Easy 5-Ingredient Monster Cookies
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Updated Aug 18, 2022
These 5-ingredient easy Monster Cookies prove that less is more with too-good-to-be-true ingredients like peanut butter cookie dough, chocolate chips, M&M’s® candies, peanuts and oatmeal. Talk about a tasty treat! Bake up a batch of these quick Monster Cookies whenever you need a fantastic and family-friendly dessert.
Easy 5-Ingredient Monster Cookies
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- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 55 min
- Ingredients 5
- Servings 12
Ingredients
- 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
- 3/4 cup M&M's® milk chocolate candies
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup chopped cocktail peanuts
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Spray two cookie sheets with cooking spray.
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Step2In large bowl, break cookie dough into small chunks. Stir in remaining ingredients until well mixed.
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Step3Drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls about 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Flatten to about 1/2 inch thickness.
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Step4Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
320
Calories
15g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
42g
Total Carbohydrate
27g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 320
- Calories from Fat
- 130
- Total Fat
- 15g
- 23%
- Saturated Fat
- 6g
- 30%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 5mg
- 2%
- Sodium
- 220mg
- 9%
- Potassium
- 95mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 42g
- 14%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 8%
- Sugars
- 27g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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