Historical Romance Cookie Hop: Monster Cookies!
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I love Christmas. It’s my favorite time of year. The tree goes up early and comes down late in my house. My sister, niece, and I take a day to make cookies: peanut butter with chocolate kisses, pretzels with chocolate kisses and M&Ms, cut-out sugar cookies, and monster cookies. The latter is what I’m sharing today.
Monster Cookie recipe
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats 1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup M&M candies
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream the butter and sugar together really well—at least 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add peanut butter and mix well. Add egg and vanilla and mix.
- In a separate mixing bowl stir together the flour (be careful to measure correctly, spooning the flour into a measuring cup, then leveling off), oats, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Add to the wet mixture and mix to combine. Stir in chocolate chips and M&M’s.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, or a little longer if you make them bigger than a 1inch cookie scoop. Don’t over bake–they will look just set.
- Remove them from the oven and allow them to cool completely on the pan.We usually take turns stirring the batter. It’d definitely a workout! Feel free to substitute/add other ingredients. We’ve experimented with butterscotch and peanut butter chips too. Add whatever tickles your fancy, just DON’T overbake.
Christmas Past and Present
While parts of Christmas change over the centuries, there are aspects that will always remain. Christmas has always been a time for gathering with community and family. The traditional foods and games may be different but the atmosphere, the camaraderie, is always there. If you’d like to mix the past and present, consider making syllabub or hot buttered rum for your get-together this year.
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