Monster Cookie Bars

October 11, 2021

Do you ever feel like your dessert is… watching you?

Your favorite monster cookies are now in bar form! Packed with peanut butter, oatmeal, m&ms and chocolate chips, these monstrous cookie bars are most certainly eyeing your Halloween celebrations.

Monster Cookie Bars, topped with M&Ms and candy eyeballs cut into squares on a dark background

Monster Cookies are a combination of peanut butter, oatmeal, and m&m candies. Invented in the 1970s by a midwestern photographer and cub-scout leader named Dick Wesley, they were dubbed monster cookies because they are a Frankenstein-like mashup of various other cookie components, cobbled together by what happened to be on hand (in this case, peanut butter, oats and m&ms)

They don’t usually have eyes, but, we may as well go all-in on the monster theme, right?

Especially with Halloween just around the corner.

Square grid of cut Monster Cookie Bars, one tilted on its side to show cross-section

These are more than just basic chocolate chip cookies baked in a pan.

Old fashioned oats give the bars a hearty texture that, paired with the perfect amount of peanut butter, is really, really satisfying to eat. And you may not think that a mere teaspoon of honey would make a difference, but let me tell you: it certainly does (if you love peanut butter and honey sandwiches like I do, these bars will seriously satisfy).

If that wasn’t enough, they’re packed with a heaping cup of m&m candies and dark chocolate chips studded throughout, plus more on top for good measure.

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