There are two recipes for Monster Cookies in the Amish Cookbook I have. The original version calls for 12 eggs, 3 lbs. peanut butter, 18 cups of oatmeal. Yikes! Thankfully, Mrs. Leroy B. Schwartz didn’t want to be tied to her stove all day, so she cut the recipe down to a more reasonable amount.
Gather up your ingredients:
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
2 sticks butter
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 1/2 cups oatmeal
2 cups chocolate chips
2 cups M&Ms
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. corn syrup
2 tsp. baking soda
Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the peanut butter and eggs. Mix in the rest of the ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Don’t overbake.
This is how many cookies I had left 5 minutes after the first batch came out of the oven. Maybe I should have made the Monster version of this recipe given by Mrs. Jake E. Zook. Actually, I ended up having plenty of cookies for the kids to eat, some to serve to our small group and two gallon-size ziplock bags left over. Not bad for an afternoon in the kitchen.
Those sound so good!
i’ve had these and they are WONDERFUL!
These look great – I love M&Ms in cookies, I like them even better than chocolate chips!
Those look great…my hubby has fond memories of monster cookies made my his grandma. Think I’ll email him this recipe. Maybe he’ll make them for me.
These look yummy!
They look delicious!!
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Ya-hoo! I have been thinking of making “Monster Cookies” and needed a recipe! Perfect! They look really good 🙂
Thanks for sharing and I will get to making these tomorrow for my boys!!!
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Oh, these look sooooo delish!
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Yum! Those look fabulous! Aiden and I are going to have to give this recipe a try!
Those look so good!
can’t wait-these are in the oven as I’m typing. The kids certainly ready to try them!! thanks
Made these cookies over the weekend and my family loved them! So simple to throw together! Once again, excellent recipe!
Do you, by chance, have the original recipe?
These are SOOO good!
Made these tonight. YUMMY!
No flour?
do you put flour in these
No, there’s no flour in them.
I was hesitant to not put flour in this recipe but….I listened and left it out. I nearly put a little in, but threw a little extra oatmeal in instead. I made them bigger than the picture showed so I baked an extra minute. They are SO GOOD. My husband is getting these and a surprise pepperoni pizza!!! Cant wait til he gets home!!!! They are just like we used to get from an Amish woman we frequented that passed away years back. Thanks for sharing!!!
Maybe I read the 2 sticks of butter (1cup) wrong but my cookies ended up oily and flat. The original recipe calls for 3:1 peanut butter to butter ratio. This recipe is 1.5:1. I think the butter should be 1/4 cup?
Kids still loved it but they didn’t stick together and didn’t fluff up.