SaveSave Monster Cookies are made in different ways with all kinds of ingredients. I love this recipe because it has all my favorites in one place – creamy peanut butter, M&M’s, chocolate chips, and oats. They are buttery, soft, and delicious.
Combine dry ingredients. Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt until fully combined.Mix wet ingredients. Beat together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Then add peanut butter and mix well.Add eggs. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla.Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients all at once at a low speed. Once you have no risk of flying flour, speed up the mixer just a little and mix until the flour has just disappeared.Add chocolate and oats. Stir in oats, chocolate chips, and M&M’s.Bake. Scoop into one-inch balls and place on a baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes, rotating halfway through.
Measuring flour. When you measure your flour, start by whisking it in the container you store it in to loosen in up. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level it off. If you use your measuring cup to scoop from the flour container you will likely get packed flour or too much flour. This will result in a crumbly or dry cookie.Mixing flour. Most cookie recipes suggest that you mix in the flour a little at a time and advise that you not over-mix. I recently read that you should add it all at once, mixing in slowly at first so it doesn’t go everywhere, and then just mixing until the flour disappears. This lowers the risk of overstimulating the gluten which can lead to a dense cookie.
Make sure your baking soda and baking powder are fresh. To test that, put a little baking soda in some vinegar and it should bubble and react immediately. Repeat the process with the baking powder and water. If they don’t react right away, it means that it is time to replace them. Typically baking soda and baking powder need to be replaced every six months.Ensure that your butter is room temperature. Room temperature butter means that you can gently press your finger into it and make a dent, but it is not so soft that it goes all the way through. To bring your butter to room temperature quickly, cut it up into one-inch pieces and leave it sitting out on the counter. Please note that room temperature butter is actually still cold to the touch.Room-temperature eggs are important. To quickly bring them to room temperature, Get a bowl of lukewarm water and leave the eggs in there for a few minutes.Thoroughly whisk your dry ingredients. The last thing you want is a patch of salt in one cookie.Use a cookie scoop. This will ensure that all of your cookies are the same size and cookie evenly.
Freezing Monster Cookies
This Monster Cookie recipe is great to freeze as either dough or as the baked cookies.
Freezing Cookie Dough
To freeze these cookies before baking, follow the recipe up to the point of baking.
Freezing Baked Cookies
