Monster Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup butter

  room temperature
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cups old fashioned rolled oats
• 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup M&Ms

  divided

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• 2 Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
• 3 Cream peanut butter, butter, and sugars together in a stand mixer. Or use a bowl
  and hand mixer.
• 4 Add the eggs and vanilla to the mixing bowl and mix again.
• 5 Next, add the oats, flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, combine
  thoroughly.
• 6 Add the chocolate chips and ¾ cup of the M&M's to the dough. Stir with a spoon
  this time so the chocolate stays in whole pieces. Be sure to reserve ¼ cup of
  the M&M's to press into the tops of the cookies once they are baked.
• 7 Form heaping tablespoons of dough into balls, place on parchment lined baking
  sheet.
• 8 Now flatten them a little bit.
• 9 Bake in the preheated 350 degrees F oven for 12 - 15 minutes.
• 10 Remove from oven, and press the rest of the M&M's into the tops of the cookies.
• 11 Use a spatula to slide the baked cookies onto a wire rack and allow them to cool
  completely.
• 12 Serve with a big old Monster cookie loving smile!

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