We recently moved my grandma into a new house and I found this in a recipe book, I want to try and make them but I'm allergic to peanuts would it be okay to substitute the peanut butter for cashew or a different nut butter?
by Krazykid678
39 Comments
AustinBennettWriter
I’m more intrigued why she would make 11 dozen cookies.
linzolee
You can definitely swap to any other nut butter. I typically do bc I hate PB lol
Main_Significance617
Oooo r/oldrecipes would love this
emmatt
Can confirm that this looks like my in-laws’ monster cookie recipe. We only make them at Christmas, when you want this quantity to make sure everyone has enough to take home and share. No opinion on swapping out the PB, but the rest is legit and delicious.
WhyUMakeMeSignUp
This is pretty well identical to the recipe I made today! This is our steady, go-to, for monster cookies. Every single person loves this recipe!
I think any nut butter could be substituted, I would try to find one that has a commercial peanut butter texture-it will have hydrogenated oil listed as an ingredient, and ideally sugar too. I think skippy makes an almond butter like this. I would probably reduce the recipe to 30% of the original(1 egg, 1 cup nut butter etc) so I wouldn’t have to spend 40$ on almond butter.
Sally_twodicks
This looks exactly like my monster cookie recipe… except, I baked professionally so we had to make that many.
ceciem2100
Absolutely fine to make the sub, i love cashew butter bit anther nut butter almond is yummy, is fine. Hope you are hungry!
WowzaMeowza
I highly recommend trying cookie butter. I’ve tried a few pb alternatives and cookie butter felt like an epiphany. I’m a pb fiend and haven’t found another alternative that beats it in my opinion. That said, it’s definitely an indulgent option!
dietitianoverlord113
This is my recipe too! From my grandma!!!
Dumpstr__Diva
I grew up in a family with 8 kids. This is a recipe amount we would have made. Usually we would have made a double batch of snickerdoodles and a double batch of chocolate chips every Sunday to get us through the school week. That would have been ~120 cookies or 10 dozen (ish) As for substituting the nut butter try almond ?
tookuayl
I make a similar recipe and I use half quick cooking oats and half old-fashioned oats. I make them double in size so it only yields roughly 48. I bake them for 18-20 minutes at 350 F (I wait 15 min before transferring to a rack). They are always a hit but can get dried out rather quickly. They also freeze beautifully and can be eaten still slightly frozen.
LaraH39
This is very similar to my monster cookie recipe.
Yes, you can use any nut butter you like.
StanleyTushy0819
And that handwriting! Gorgeous! My Mom has beautiful penmanship, too. Don’t see it too often anymore.
Cautious_Parking2386
Need to give this a try
TotallyTardigrade
11 dozen is wild.
TululahJayne
I have been looking for this exact recipe for 15 years haha. My mom had a recipe like this on a note card that someone had handed out at the state fair and she misplaced it years ago. It was really hard to find. Recipe that includes the corn syrup. Thanks! Also my mom’s handwriting is soooooo similar to this.
idkpickausername_pls
I have the same recipe from my parents but doubled. After requesting them for my birthday for most of my childhood, I can confirm that the doubled recipe I have makes about 13-15 dozen, so unless you’re making smaller cookies than I am, I’m pretty sure that the 11 dozen is a bit high for this recipe.
As for alternative nut butters, I haven’t tried cashew butter, but have tried Nutella and pistachio butter. Pistachio butter worked for me, Nutella messes with the sugar ratio because it is not a pure nut butter.
If you want to experiment on smaller batches, I would suggest cutting the recipe down to either half or 1/6. If you do this though, you’ll need to blend about 20-40g of oats to make oat flour. Part of the reason these cookies hold together without flour is the amount of oat flour present in 9cups of oats. The problem with making the recipe smaller is the oat flour settles to the bottom of the container it’s in, so if you’re only getting 3 cups of oats instead of 9, you’re not getting all of the natural oat flour from the container.
JacquieTorrance
This was the quintessential 80s cookie. We kids loved them because you’re supposed to use an ice cream scoop to put them on the pan and they bake up bigger than your hand. Every kid loved them not only because of the colorful candy in them, but because of their size.
If you make them with an ice cream scoop, it doesn’t make 11 dozen. 😄 But the size is why they were called “Monster Cookies.”
The other recipe of that same era was “Cowboy Cookies” which were similar and weirdly super popular.
As a Gen X who grew up with these, I have been enjoying reading the comments like y’all never had one.
Def use the M&Ms, it makes them look irresistible.
OkCryptographer1922
Yeah you could definitely sub whatever nut butter you want! My grandma would make these and she’s allergic to peanuts, she’d use sunflower seed butter
java_dog
I’m almost positive my mom has the same recipe and almost the same handwriting ! I had to zoom in close to see if it was the same !
Best recipe ever! I’ve made up to 5 full batches to give out for Christmas. It mixes together very well by hand and is pretty fail proof. Highly recommend!!
MembershipKlutzy1476
My mother-in used to make 12dozen Greek cookies every Christmas. It was wonderful.
lynnupnorth
And yes, absolutely one nut butter can sub for another
Purple_Moon_313
That’s a big Ole batch of cookies! Cashew butter would definitely work.
Clevernickname1001
I have substituted almond butter in peanut butter cookies before and they turned out pretty good.
WorldsDeadliestCat
I didn’t see the oats and I was like how the fuck is any of this staying together
SnooCrickets465
Feel a bit silly, but soda is baking soda in this context right? Better safe than sorry as I’d love to give this a try for some work pals
Homegrownhome
I use this recipe all the time! I make a half batch so it fits in the Kitchen Aid mixer. Excellent cookies!
Goldenthing
Memories….My mom used to make these back in the 1980s. They made a huge amount so she’d mix the dough in her giant turkey roasting pan and freeze them by the dozen in large zip lock bags. I always liked the combination of oatmeal and peanut butter. You could try using cashew butter instead of peanut butter. I’ve never cooked with cashew butter but I don’t see why you couldn’t try it ?
Such_Nectarine1165
The 1 1/2 tsp karo against the huge quantities of everything else is hilarious to me in
TenderfootGungi
The peanut butter just acts as a butter but adds flavor. It likely works with any butter, nut or otherwise. The flavor will just change.
I need to divide this by 6 and try it!
eleanorshellstrop_
Beautiful penmanship
FruitedFloralei
Anyone familiar with high altitude baking and if this recipe would need any adjustments? I wanna try it, but living at 9000’ means most things I bake end up getting thrown out! I’m about to give up.
dancingCreatrixx
We would always make em in tubs.. troughs? 🤣 lile 11 dozen was always the minimum amount .. so.many.fucking.monster.cookies.
But now I always crave monster cookies around christmas
magic__unicorn
I’d say sunflower seed butter, I like the sun butter one in the yellow jar for cookies. Keep in mind that the cookies will turn green on the inside due to a chemical reaction between the sun butter and baking soda.
The amounts of vanilla and corn syrup are baffling to me though lol
teankleenex
I would try it with whatever nut butter you are allowed but you should do like 1/8 of the recipe.
39 Comments
I’m more intrigued why she would make 11 dozen cookies.
You can definitely swap to any other nut butter. I typically do bc I hate PB lol
Oooo r/oldrecipes would love this
Can confirm that this looks like my in-laws’ monster cookie recipe. We only make them at Christmas, when you want this quantity to make sure everyone has enough to take home and share. No opinion on swapping out the PB, but the rest is legit and delicious.
This is pretty well identical to the recipe I made today! This is our steady, go-to, for monster cookies. Every single person loves this recipe!
https://www.justataste.com/re-post-monster-cookies/
Off topic but I loooove her handwriting.
I think any nut butter could be substituted, I would try to find one that has a commercial peanut butter texture-it will have hydrogenated oil listed as an ingredient, and ideally sugar too. I think skippy makes an almond butter like this. I would probably reduce the recipe to 30% of the original(1 egg, 1 cup nut butter etc) so I wouldn’t have to spend 40$ on almond butter.
This looks exactly like my monster cookie recipe… except, I baked professionally so we had to make that many.
Absolutely fine to make the sub, i love cashew butter bit anther nut butter almond is yummy, is fine. Hope you are hungry!
I highly recommend trying cookie butter. I’ve tried a few pb alternatives and cookie butter felt like an epiphany. I’m a pb fiend and haven’t found another alternative that beats it in my opinion. That said, it’s definitely an indulgent option!
This is my recipe too! From my grandma!!!
I grew up in a family with 8 kids. This is a recipe amount we would have made. Usually we would have made a double batch of snickerdoodles and a double batch of chocolate chips every Sunday to get us through the school week. That would have been ~120 cookies or 10 dozen (ish)
As for substituting the nut butter try almond ?
I make a similar recipe and I use half quick cooking oats and half old-fashioned oats. I make them double in size so it only yields roughly 48. I bake them for 18-20 minutes at 350 F (I wait 15 min before transferring to a rack). They are always a hit but can get dried out rather quickly. They also freeze beautifully and can be eaten still slightly frozen.
This is very similar to my monster cookie recipe.
Yes, you can use any nut butter you like.
And that handwriting! Gorgeous! My Mom has beautiful penmanship, too. Don’t see it too often anymore.
Need to give this a try
11 dozen is wild.
I have been looking for this exact recipe for 15 years haha. My mom had a recipe like this on a note card that someone had handed out at the state fair and she misplaced it years ago. It was really hard to find. Recipe that includes the corn syrup. Thanks! Also my mom’s handwriting is soooooo similar to this.
I have the same recipe from my parents but doubled. After requesting them for my birthday for most of my childhood, I can confirm that the doubled recipe I have makes about 13-15 dozen, so unless you’re making smaller cookies than I am, I’m pretty sure that the 11 dozen is a bit high for this recipe.
As for alternative nut butters, I haven’t tried cashew butter, but have tried Nutella and pistachio butter. Pistachio butter worked for me, Nutella messes with the sugar ratio because it is not a pure nut butter.
If you want to experiment on smaller batches, I would suggest cutting the recipe down to either half or 1/6. If you do this though, you’ll need to blend about 20-40g of oats to make oat flour. Part of the reason these cookies hold together without flour is the amount of oat flour present in 9cups of oats. The problem with making the recipe smaller is the oat flour settles to the bottom of the container it’s in, so if you’re only getting 3 cups of oats instead of 9, you’re not getting all of the natural oat flour from the container.
This was the quintessential 80s cookie. We kids loved them because you’re supposed to use an ice cream scoop to put them on the pan and they bake up bigger than your hand. Every kid loved them not only because of the colorful candy in them, but because of their size.
If you make them with an ice cream scoop, it doesn’t make 11 dozen. 😄 But the size is why they were called “Monster Cookies.”
The other recipe of that same era was “Cowboy Cookies” which were similar and weirdly super popular.
As a Gen X who grew up with these, I have been enjoying reading the comments like y’all never had one.
Def use the M&Ms, it makes them look irresistible.
Yeah you could definitely sub whatever nut butter you want! My grandma would make these and she’s allergic to peanuts, she’d use sunflower seed butter
I’m almost positive my mom has the same recipe and almost the same handwriting ! I had to zoom in close to see if it was the same !
This version (https://mygluten-freekitchen.com/monster-cookies-gluten-free/) recommendations sun butter or an alternative nut butter as a substitute to peanut butter.
Best recipe ever! I’ve made up to 5 full batches to give out for Christmas. It mixes together very well by hand and is pretty fail proof. Highly recommend!!
My mother-in used to make 12dozen Greek cookies every Christmas. It was wonderful.
And yes, absolutely one nut butter can sub for another
That’s a big Ole batch of cookies! Cashew butter would definitely work.
I have substituted almond butter in peanut butter cookies before and they turned out pretty good.
I didn’t see the oats and I was like how the fuck is any of this staying together
Feel a bit silly, but soda is baking soda in this context right? Better safe than sorry as I’d love to give this a try for some work pals
I use this recipe all the time! I make a half batch so it fits in the Kitchen Aid mixer. Excellent cookies!
Memories….My mom used to make these back in the 1980s. They made a huge amount so she’d mix the dough in her giant turkey roasting pan and freeze them by the dozen in large zip lock bags. I always liked the combination of oatmeal and peanut butter. You could try using cashew butter instead of peanut butter. I’ve never cooked with cashew butter but I don’t see why you couldn’t try it ?
The 1 1/2 tsp karo against the huge quantities of everything else is hilarious to me in
The peanut butter just acts as a butter but adds flavor. It likely works with any butter, nut or otherwise. The flavor will just change.
I need to divide this by 6 and try it!
Beautiful penmanship
Anyone familiar with high altitude baking and if this recipe would need any adjustments? I wanna try it, but living at 9000’ means most things I bake end up getting thrown out! I’m about to give up.
We would always make em in tubs.. troughs? 🤣 lile 11 dozen was always the minimum amount .. so.many.fucking.monster.cookies.
But now I always crave monster cookies around christmas
I’d say sunflower seed butter, I like the sun butter one in the yellow jar for cookies. Keep in mind that the cookies will turn green on the inside due to a chemical reaction between the sun butter and baking soda.
The amounts of vanilla and corn syrup are baffling to me though lol
I would try it with whatever nut butter you are allowed but you should do like 1/8 of the recipe.