Monster Cookies

Monster Cookies is a dessert recipe ready in 25 min. It makes 18 servings, each 240 kcal with 5 g protein. Beginner level, 11 ingredients.

Recipe by @bitesofberi, adapted and measured by Cookpath.

  • 25 mintotal
  • Beginnerlevel
  • 240kcal a serving
  • 5 gprotein
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Monster Cookies

What is Monster Cookies

Chewy oatmeal cookies with peanut butter, chocolate candies and chocolate chips, made without flour.

How to make Monster Cookies

Tips from the cook

  • Use creamy peanut butter that is neither runny nor thick, or the cookies bake too flat or too thick.
  • Use small chocolate candies; big ones don't work as well in cookies.
  • Take them out when the edges are barely brown. If unsure, underbake them slightly: they stay softer.
  • For gluten-free cookies, use oats labelled gluten-free.
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Meal prep and storage

They freeze well, or keep 2–3 days in an airtight box at room temperature.

Prep a few days

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Monster Cookies substitutions

Out of something, or cooking around an allergy. Each swap was checked against a source.

Peanut butter5 options
  • Sunflower seed butter 1:1; page says use interchangeably

    Stronger roasted taste.

  • Pumpkin seed butter 1:1
  • Tahini 1:1 in baking per page; bitterer

    Bitter for some.

    Still contains sesame.

  • Soy nut butter or chickpea butter 1:1

    Soy nut butter carries soy.

    Still contains soy.

  • Cashews (for whole peanuts) 1:1

    Still a nut.

    Still contains tree nuts.

Butter2 options
  • Vegan/dairy-free butter block 1:1 by weight

    Soft tub margarine fails in pastry and cheesecake base.

  • Olive oil use about 3/4 as much by volume

    Not for creaming or pastry; base goes oily.

Eggs1 option
  • Flax egg or aquafaba (baking only) per egg (flax: 1 tbsp + 3 tbsp water; aquafaba 3 tbsp)

    Not in shakshuka, omelette, Caesar.

Rolled oats1 option
  • Certified gluten-free rolled oats 1:1 by weight

    Coeliac UK notes a few people still react to avenin.

Chocolate candies2 options
  • Dairy-free chocolate chips (labelled dairy-free brand, e.g. Enjoy Life; check for soy lecithin) 1:1 by weight

    Many chocolate products contain milk ingredients; only labelled ones are dairy-free.

    Still contains soy.

  • Chocolate chips or raisins 1:1

    Chips may contain milk.

    Still contains dairy.

From the cook: use small chocolate candies; big ones do not work as well.

Chocolate chips2 options
  • Dairy-free chocolate chips or chopped dairy-free dark bar 1:1 by weight

    Still contains soy.

  • Raisins or cocoa nibs use 3/4

    Not sweet.

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