Valentine's Day Monster Cookies
Soft and chewy Monster Cookies filled with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips and M&ms. They have all the best cookie add-ins rolled in one delicious cookie recipe. The perfect peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe. Soft, chewy, easy & quick to make.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened, unsalted
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste optional (replace with more extract)
- 3/4 cup oats
- 2 1/4 cup flour all purpose, spooned and leveled
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup Valentine's M&Ms
- flaky sea salt optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350° F and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, add your softened butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and sugar. Stir until well combined.
- Add your egg, egg yolk, vanilla extract and vanilla bean paste. (If you don't have vanilla bean paste, add a dash more of vanilla extract.) Stir together until light and fluffy in texture.
- Then, add all of your dry ingredients, including your flour, baking soda, oats and salt. Stir until just combined. If your dough seems too dry, add 2 tbsp of milk.
- Add your chocolate chips, and m&ms reserving some for the tops of the cookies. Stir until just combined.
- Scoop out your cookie dough into 1-2 inch balls and place on your baking sheets lined with parchment paper a few inches apart. (to prevent them from spreading into each other) Top with additional chocolate chips and M&ms.
- Bake at 350℉ for 8-10 minutes. Remove from oven and using a round cookie cutter, scoot around the cookies to make them round and all the same size. Top with flaky sea salt. (optional)
- Let cool, share and enjoy!!