MONSTER COOKIES | Party/Crowd-Pleaser | DYI Demonstration

Welcome. Deronda here with foods 101. Today, I'm showing you how to make these Monster Cookies. They're absolutely fantastic and definitely a party and crowd pleaser. The ingredients are going to need is 2 cups of quick one-minute oats, 1 cup of peanut butter, 1/2 cup of butter or one stick, 1/4 TSP of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, 1 cup of all-purpose flour, 1/2 a cup of chocolate chips (I'm using milk chocolate you can use dark chocolate or semi-swe

et chocolate whatever you got on hand), 1/2 cup of granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, this is optional, 2 eggs at room temperature, and 1 cup of M&Ms and we're going to divide this. Half of the M&Ms go into the dough. I'm gonna use the other half to add to the top of each cookie. Plus I'm gonna add 1/4 of a cup of these English toffee bites. This gives it a little crunch. Not necessary but I'm just adding it. Why? Because I want to. Let me show you how

simple and easy this is to get together. In a large bowl I'm adding all the flour, the salt, and baking powder. With a whisk incorporate these ingredients. Next we're gonna add that oatmeal. You want to make sure your dry ingredients are well incorporated. Set this off to the side. I'm using my stand mixer to mix my sugars and butter together. I like adding the sugar first. This way your butter is not gonna stick to the bottom of your bowl. You want your butter nice and soft before adding it. Mi

x. I've got this on 3-speed. We're gonna make sure this butter and these sugars are nice and fluffy. After a minute they're gonna add 1egg at a time. Incorporate the eggs with the butter and sugar mixture for about 1 minute. You want to make sure that you keep the sides of your bowl scraped down. It's very important. Add that last egg. It's time to add the peanut butter. We're gonna add the whole entire cup. I love using a spatula cuz it gets it all out and you're gonna have any of this peanut

butter left in your measuring cup. Mix this about 1 minute. All right, now be sure to scrape down the sides of your bowl because we're going to start adding the vanilla and then we're gonna add the dry ingredients. You want to mix this for about 30 seconds. I'm gonna turn this down a little bit cuz I'm gonna start adding the dry ingredients and I don't want my flour and oats to go flying everywhere, so just one spoon at a time till we get all this mixed well. I forgot to add my cinnamon earlier

to my dry ingredients, so I'll just go ahead and put it in it won't hurt anything. Adding the last of my flour and oatmeal here on a piece of wax paper, because it makes it a lot easier to get all your flour and oatmeal here into your butter sugar mixture when you use a piece of wax paper. Turn your speed down to low. Add your chocolate chips with half your M&M's. I'm going to add that English toffee. We're gonna make sure that we scrape down the sides of the bowl. Mix our cookie dough together

we're gonna cover this with plastic wrap and we're gonna let it sit for the next 20 minutes so the oatmeal can absorb all these fabulous flavors. You can leave it at room temperature. 20 minutes are up. I'm going to start skipping my cookie dough out here on a cookie sheet. I like to use parchment paper on my cookie sheet. I love the way it makes the bottom of the cookies look plus there's not much of a mess to clean up. I like using a ice cream scooper to get my dough out. This holds about 1/4

of a cup. You just go in like this. Make sure you pull it flat here on the surface so you have a ice cream scooper full of cookie dough. Place it right here on your parchment paper. Continue doing this be sure not to overcrowd your cookie sheet, about two inches apart. I've been adding four to five M&Ms here to the top of our cookies before we bake them. This will give it a lovely little festive color. Make sure you just push them down in there. At this point you want your oven preheated to 350

degrees Fahrenheit. These are off to the oven. On the middle rack for the next 16 to 20 minutes or until the cookies are golden along the edge. Use your timer and no peeking. First batch of cookies have baked. Boy do they smell delicious. You see how golden along the edge right there? That's what you're looking for. Now you know they're completely baked. Let these cool down for about 5 minutes before you transfer them over here to a cooling rack. After five minutes I'm transferring my monster c

ookies (look how fabulous those are) over here to a cooling rack. Cool down completely for about one hour, if you can wait. After about 10 minutes. Oh yeah, you think I could wait? Oh no. We're gonna pull... look on the inside. That oatmeal those chocolate chips. Look how beautiful and golden it is on the bottom. I love to use that parchment paper when I'm baking. We gotta give this a try... Mmm the peanut butter, a lovely crunch here on the edge. Yum... I can taste those little bits of toffee,

the chocolate chips, but the M&Ms and the peanut butter put it over the top y'all. These Monster Cookies are absolutely scrumptious!! A perfect crowd-pleaser. Perfect for any party or get-together. It's always a hit. You won't go wrong with these Monster Cookies. I'm Deronda with foods 101. Give me thumbs up. Leave me a comment. Hit that notification bell to be the first to get my new YouTube food videos. Thanks a million for watching, stay safe, and I'll catch you lovely people later...