Amazing Cookies (Peanut Butter, M&M’s, Chocolate Chips, & Oatmeal)

We love cookies. These cookies have become our favorite cookies. They have everything delicious – chocolate chips, oatmeal, peanut butter, and M&M’s. How can you go wrong with those ingredients! My son actually prefers his without M&M’s so we make a few just for him.

These are also know as Monster Cookies – but I just think they are amazing! If you follow any of my recipes you know that I love to cook with pudding – so make sure you always have a little pudding powder in your house for extra yumminess in your cookies!

Amazing Cookies

• ½ cup butter, softened
• ¼ cup sugar
• ½ cup light brown sugar
• 2 Tablespoons vanilla pudding powder
• ¾ cup  peanut butter
• 1  egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 & ¼ cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup quick oats – these are the small oats
• ¾ cup chocolate chips
• 1 cup of M&M’s (I used 2 small bags)

Instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a large bowl add the butter, sugars, pudding powder, peanut butter, egg, and vanilla. Mix well.
3. Add the flour, baking soda, and oats to the bowl and mix until all the ingredients are well mixed. (I know people like to use 2 bowls but I think the recipe works fine and I avoid the extra bowl to clean.)
4. Add the chocolate chips and mix well (again).
5. Drop rounded tablespoons of the dough onto a cookie sheet. (I have an awesome Medium Cookie Scoop that makes the perfect cookies.)
6. Add a few M&M’s to each of the cookies and flatten a little with the palm of your hand.
7. Bake for 12-14 minutes. (You may want to check them sooner if you make them smaller.)

I think that I will start to make a double batch of these cookies because they don’t make many. This batch made about 28 cookies – it really depends on the size of your cookies. But I love to freeze the cookie dough so I can just pull it out and make a few cookies when we need a snack.