Monster Cookies are amazing. They’re called Monster Cookies because they are huge! These delicious Taste of Home peanut butter cookies have M&Ms, butterscotch chips, peanuts, and oatmeal. What’s not to like with that combination??!! Your kids will love these cookies. If you love peanut butter and chocolate with butterscotch thrown into the mix you need to make these.

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Monster Cookies are great for holiday baking because everyone loves these cookies. They are so filled with chocolaty goodness, peanut butter goodness, peanut goodness, oatmeal goodness and butterscotch goodness! You can use Christmas colored M&M’s or regular.

Either way they turn out great. Monster Cookies are also great for birthday celebrations, tailgating parties or any time you have family gatherings.

If you’re looking for a dynamite cookie to wow your family or company, then Monster Cookies will sure do it! Give them a try. You’ll be in seventh heaven!

When I initially posted this recipe in June 2012, I had only been blogging for a couple of weeks. I remade the recipe for a silent auction for our school later in October that same year. But the pictures were taken with a poor quality iPhone 3 camera. IPhone’s have their purpose and the later models are better, but they’re not conducive to food photography.

As a result, my pictures were blurry, grainy and dark. I recently remade this recipe (November 2015) for some friends who are going to be moving into our new neighborhood this week. I actually made the cookies and froze them. This time I used regular M&Ms (my favorite over holiday colored M&Ms). But other than that, I pretty much followed the initial recipe that our family loves.

These Monster-sized Cookies are filled with peanut butter, butterscotch chips, M&Ms, peanuts and oatmeal!

Here’s a look at these fabulous Monster Cookies.

Monster Cookies are great for birthdays and tailgating parties.

Here’s what I did.

I used these ingredients.

Soften butter and put in large mixing bowl. Add peanut butter, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, vanilla and baking soda.

Cream mixture with mixer until well mixed.

Add oatmeal, M&Ms, butterscotch chips and salted peanuts.

Stir ingredients together to combine. Allow ingredients to rest 10 minutes before adding flour.

Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens baked goods.

Stir well with a wooden spoon to combine.

Scoop mixture with an ice cream or cookie scoop and place several inches apart on greased cookie sheets. Press additional M&Ms into the top of each cookie.

Bake cookies between 12-15 minutes or until done. 

Monster Cookies have great peanut butter taste.

Here’s a close up view of these tasty treats. The tastes of chocolate, peanut butter, peanuts, and butterscotch chips permeate every bite. Yum, yum, delicious!

Here’s the recipe.

MONSTER COOKIES

(Recipe adapted from Taste of Home Ultimate Cookie Collection Cookbook)

Monster Cookies

Teresa Ambra

These Monster-sized cookies are filled with peanut butter, peanuts, M&M's, butterscotch chips and oatmeal for a big whopper-sized taste. Great for holiday baking, tailgating parties and birthday celebrations.

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Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars

Cuisine American

Servings 36

Calories 236 kcal

Equipment

• 2 18x26" cookie sheet pans
• 1 large mixing bowl
• 1 electric mixer
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 spatula
• measuring cups
• measuring spoons
• 1 1/4 cup cookie scoop

Ingredients

  

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• 1 cup peanut butter creamy or crunchy
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar packed
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 4 cups oatmeal
• 1 cup m&ms plus more to place on top of the cookies
• 1 cup Nestle's Toll House butterscotch chips plus more to place on top of the cookies
• 1 cup peanuts salted
• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods

Instructions

 

• In a large mixing bowl, cream peanut butter, butter, sugars, egg, baking soda and vanilla with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Stir in oats, M&Ms, butterscotch chips and peanuts, (the dough will be crumbly).
• Allow mixture to rest 10 minutes.
• Add flour and stir to combine.
• This may take 4-5 minutes to get the dough completely stirred.
• Scoop with a one-quarter cup cookie scoop.
• Place dough on greased baking sheets, about 9 cookies on each sheet.
• Gently flatten cookies.
• Press a few extra M&Ms on top.
• Bake at 325˚ for 12-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
• Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks every seven minutes of baking time.
• Remove to wire racks to cool.

Notes

NOTE: My whopper-sized cookies took about 18-22 minutes to bake. Your oven may cook these cookies faster.

 

Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.

 

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Nutrition

Calories: 236kcalCarbohydrates: 32gProtein: 5gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 24mgSodium: 139mgPotassium: 113mgFiber: 2gSugar: 21gVitamin A: 119IUVitamin C: 0.03mgCalcium: 28mgIron: 1mg

Keyword butterscotch chips, cookies, dessert, M&Ms, oatmeal, oatmeal cookie, peanut butter, peanuts

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Consider making up a batch of Monster Cookies for your holiday baking.

Monster Cookies are great for tailgating parties. Everyone always raves over these cookies.

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Monster Cookies

Teresa Ambra

These Monster-sized cookies are filled with peanut butter, peanuts, M&M’s, butterscotch chips and oatmeal for a big whopper-sized taste. Great for holiday baking, tailgating parties and birthday celebrations.

No ratings yet

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Prep Time 30 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 45 minutes mins

Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars

Cuisine American

Servings 36

Calories 236 kcal

Equipment

• 2 18×26" cookie sheet pans
• 1 large mixing bowl
• 1 electric mixer
• 1 wooden spoon
• 1 spatula
• measuring cups
• measuring spoons
• 1 1/4 cup cookie scoop

Ingredients

  

1x2x3x

• 1 cup peanut butter creamy or crunchy
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar packed
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 4 cups oatmeal
• 1 cup m&ms plus more to place on top of the cookies
• 1 cup Nestle’s Toll House butterscotch chips plus more to place on top of the cookies
• 1 cup peanuts salted
• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods

Instructions

 

• In a large mixing bowl, cream peanut butter, butter, sugars, egg, baking soda and vanilla with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Stir in oats, M&Ms, butterscotch chips and peanuts, (the dough will be crumbly).
• Allow mixture to rest 10 minutes.
• Add flour and stir to combine.
• This may take 4-5 minutes to get the dough completely stirred.
• Scoop with a one-quarter cup cookie scoop.
• Place dough on greased baking sheets, about 9 cookies on each sheet.
• Gently flatten cookies.
• Press a few extra M&Ms on top.
• Bake at 325˚ for 12-15 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
• Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks every seven minutes of baking time.
• Remove to wire racks to cool.

Notes

NOTE: My whopper-sized cookies took about 18-22 minutes to bake. Your oven may cook these cookies faster.

 

Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.

 

^© Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen

Nutrition

Calories: 236kcalCarbohydrates: 32gProtein: 5gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 24mgSodium: 139mgPotassium: 113mgFiber: 2gSugar: 21gVitamin A: 119IUVitamin C: 0.03mgCalcium: 28mgIron: 1mg

Keyword butterscotch chips, cookies, dessert, M&Ms, oatmeal, oatmeal cookie, peanut butter, peanuts

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!