Monster Cookies

These are our favorite cookies and since I made a batch recently I thought I'd share the recipe. They are hearty, flavorful, and who doesn't like a mix of M&Ms, chocolate chips, and butterscotch chips? I'm a huge oatmeal fan already so the combination of so many favorites is certainly a hit for me. The trick is to bake them until they're just faintly brown but mostly look undercooked. That way they stay a little gooey on the inside. We enjoy eating these (and most other cookies) frozen.




A family friend gave us a copy of her family cookbook for our wedding, and we've enjoyed great meals, desserts, and appetizers from it ever since. This is one of her recipes, with a couple of modifications.

• 2 1/4 C brown sugar
• 2 1/4 C white sugar
• 2 sticks margarine
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 6 eggs
• 1 Tbl corn syrup
• 2 1/4 C peanut butter
• 9 C oatmeal (4 C quick, 5 C rolled)
• 4 tsp baking soda
• 1 bag chocolate chips
• 1 bag butterscotch chips
• 1 C M&Ms

Cream sugars and margarine. Add eggs and beat, then add peanut butter and corn syrup. Stir in the rest of the ingredients. Drop by large tablespoons onto a cookie sheet. I sometimes leave out the M&Ms from the mix and press a couple into the top of each cookie before I bake them. Bake at 350 degrees from 8-10 minutes.

As this makes a "monster" batch I often half it and still end up with 5 dozen or so cookies :).