Line a baking sheet with parchment paper (helps the cookies from sticking and to not over spread while baking). You can use any ones you want, I like to pour a bit from each of my containers. Grab Christmas themed sprinkles and pour them into a small bowl. But feel free to swap that out with milk chocolate chips if you like those better. You'll need Christmas m&m's (a bag of just the red and green m&m's) and semi sweet chocolate chips. Stir it all together until it's combined. Stir in the quick oats to the flour then pour all of this into the sugar mixture. Grab a sepparate bowl and sift together the flour, baking soda and salt. Mix in the egg and make sure it's fully combined. Then add in the white and brown sugars and cream that together. Cream together the butter and peanut butter first until it's all one. To make them look extra festive and fancy, you can press an m&m and chocolate chip in to the top of each cookie, as shown below. Monster cookies don't spread as much as a traditional chocolate chip cookie, so if you'd like a flatter cookie you can press them down with your hand a bit prior to baking. This recipe is for a traditional cookie scoop size. As soon as the cookie dough comes together you can put them right in the oven. So that way you have the perfect cookie baking day. Here are some of my best tips when making these cookies. My thought behind all the festive mix-ins is the more the merrier. They are huge!Īnd they are monster looking thanks to all the mix-ins. When you pull a batch of these Christmas monster cookies from the oven you can definitely understand why they are called monster cookies. And on the subject of peanut butter (because you can never have too much peanut butter) I would highly suggest these buckeye balls. If you love peanut butter cookies, these Christmas peanut butter cookie bars would also be a good one to try. Of course we added every single Christmas sprinkle in the pantry. Here is the regular non-Christmas monster cookie recipe. This recipe was first published on 12/15/20.Ĭhristmas monster cookies are all about having fun! My kids love to make monster cookies and we knew we needed a Christmas variation. Today is day 8 of the '12 days of Christmas Cookies' here on Modern Crumb! If you'd like, you can sprinkle colored sugar on the cookies before baking, or decorate with frosting after cooled.Celebrate the holidays with a batch of these delicious Christmas monster cookies! They are a peanut butter cookie mixed with oats, chocolate chips, m&m's and topped with festive sprinkles. Place on a prepared cookie sheet, lined with parchment paper, or a baking mat. Put dough in icebox to chill (at least one hour).Īfter chilling the dough, roll it out to 1/4" thick. Mix everything together either with the fork or with your hands. Measure 1 teaspoon of salt and sprinkle over flour and baking powder. Measure 1 teaspoon baking powder and sprinkle over flour. Measure 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour and pour over mixture in bowl. With fork, blend everything in the bowl together. Measure 1 teaspoon vanilla and pour over mixture. With fork, squash butter and sugar together until they are blended.Ĭrack shells of two eggs and pour eggs over mixture in bowl. Put 3/4 cup of butter or margarine (that's a stick and a half) into your mixing bowl.
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