I’ve been looking into monster cookies for some time now. For those who don’t know a monster cookie is characterized by oatmeal, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and m & m’s. After my success with my chocolate chip murder cookies I revisited the idea. This one is a bit trickier with the introduction of peanut butter. Peanut butter is both a fat and a carbohydrate. Some of the peanut butter will replace some of the crisco or butter and some will replace some of the flour. Anyways on to the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup crisco
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup quick oats
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 4 oz baking chocolate
• 1 cup plain m & m’s

Instructions:

1. Whisk together dry ingredients in medium sized bowl. Set aside.
2. In mixer cream crisco and sugar.
3. Add peanut butter. Mix well.
4. Add vanilla, molasses, and milk. Mix well.
5. Add and incorporate dry ingredients.
6. Roughly chop baking chocolate.
7. Add chocolate and m & m’s and mix well.
8. Place one inch balls a sufficient distance apart on a cookie sheet.
9. Flatten balls with flour cup.
10. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
11. Cook cookies 20 to 24 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges.
12. Allow to cool and enjoy.

So apparently if you are like me Google News feed finds you things going on in the world like murder cookies. These for those who haven’t heard of them are a molasses cookie recipe found in someone’s house in the walls while renovating. The house that they are renovating also was known to have a murder take place within it’s walls. On reddit this recipe is lovingly and humorously referred to as murder cookies. I was interested enough to sign up for reddit and do searches to find the recipe. I made murder cookies yesterday and they’re good. While making them I liked the bones of the recipe, the procedure. It starts off like most cookie recipes with creaming the sugar and solid fat. Some notable differences though was just one egg to a batch of three dozen fairly large cookies. This is more reminiscent of a shortbread cookie where you leave out eggs entirely. The cookies don’t have much spread, but you manually spread them by mashing them with the bottom of a glass before cooking them. While making the murder cookies I thought I could use the bones to make a different and new chocolate chip cookie. A quick trip to the grocery store last night and I was ready to test the hypothesis today. They are good. Anyways on to the recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup crisco
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cups molasses
• 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1/4 cups skim milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 Tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 8 oz baking chocolate

Instructions:

1. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
2. Cream crisco and sugar.
3. Mix in remaining ingredients with the exception of the dry ingredients and the chocolate.
4. Mix in the dry ingredients.
5. Chop the chocolate bars and mix in cut up chocolate.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
7. Form dough into one inch balls and place on cookie sheet.
8. Use bottom of floured cup to press flat.
9. Place in preheated oven and cook for eighteen to twenty two minutes.
10. Remove from oven when browned around the edges.
11. Let cookies rest on sheet a minute to firm up.
12. Place on cooling rack until cool.
13. Enjoy.