Halloween Monster Cookies
Halloween Monster Cookies are chewy, soft-baked, and loaded with peanut butter, oats, Halloween m&m candies, and spooky candy eyeballs. This Halloween recipe is a fun and delicious way to celebrate Halloween!
Servings 36 cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (increase to 1 teaspoon if using unsalted butter)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter softened
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups goulish halloween m&m's (orange, lime green, purple m&m's)
- small candy eyeballs
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°. Prepare cookie sheets by lining with parchment paper, silpat liner, or spray lightly with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the oats, flour, baking soda, and salt.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until creamy and combined well. About 1-2 minutes. Add in the eggs and vanilla extract. Blend until combined.
- Mix the oat mixture into the butter mix, on low speed, and gradually increase the speed as needed just until everything is combined well. Add in the halloween m&m's and blend until combined.
- Take about 2 tablespoons of dough (I use a cookie scoop for this) and roll it into a ball. When done, the dough balls will look like golf balls. Place 12 dough balls onto the cookie sheet. Bake for 9-11 minutes. *Don't overbake these! They will continue cooking as they cool on the cookie sheet. The cookies should look puffy and not look wet.
- Immediately, gently press a few additional m&m's on top of each cookie and two candy eyeballs.
- Move the cookie to a cooling rack to cool completely. Store leftovers in a covered container out at room temperature. Leftovers are really good heated in the microwave for a few seconds.