Happy Monday! I hope you had a GREAT weekend! Everyone is home from school today for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! YAY! That automatically makes it a good Monday!
Sooo, if you want to see how BRAVE I was this weekend. Follow this link to the 4 little Ferguson’s facebook page. This is not for the faint of heart! Click at your OWN risk, I had some people NOT too happy with me for posting. Gotta tell ya, that meat you buy in the store, didn’t originate in that pretty little package! Just sayin. 🙂
On to the recipe:
We have tried many a Monster Cookie recipe, but this one is hands down our favorite! I found it way back in the old days, before I knew what food blogs were all about from Kitchen Scrapbook. She was the first blog I ever followed, and she still has some of our favorite recipes!
This makes a HUGE batch! H_U_G_E!!!! Like 200 cookies.
Feel free to half, or quarter it, to meet your needs. FYI, we make a huge batch about once a year and freeze them between layers of wax paper in large Tupperware containers. That way we are ready for:
“MO-OOOOOM! I need 3 dozen cookies for school tomorrow!” 🙂
Monster Cookies
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- 12 whole Eggs
- 2 pounds White Sugar
- 2 pounds Brown Sugar
- 1 Tablespoon Vanilla
- 8 teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1 pound Butter Flavored Crisco
- 2 pounds Peanut Butter
- 18 cups Oatmeal
- 1 pound Chocolate Chips
- 1 pound M&Ms
Mix in order given. After oatmeal, slow down mixer and carefully add in chocolate chips and M&M’s. Drop by spoonfuls onto large baking sheets on parchment paper. Bake at 350* for 12 minutes. DO NOT OVERBAKE!
Allow to cool for a minute or two before transferring to a cooling rack. Eat, or freeze between layers of wax paper in a large airtight Tupperware, to eat at a later time.
Like I mentioned, this is a HUGE recipe, so divide or quarter as necessary.
Here are the half quantities for your convenience:
6 eggs
2 cups white sugar
2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
4 tsp. baking soda
1 cup Crisco
2 cups Peanut Butter
9 cups oatmeal
1/2 pound each chocolate chips and M&M’s
Happy Baking!
~T
4 little Fergusons 
The full recipe… 2 ounces of peanut butter? That is almost nothing. Typo? Maybe you mean 20 oz.?
Argh! Oh dear! No, that should say 2 POUNDS of Peanut Butter, or about 4 cups since half a recipe is 2. Silly me, thanks for catching that! I will go fix it both places. It’ll take a while for Tasty Kitchen to bring it back up for printing, so give it a bit. Thank you! 🙂
Can we use real butter in place of the Crisco?
Yes, I do that a lot too! Should be no problem!
The cool thing about this recipe is that it would be very easy to make gluten free (there is gluten free oatmeal)!! Thanks for posting- I’m going to give it a try. Though I might use 1/4 of the recipe.
This is my favorite cookie recipe, I have to half it just so it will fit in my mixer and i have the largest one for home! I love that you freeze them as well. I always freeze my cookies, it makes them more moist. :-). Enjoy your day with the kiddos!
Hi Tonya! I wondered about how someone would do this huge of a batch at home. We are blessed to have access to industrial sized mixer, baking sheets and convection ovens. Phew! 🙂
I spent part of yesterday looking for a good oatmeal peanut-butter Chocolate Chip M&M recipe and here it is how funny you should post this today:)
I was wanting to use up a bag of” peanut butter” M&M’S that have been starring at me.
I love the idea of making a Hugh batch and having them in the freezer I’m a freezer kind of girl!
Thanks so much and enjoy your day with the kids my hubby is off today as well for the Holiday!
I made Monster Cookies recently. I actually froze most of them after I scooped them out into balls. I baked them when I wanted them during the week! It was AWESOME! I will do this from now on!
Ooo, great idea!
Freezing the cookie dough is a major time saver for me. I will whip up a couple different recipes of cookies, stick them in the freezer and then pull the dough out whenever i need some cookies made. Limits the mess to one day instead of everytime you make cookies. Also, if anyone loves peanut butter I subsitute reeces pieces for the m&m’s and peanut butter chips instead of chocolate chips. 🙂
In this post…for me…M is for Mom. =) My mama made these often when I was growing up – the full batch. Always cracked me up to think of 18(!) c. of oatmeal! Yours look fabulous. MMM good! How sweet of you to share the halved measurements.
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mmm, monster cookies….always the best!
Is there really no flour in this recipe?
Yup, the oatmeal acts as the binder instead! 🙂