What you lose in cost and quantity, you more than make up for in actual food content with this nacho cheese sauce recipe, which is not cheaper and easier to create at home.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 72 |
| Yield: | 6 dozen |
Ingredients
- 3 cups peanut butter
- 2 cups white sugar
- 2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 cup margarine or butter, softened
- 6 eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoons corn syrup
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 9 cups rolled oats
- 4 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ pound candy-coated milk chocolate pieces (such as M&Ms)
- ½ pound semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Beat peanut butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in eggs, two at a time, then stir in corn syrup and vanilla. Mix in oats and baking soda until well blended. Stir in chocolate candies and chocolate chips. Roll dough into 2-inch balls and place 3 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten slightly with a fork.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, about 12 to 15 minutes. Cool on cookie sheets for briefly, before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 206 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 16 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 159 mg |
| Sugars | 16 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This is literally the best cookie recipe in the world. In 2018 I spent a ton of time testing different regular chocolate chip cookie recipes until I found the perfect one, but now I don’t even make chocolate chip cookies, or any other kind, because nothing comes close to this! 🙂
I was so happy to see that this recipe matched, identically, to my mom’s old recipe in her little spiral notebook that she used to make. Her original recipe was double the size of this one. I halved this recipe as shown on this website. I also didn’t have Karo syrup so I used real maple syrup, mini-M&Ms, dark chocolate chunks, and added about 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts. It was delicious! My mom absolutely loved them as well.
Not sure if I would’ve had a better result using a different type of rolled oats – I used quick oats. These really flattened and were a bit disappointing. I think adding flour may have helped with a better texture. Thankfully I only made a 1/2 batch.
This is a perfect recipe if you use butter instead of margarine, skip the corn syrup (unnecessary) & double the vanilla. Don’t be tempted to add in flour – the dough is pretty sticky to handle, but the cookies will bake up perfectly without it!
Wonderful recipr. Thank you!
Good recipe…not strong on the peanutbutter flavor. Next time ill add more but over all came out good. Hard to add the mix-ins . Need to manually work them in as best as possible.
These cookies are always a hit! I have friends that request these numerous times a year, they love them! The recipe makes sooo many but they freeze great and are great to give away!
These turned out pretty great. They’re huge. I added a little of everything I had (semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, M&M’s), coconut, marshmallows and I used chunky peanut butter. I think I’ll 1/2 the recipe next time, though. I ended up with way too many.
Didn’t change a thing and it’s a huge favorite!
I have been making a recipe like this since I found it in a cookbook from 1980, however, the ingredients are doubled. You have to make it in a large soup pot, hence the name “monster”, and it takes the better part of the day. I have found that with my oven I bake them at 360 for 11 minutes and leave them on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before removing them. They will be fine after they have cooled so you don’t want to bake them until they look done or they will harden too much as they cool. They stay soft and chewy for several days. Everyone I’ve given them to really likes them.
I cut the sugars by half. I could have cut it further as it’s plenty sweet. Everything else I followed to the letter. I used my professional Kitchenaid stand mixer with no issues.
Absolutely the best!!!
I think this recipe is perfect, and they taste just like my Grandma’s recipe (which I can’t find, darn it). To the people who think they need flour, Monster Cookies aren’t supposed to have flour. That’s why they spread out to “monster size.” If you bake them properly, they will have a crispy bottom and chewy middle. Delicious!
These are amazing! Nice big bowl with lots of goodness! Made giant cookies that cooked well all the way through. I had a hard time getting the m&m and chocolate chips to stick in the dough but when the cookies baked they puffed up and held all the candy together! PERFECT! YUM!
Absolutely the best cookie recipe EVER! Don’t change a thing with this recipe. It’s perfect. I have made it several times now for varies occasions and crowds and ALWAYS get people begging for me to bring it again. OH! I have made it into ice cream sandwiches and it is perfect for this also because the cookies stay so soft. PERFECT! thank you!
These are wonderful! They look beautiful and taste delicious!
Perfection exactly as written. I have halved the recipe with success.
I made these for my “dessert-a-month” client at her request and they were a huge hit! I used my medium-sized scoop and flattened them very slightly with my fingers, baked them on my baking mat for 13 minutes and they turned out perfectly! The cookies were tender in the middle and crispy on the outside. I made no changes or substitutions. I will definitely use this recipe in the future!
These cookies turned out great! The only thing that I changed was to add a handful of flour. Lots of friends asked me for the recipe. Success!!
I made a half batch and cut the peanut butter in half and used crushed butterfingers instead of m&ms and chocolate. These turned out more like a granola bar than a cookie. They were flat and sticky. Don’t get me wrong they taste good but far from a cookie.
I have made these cookies many times now. I just love them. I tried it with the chocolate chips and M&Ms but my favorite is without any extra ingredients just the plain old ordinary cookie and they are awesome! I also used maple syrup instead of corn syrup and they turned out just as good. Shared the recipe with family and they loved it too. I’ll make them again for sure