Monster Cookies! Need I say more? Who doesn’t love a good monster cookie. Peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chips (or other dairy free chips) and throw a few m&m’s or other mix-ins in there if you got ’em. I thought today I would share my super duper ridiculously delicious monster cookie recipe with y’all. This one is a winner through and through. Whenever I make them I get loads of oohs and ahhs and you will too, yahoo! Bring these babies to your next get-together and don’t forget the recipe…you will be asked. Just sayin’ 🙂
I mean look at these cookies…the perfect chewy monster cookie. Filled with lots of goodies to make them nice and thick…or should I say ‘hearty’. Breakfast anyone? Yup, don’t think for a second that I wouldn’t snag a few of these for breakfast, when the kids aren’t looking of course 🙂
If you are dairy-free you will want to omit the m&ms and use carob chips or good quality dark or semi-sweets chocolate chips as well as a butter alternative. I cannot sing my praises enough for the awesomeness that is Earth Balance butter substitute. And if you are gluten-free in your eating habits these days you will want to use gluten-free oats. Other than that, you can make them with regular butter and regular oats and they taste just as dee-lish…we’ve eaten these every which way so we know! Yes, we are martyrs in the cookie taste testing realm, you are welcome.
The Ultimate Monster Cookies {Gluten and Dairy Free Versions!}
Recipe Type: Gluten Free
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Serves: 2 dozen
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter (or butter substitute if dairy free)
- 4 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats (or gluten free oats if gluten free)
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup chocolate chips (or carob chips if dairy free)
- 1 cup mini m&ms
Instructions
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the eggs.
- Then add in both sugars, butter, oats, baking soda and vanilla and mix well.
- Add in any mix-ins you desire last keeping with the ratios above.
- Great mix-in options are chocolate chips, m&ms, walnut pieces, reese’s pieces, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips or even white chocolate chips.
- Drop large spoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes. Enjoy!
Brown sugar, white sugar, and eggs…I’m looking at the beginnings of a great cookie!
Then, in no particular order, add in baking soda, peanut butter, vanilla and your oats…I always have old-fashioned oats on hand to use in my baking as I find they work much better than quick or steel cut, but that is just my opinion.
If you are gluten-free, these are the oats I like to use…you will never taste the difference!
You will need 1/2 cup of butter…or butter substitute.
And lastly, add in 2 cups of your choice of mix-ins! My favorite dairy-free alternative is the Enjoy Life brand…they are seriously soooo good plus they are mini! If we are making them with dairy I’ll always add in m&ms of the mini variety as I find I can use less and get the same chocolatey outcome and it makes more room for other fun mix-in options, holla!
Mix it all up and drop LARGE, I mean like ice cream scoop large, balls of cookie dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.
Ooh…….Ahhh! Don’t they look devine!
Gotta love a good Monster Cookie!
Enjoy!
XOXO,
Trader Joe’s semi sweet chips are also Dairy free, as are Ghirardelli Semi sweets!
Mmmm…love both of those brands too! 🙂
Yes! They look amazing. I might have to jump off the no sweets bandwagon in order to make these!
Oh no! No sweets! That would be so hard for me!
Ah! love the eggs, thats what baking in my house looks like. I just might have to try these with chocolate and cranberries. Thanks for the recipe I pinned it!
I hope you love them Alecia!
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 4 post on Mar. 30, 2012. Thanks again.
Aww thank you so much for the link up!!
Thank you so much.These look yummy.
Anytime Jackie!! 🙂
How do you think these would turn out with an egg substitute? Maybe subbed with applesauce and egg replacer? Three eggs is a lot to sub for!!
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Hmm, that’s a great question! I never have a need to sub out eggs so I have to say I’ve never replaced them! If you try it please report back on how it went!!!
Has anyone tried them with Soynut butter instead of peanut butter?
I love, love, love these cookies! They were the perfect thing when I was eating dairy free and are still perfect now that I’m not. Gotta find some mini M&Ms now! 🙂
I just made these cookies and they are now my favorite cookies, SO SO Yummy! We did have a problem with all the ingredients sticking together. Have you had this problem before? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! 🙂
Yay!!! So glad you like the recipe! If your ingredients are not sticking together maybe add just a bit more of one or more of the wet ingredients. Sometimes different brands will change the consistency slightly but not the overall flavor or outcome!! Happy baking!!!
Thank you, I appreciate your response. I LOVE your bog! 🙂 Happy New Year!