Soft Monster Cookies

Soft, chewy, and moist in every bite. 

Monster cookies are peanut butter cookies with oats, M&M's, and chocolate chips. After failing in the kitchen so many times, one recipe after another, I managed to find the PERFECT recipe! You have no idea how happy I was when I finally found the recipe to the perfect cookies. I baked 5 batches of cookies, they were either too dry, too cakey (How I hate that!), too flat, falling apart, or too hard! The 6th batch turned out to be moist, soft, chewy, and just the right consistency! 

I'm not sure why these cookies are called Monster cookies, maybe because they are a mix of so many things, flour, oats, M&M's, peanut butter, and chocolate chips. But I can tell you one thing, these cookies taste like heaven! In the picture above are small cookies that I made, just roll the dough into small balls and bake. Or if you wish you can make standard sized cookies by scooping 2 tbsp of dough and rolling it into balls then bake. (picture below)

And the best part? these cookies stay soft for days and days! It is also a good idea to freeze rolled dough balls to bake later.

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Monster Cookies Recipe

Serves: 32 small cookies or 16 regular cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 2/3 cup peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 1/4 all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup quick oats
• 1/2 cup M&M's
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)
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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 220°.
2. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. In a medium bowl cream butter with sugars using a hand mixer. Mix in egg, vanilla and peanut butter.
4. Using a spoon mix in baking soda and flour but do not over mix.
5. Fold in M&M's and chocolate chips. (or if you prefer, add them to the top of the rolled dough balls)
6. Roll dough balls with your hands and place onto prepared tray. Bake for 8-10 minutes. After the cookies come out of the oven, gently press them down with your fingers if you don't like cakey cookies. The cookies will look under baked, but do not worry about that as they will firm up as they cool.

Store cookies in a sealed container in room temperature for up to 1 week.