Monster cookies will give you the answer you are looking for if you want a cookie with a bit of everything. They can be considered an equivalent of sauce or soup when you talk about baking items. All sorts of goodies can be added to them to make cookies of your taste. Just like the name, monster cookies look the way the name looks and it is well loaded with candy pieces and chocolate chips.
The cookies are a bit crunchy thanks to the candy that is inside and they have the correct balance of chewiness. You can make your monster cookies in different ways, but most of those recipes usually have peanut butter.
We understand that you might have allergies to peanuts and it is also possible that you are short of peanut butter as of the time you want to make your monster cookies. You should definitely still be able to make them even without your peanut butter. Due to the color, kids love the cookies and adults also cannot seem to resist them.
The Best Substitute For Peanut Butter
To get the same chewy and gooey texture as other monster cookies, we have added a bit more butter. If you want the flavor to be nuttier without the peanuts or you don’t even have any peanut butter, your peanut butter could be replaced by adapting another recipe for your monster cookie. You could also use almond butter if you can eat nuts.
Soynut butter, tahini, coconut butter, or sunflower seed butter are a few nut-free replacements. All these ingredients will give similar textures to the texture with peanut butter, but the flavor of your cookies may be altered. Using shredded coconut and coconut butter could give you a monster cookie that is more coconut flavored.
Monster cookies are easily adaptable, that is one great thing concerning them, different add-ins and flavors can be used to adapt them. Even though you can use other nut butter to easily replace peanut butter, you could simply just use butter. In case you don’t have butter that will be enough for you, you could use shortening as a replacement.
Monster Cookie Ingredients and Mix-Ins
The recipe we want to consider in this article is still at the least chocolate chips and classic m&ms, but you can do anything you wish with the cookies. You could easily add more crunchiness or more flavor to them if you want to. Ensure the mix-ins should be kept at about less than ¼ cup each. Pretzel pieces, crushed potato chips, or Rice Krispies are a few crunchy mix-ins.
Almost all monster cookie recipes use M&Ms and you can find different types out there on the market. You could also try to be creative by trying almond, mocha, caramel, or mint chocolate. Different types of festive colors could be used for different seasons and holidays.
Raisins will give you the additional chewiness you want in the cookie and they work excellently well with your oats. Spices such as nutmeg or cinnamon can be added and you could use maple or almond to replace vanilla extra. Select your extracts or spices on the basis of flavors of your added candy pieces. If you want a coconut and chocolate flavor combination, toasted or shredded coconut can be greatly added.
Monster Cookie Baking Tips
The cookies are chewy and extra soft, they could look a bit undercooked when you remove them from your oven. Allow them to sit for some minutes before you transfer them to the cooling rack. Use parchment paper to line the baking pan before you add your cookie dough in case the cookies stick to the baking pan when you allow them to cool.
Add some additional M&Ms over each of the dough balls after you have dropped them on your cookie sheet if you wish to have extra colorful cookies. Adding oats will help the cookies to be chewy and very nice. Ensure you do not use steel-cut or instant oatmeal oats but instead add quick-cooking oats to help you get your desired texture (chewy).
How to Make your Monster Cookies Without Peanut Butter (The Right Approach)
Step 1: Allow the oven to preheat to a temperature of 350°F.
Step 2: Get a bowl of medium size and cream your sugar and butter together.
Step 3: Proceed to add eggs and vanilla one after the other and mix them well until they are combined.
Step 4: Get a different bowl and whisk your salt, oats, baking soda, and flour.
Step 5: You may then add your wet ingredients into the dry and then mix them well until they form dough perfectly.
Step 6: Proceed to mix in the M&Ms and chocolate chips.
Step 7: Then drop the cookie dough on the baking sheet to bake for about 11 to 13 minutes until it is done.
Monster Cookies Without Peanut Butter
Yield: 24 (twenty-four) minutes
Preparation time: 10 (ten) MINUTES
Cooking time: 13 (thirteen) MINUTES
Total taken time: 23 (Twenty-three) MINUTES
The recipe of monster cookies in the absence of peanut butter highlight above is very delicious and chewy. You may add any substitute nut butter and some other mix-in you want.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of M&Ms
- ½ cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¾ cup of quick-cooking oats
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
- 2 (two) large eggs
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 1 cup of softened two sticks butter
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- ¾ teaspoon of baking soda
- 3 cups of all-purpose flour
