I get a lot of emails from people asking me about recipes. The other day I got an email asking me if I had a great recipe for Monster Cookies. I had never even heard of them, but I thought that it might be useful to someone else what I answered. When I am developing a recipe, I start with a recipe that I know works and one that I love. From there, I make adaptations and change out the flavors. For instance, this recipe. I wanted a cookie that I knew was chewy on the outside and soft on the inside, so I used the Savory Sweet Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe that comes from Alice Currah’s book Savory Sweet Life. I used it as the base and swapped out the chocolate chips for peanut butter chips and added crushed up pretzels and marshmallow bits. A whole new cookie.
1 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup crushed pretzels
1 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup marshmallow bits or mini marshmallows
Cream butter and both sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add eggs and vanilla.
Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add pretzel pieces, peanut butter chips, and marshmallow bits.
Drop batter onto a parchment lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the edges are brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup crushed pretzels
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
- 1/2 cup marshmallow bits or mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Cream butter and both sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla.
- Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add pretzel pieces, peanut butter chips, and marshmallow bits.
- Drop batter onto a parchment lined baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.
- Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the edges are brown. Cool completely on a wire rack.
Week 5 of 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats hosted by Meal Planning Magic.
I am Bree. I love to cook. Even more than I love to take pictures.
These are like Take 5 candy bars in cookie form! Delicious!
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Yes!!
Those look so good and your photographs are beautiful.
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Heck yes! What a beauty!
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar recently posted..Fudgy Graveyard Brownies
They are so good! The perfect texture too.
Yum! I love these flavors too…these would be a great holiday gift.
Tara @ Chip Chip Hooray recently posted..Slow Cooker Chicken Chili
A gift that I would like to get.
I need to find these marshmallow bits! I keep seeing recipes that use them and I want to try them so badly!
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I see them at Target a lot.
Looks delish!
thanks Monica!
bookmarking this! i love the saltiness the pretzels will add!
Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings recently posted..Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
I have been putting pretzels in everything.
Love it! One of my favorite treats are those giant bins of peanut butter stuffed pretzels that you get from Costco…I like how this emulates that flavor combo!
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You will love this cookie then.
Pinning right this second! Love the combination of peanut butter chips, pretzels, and marshmallows. Yum!
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thanks for the pin!
Wow, do these ever look delicious! I love that you used peanut butter chips. I must live under a rock since I didn’t even know these existed. Now I”m going to keep my eyes open!
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thank you! They are next to the chocolate chips.
These cookies look delicious. I’ve never heard of monster cookies either. I guess the only thing similar would be cowboy cookies, but then again those are not remotely close to these. I like the idea of peanut butter and marshmallow in a warm soft cookie
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Thanks Becca! These are really good. One of my better ideas.
These are all of my favorite treats rolled into one tasty cookie. Love!
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Me too Alida!
Yum! I love everything in these cookies so I’m sure I’d love it all together! Great puck!
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Thanks Dawn!
I’d kill for a bite of these right now! Sweet and salty is my favorite combination ever. These sound amazing!
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Me too! The best.
Oh wow – these are beautiful photos and perfect looking cookies! I’m the same as you – I’ll take recipes that I know are winners, use them as a base and adapt to whatever suits my fancy. I love the combination of flavour you used in these cookies – salty and sweet is always delicious!
thank you Nancy!
Salty and sweet is a great combination. These cookies look delicious.
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My favorite combination!
What amazing pictures!!! I love the composition! Those cookies look like I want to jump in to my screen and gobble them all up!!!!
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thank you Chandra!
These sound amazing, I really want to make these for a cookie exchange we’re having at my office. How many cookies does this recipe make?
It depends on how big the scoop is, but I would say 3 dozen.
I was a bit weary of making these, im not a fan of peanut butter cookies-at all. I dont think it has anything to do with the fact that im 30 weeks pregnant.. These cookies are AMAZING!!!!! i keep eating them, i cant stop!
Aren’t they good?
It’s a blizzard here in RI today and I made your cookies. Delicious! And they go great with wine!
I am glad that you liked them so much! Stay warm!