Monster Cookies
For your Friday, another of my er, DIET* recipes.
This cookie was one of those anomaly school foods that were actually spectacular. Do you have a missed food that your cafeteria managed to get just right? (My college had a cinnamon roll that I have yet to find its equal- and I don't even typically like cinnamon.) I use to eat these nearly every day- I know, healthy! But they are oh so addicting.
Monster Cookies
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon light syrup (such as Karo or pancake)
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 1/2 cups quick cooking oatmeal
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 6 ounces M&Ms
Cream butter and sugars in large bowl. Beat in eggs and vanilla, then peanut butter and syrup until well blended. Stir together baking soda, salt and oatmeal; beat into peanut butter mixture. If you like, you can put the bowl in the fridge/freezer for a few minutes to make the dough easier to handle (it will be sticky!)
Drop by teaspoon full (or use an ice cream scoop) onto ungreased cookie sheets and flatten slightly.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly golden on the edges. Let cool on the cookie sheet for few minutes to firm up then transfer to wire rack.
*DIET- Damn I Eat Three...
Comments
wow....those look sooooooo good! Oatmeal, PB...mmmm...
Posted by: stacey | April 27, 2007 01:35 PM
I was just thinking about monster cookies the other night when I was at the store! You have impeccable timing.
Posted by: Jessie | April 27, 2007 02:11 PM
My bf always laughs at me for pining for my school's vanilla pudding. I'm pretty sure it just came out of those giant cans, but I've never had the same anywhere else.
Posted by: lobstah | April 27, 2007 03:28 PM
Yum!
My school cafeteria ladies would make an awesome chocolate/peanut butter fudge bar (separate layers, not blended). I'm sure the over-saturated fat industrial peanut butter they got was what made it so good. It didn't hurt that one of the ladies was our classmate's mom.
Posted by: Nanc | April 27, 2007 04:58 PM
I just got done raving about these fabulous cookies on my blog (thank you thank you thank you for the package!) and here you post the recipe! Perfect!
To the other readers, I can honestly say that these cookies are DELICIOUS!
Posted by: Janelle | April 27, 2007 07:31 PM
Wow those look awesome - also that is a very pretty plate!
Posted by: jen | April 28, 2007 03:01 AM
Those look incredible! My favorite desert from the lunch room were these golden graham fudge squares. They were tiny golden grahams with fudge drizzled overtop of them to make them stick together... Mmmm Yummy. Everything else I could definately leave back in the lunch room. -=giggle=-
Posted by: Valerie | April 28, 2007 08:49 AM
(add this to ever growing list of recipes to make)
Posted by: emily elizabeth | April 28, 2007 09:51 AM
you know... if you look at the front cookie in the top picture... you can almost see monster-like features!
Really.
Posted by: Heather | April 28, 2007 12:17 PM
Yommie....looks delicious :) Thanks for sharing :D
Posted by: Frida | April 28, 2007 01:40 PM
Hey these are great!! I made them today and was a good girl and only ate two. Still a candidate for DIET though. Thanks for sharing!! DK
Posted by: DK | April 28, 2007 01:53 PM
Hmmm. Well, Hon WAS asking for some cookies to put in his lunch. Looks like I know what recipe I'll be trying in the morning.
As for foods schools got right? While it wasn't in my generation, my brother and I were often stopped in my parents home town by people reminising over my grandmothers cooking. She was a lunch lady back when that wasn't a joke job. I still have her recipe for butter streusal apple pie that makes people drool. Granted, I have to cut the quantities down, my kitchen just isn't cut out for anything that starts "Cut up 15 pounds of butter....."
Posted by: Jenna | April 29, 2007 12:51 AM
Ooooooh, I have made these. Yummy. Yummy!
Posted by: Ragged Around The Edges | April 29, 2007 07:58 AM
Thanks for the recipe, Jennifer. Alas, for me, DIET would stand for Damn I Eat Twenty! ;)
Posted by: connie | April 29, 2007 10:04 PM
Those look very tasty! You went to a better school than I did. We had nothing tasty.
Posted by: Brenda | April 30, 2007 12:45 AM
Oh, man, I so didn't need another sweet baked good recipe tempting me. But this just looks too good not to try. Thanks for sharing your recipe!
The thing my school cafeteria got right was yummy peanut butter balls. Come to think of it, those had oats in them too. Oh, they were soooo good.
Posted by: earthchick | April 30, 2007 09:48 AM
pier 1 plate!!
Posted by: jessica | May 15, 2007 10:52 PM