Monster Cookies

If you had a rockin' Halloween like we did, you might still have lingering candy cluttering up your house and finding its way into your tummy day after day. I decided this had to stop. We had so many leftover treats from chocolate apples and from trick-or-treating (at the store, that is) I decided to round them up into one place: Monster Cookies.

These cookies are a "kitchen sink" variety. You can put basically anything you'd like into them, and the more variety the better. They helped us to eat up, and share, all that leftover candy in no time.

Since I'm thinking more and more about family traditions these days, I can't wait to make them with my babies after they trick-or-treat. They can select candy contributions from their hoard, and we can mix the cookies up together and share them with our neighbors and friends. See, Halloween can be such a giving, sharing, caring, holiday :)

These are seriously, ridiculously, and dare I say, monstrously good!

{get 'em before they're gone}

Monster Cookies
family recipe, courtesy my sister Krista

Ingredients:
2 Cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

1 Cup softened butter
1 Cup granulated sugar
1 Cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 2/3 Cups rolled oats

Add-ins: whatever you'd like to use, totaling 2-3 Cups
1/4 Cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 Cup milk chocolate chips
1/4 Cup currants (or raisins)
1/2 Cup toffee bits
1/2 Cup peanut butter chips
1 Cup mini M&Ms

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. Combine add-ins and rolled oats in a small bowl and set aside. In large bowl, cream together butter and both sugars. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla. With a wooden spoon, gradually stir in sifted dry ingredients. Then stir in mixture of rolled oats and add-ins until evenly combined and distributed.

Drop in rounded spoonfuls onto parchment lined baking sheet-these have a tendency to stick with all that candy in them :) Bake 5-10 min (I did mine for 8 min). If you chill the batter first, or if you save it for later and pull it out of the fridge or freezer, pull the cookies out when they are halfway done and mash them down a bit.

Allow to cool 2-3 minutes before removing from tray.

Enjoy!