- [Host] If you're looking for a delicious cookie
with a little bit of everything,
then you've gotta try my Monster Cookie recipe.
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Hey, you're watching Preppy Kitchen, where I, John Kanell,
teach you how to make delicious homemade dishes
to share with your family and friends.
These cookies will be ready before you know it,
so let's get started.
First off, we're gonna measure out
1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour, that's 180 grams.
Look at that.
I love how one cup of flour that you can fit in
is more than 1 1/2 cups.
Three quarters of a teaspoon of baking soda.
You have to let me know in the comments
if you already know what a monster cookie is,
or if you've had them before.
They're really fun, but I feel like it's a bit regional.
You let me know.
I'm adding half a teaspoon of salt.
If your salt is fine-grained,
add half of a half teaspoon, or a quarter.
Grab a whisk, and we're gonna whisk it up.
(bright music)
Scale is done, but this bowl isn't.
We're gonna add one cup of rolled oats into here.
These give it a wonderful chew and texture, I just love it.
Mix those in.
Now we're gonna set it aside,
and cream our butter and peanut butter and sugars up.
To your mixer, fitted with a paddle attachment,
we're gonna add one cup of butter, that's 226 grams,
and one cup of smooth peanut butter.
But if you love crunchy, you can use crunchy.
I've told some people this before,
but my favorite snack growing up was toast with butter,
and then crunchy peanut butter on top.
Oh, that's a (kisses) chef's kiss moment.
Our other favorite unattended snack
were cream cheese tortillas.
You would heat the tortilla up on the burner,
and then a little brick of cream cheese, not a whole brick,
but a good slice of cream cheese in the middle.
Oh, (kisses) so good.
That should be a whole video.
All right, I'm gonna measure out one cup of peanut butter.
- [Crew] We should do a whole "John's Old Snacks:" video.
- [John] Yeah, "John's Snacks."
Oh my gosh, we also used to have
that machine that's like a clam shell
and you could put bread in there
and make your own fake pizzas.
That was good too.
Okay, one cup of smooth peanut butter.
Sorry for the reminiscing.
These are like kitchen sink cookies,
I have a little bit of everything, but they are delicious.
(pizzicato string music)
We're gonna cream this up until it's nice and smooth now,
and of course everything's combined well.
(mixer whirring)
This smells like magic, oh my gosh.
Give me a piece of bread.
All right, we're gonna add 2/3 cup of granulated sugar
and 3/4 cup of packed brown sugar.
You actually gotta pack it in there.
So the sugar can go in first.
And then we're gonna pour in the granulated sugar.
Two thirds of a cup.
Let's get this nice, light, and fluffy.
We will scrape the bowl down probably, it always happens.
(upbeat music)
Just scrape that bowl down.
(mixer whirring)
Butter, sugar, peanut butter's all mixed.
I'm gonna crack two eggs into a small bowl.
No shells in the cookie, that's not the crunch we want.
This is a very small bowl, but it'll do.
All right, mix it up.
Add two eggs in, one at a time.
Ooh.
It's looking luscious and glossy already.
Now two teaspoons of vanilla extract.
You can go down to one if you want.
Now it's time to add our flour/oat mixture,
so we can dump that in
and then mix on low until almost combined.
Mix on low.
It's basically there, so right now it's time
for the M&Ms and the chocolate chips.
I love that sound.
And half a cup...
I'm sorry, one cup of M&Ms and 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
Mix that in just a little bit.
Look at that monster.
Mix in any errant bits of flour, butter, etc.,
distribute those M&Ms and chocolate chips,
and now we're gonna cover this up
and chill for about 20 minutes to overnight,
and then scoop them up and bake them up.
We'll be right back.
(glockenspiel glisses)
Once your dough is chilled, it's time to scoop it out.
So use an ice cream scoop, or even spoons,
and just portion out roughly
two-tablespoon-sized balls of dough.
Give them a really quick roll
and place them onto your lined baking sheet.
They'll spread a bit,
so give them at least three inches of room in between.
You can scoop and bake all the dough right now,
or bake a batch and freeze the rest for later.
In either case, roll all the dough out,
freeze the dough that you're not gonna use,
just flat like this, and then place that in a freezer bag.
That way you can bake cookies on demand
and not have to worry about defrosting the whole batch.
If you wanna gussy these cookies up,
go ahead and add just a couple M&Ms
and chocolate chips right on top,
they'll be very pretty and just cheerful.
These cookies will bake for 10 to 15 minutes at 350.
More bake time means a crisper cookie,
so it's totally up to you.
Let me know what you prefer.
Out of the oven, they smell amazing,
and if you like this video, check out my Cookie playlist.
That cookie is a chef's kiss (kisses).
The chocolate, the peanut butter, the oats,
it's all coming together and making cookie magic.
I'll see you in the next video.