Day 15 of 25 Days of Christmas My Urban Oven Style!
Another cookie recipe for you! You know I really doubted my abilities to come up with new Christmas cookie ideas after doing my 25 Days of Cookie back in 2011. But I surprise myself every time I create something new.
This recipe was born from this bright blue recipe car in my files that I was once given to me from my uncle, Jay. I think he gave it to me 15 years or more ago. He really loved the Monster Cookies that his farmer friends wife made. Since I have always loved to bake he asked her for the recipe to give to me. His real intention was to get me to make the cookies for him.
I have never made those cookies for him.
This past Thanksgiving he asked me to when I was going to make him Monster Cookies. Man, he doesn’t forget anything in 15 years.
I pulled out the recipe, thinking about him, the other night. I remembered instantly why I had never made them.
The recipe called for 1 lb of butter, 2 lbs of brown sugar, 2 lbs of white sugar, 2 lbs of peanut butter, a dozen eggs, 18 cups of oatmeal, 1 lb of M&Ms, 1 lb of Chocolate chips, vanilla, corn syrup, and baking soda.
I seriously don’t think I have the arm strength to mix a recipe with 15 lbs of ingredients. Let alone a bowl big enough. This woman the recipe came from really knows how to make a recipe! True farmers wife if you ask me. Pretty sure she was feeding her whole family, and all the farm hands with this recipe. For a MONTH.
True Monster Cookie recipe for sure.
So in true recipe experimenting fashion, I decided to tackle this recipe, but on a much smaller scale. And since it is Christmas, I had to use Christmas themed Chocolate Chips. These can always be made with regular chocolate chips and M&Ms. But that is no fun this time of year.
Another fun fact about these cookies I realized is that they have no flour in them. Which with the rest of the ingredient list, makes them Gluten Free. Double score on this recipe.
I will be making another batch of these and wrapping them up for my uncle this Christmas. Just my version, not hers. I hope he likes loves them.
Remember to stay tuned for the last 10 days of 25 Days of Christmas My Urban Oven Style!
Look back at the last few days:
Day 1: 25 Days of Christmas My Urban Oven Style
Day 2: Lactose Free Coconut Hot Cocoa with Coconut Whipped Cream
Day 3: A Doggy Bed for Christmas
Day 4: Candy Cane Pretzel Cupcakes
Day 5: 10 Christmas Gift Ideas for an Aspiring Baker
Day 6: 2015 Christmas Tree Contest
Day 8: Thumbprint Date Cookies
Day 9: 10 Gift Ideas for the Female Entrepreneur in Your Life
Day 10: Christmas Gift Wrapping Ideas
Day 11: Cumin & Rosemary Roasted Carrots
Day 13: Brown Sugar & Bacon Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Day 14: Sriracha Bacon Shrimp Sugar Babies
XoXo-
Rachel
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Christmas Monster Cookies
- 1/2 cup butter (soft)
- 1 cups brown sugar
- 1 cups white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 4 1/2 cups oatmeal
- 1 10 oz package Holiday morsels or regular chocolate chips
- 1 cup white morsels or m&ms
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In stand mixer or with electric mixer, cream together sugar and butter.
- Add eggs and vanilla, mix.
- Add peanut butter, mix.
- Add oats and baking soda, mix.
- Stir in by hand chocolate and white chocolate morsels.
- Spoon onto baking sheets.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Allow to cool on baking pans for 2 minutes before transferring to tinfoil or cookie cooling racks.
Comments
11 responses to “Christmas Monster Cookies”
These are like the perfect cookie- I feel like they’d be a huge hit among a large crowd! 🙂
http://katelynmcphee.blogspot.ca
The Hubby took a tin of these to work today, and they were gone before noon he said. Yes, a crowd hit for sure! 🙂
These look amazing. I’m going to have to add this to my holiday baking list for sure!
♡ Julia | lifeofjules.com
Thanks Julia!!
I feel like you wrote this specifically for me! Monster cookies are one of my favorite cookies! I just wish they were a lot lower in calories. ;o)
I hear you on the calories girl!! These are yummy, so you should try them out 🙂
I haven’t tried a chocolate chip, oatmeal, peanut butter combo before but it sounds delish!!
-M
http://www.violetroots.com
Monster cookies are kILLER! So yummy. Thanks for posting the recipe.
Loving these!
Must. Make. Immediately. Seriously though, these look great! 🙂
Thanks Amber!! The last one got eaten today!