eradicating. The facilities will nonetheless be a bit underdone, however that is nice since they’ll end cooking on the new baking sheet outdoors the oven. This makes for cookies that keep delicate for days.

Continuously Requested Questions

Monster cookies are excellent for the cookie monster in all of us 💙🍪

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Recipe initially printed February 2019.

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