Vampire movies and frightfully delicious Monster Cookies? It's Thanksgiving - not Halloween. What the dickens is going on here?!
Don't worry; I'll have more Thanksgiving stuff for you later this week. (PS - you know what's really scary? How behind I am on reading blogs. Wha hahaha.)
I went to see the midnight showing of Twilight, on Thursday, with my sister and her friend. We arrived 2 hours in advance, but still ended up getting crappy seats. I had to sit alone for a while, until we could find seats together.
There's nothing like sitting alone at a movie. I think it made me a stronger person.
I read Twilight and liked it, because it immediately sucked me in when I started reading it, and I love when a book does that. I wouldn't consider Twilight a classic piece of literature, but it's a fun read.
I didn't have high expectations going into the movie, and I'm glad I didn't, because it sucked.
Yeah, I said it. Go ahead and argue with me if you want.
It felt rushed, cheaply made, and the acting was NOT good. I suppose the leads did okay, but the others, well... yeah. Bad.
I found myself hysterically laughing all throughout the movie at parts that weren't necessarily supposed to be funny. (Old timey scenes with hats... Tree leaping... Edward's sparkling skin... Bella's slightly ajar mouth in EVERY scene...)
The way I imagined everything while I was reading the book was so much different than the movie. The movie wasn't as good as my imagination. And for that, I have to thank LeVar Burton.
But I'm guessing you didn't come here today to read about Twilight. You're here for Monster Cookies.
Yes, they are frightfully delicious, like I mentioned earlier. What a spooky time I had when I passed these out at the cookie swap. I think these were perfect cookies for a cookie exchange, and everyone seemed to like them.
If you don't know already, monster cookies are big peanut butter oatmeal cookies with chocolate chips and M&M's in them.
Yeah. They taste as good as they sound.
Printable Recipe
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups creamy peanut butter
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon corn syrup
4 large eggs
2 cups semisweet or dark chocolate chips
2 cups M&M's
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter cookie sheets.
In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Whisk in oats until combined.
In a VERY large mixing bowl, using a mixer on medium speed, beat together butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar, until creamy, about 2-3 minutes. Beat in vanilla, corn syrup and eggs, until well combined, about 2 minutes. Beat in flour-oat mixture until combined. Beat in chocolate chips and M&M's until well combined.
At this point, I chilled my dough, but I don't think it was necessary. I probably chilled it for 20 minutes in the freezer.
Measure out dough into equal, round balls, and place on prepared sheet pan, spacing fairly far apart (they spread quite a bit). Flatten balls using the palms of your hand, or the bottom of a drinking glass. Use 1/4 cup measure for big cookies. Bake at 350 degrees F, for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown and set. Cool for 3 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool.
Makes a ton of cookies.
Let's say 5 dozen
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