Giant Cookie Monster Cookies
These cookie monster cookies are thick and chewy, packed with chocolate chips, filled with bits and pieces of Oreo and Chips Ahoy, and of course, that classic Cookie Monster blue we know and love! This recipe creates giant cookies, which truly are the best kind, in my opinion. Perfectly toasted on the outside, gooey on the inside, and the flavor screams Cookie Monster! You can have giant, gourmet cookies right at home with this bakery-style cookie recipe!
The Perfect Cookie Monster Cookie
What actually makes the perfect Cookie Monster cookie? In my opinion, there are a few must-haves when crafting one of these classic cookies! There needs to be a blend of regular chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips. White chocolate chips add a ‘center of an oreo’ flavor throughout the cookie that is truly spot on! Along with the chocolate chips, crushed bits and pieces of Oreo and Chips Ahoy are a must-have in the making of a Cookie Monster cookie.
Lastly, they must be blue! But not just any blue, the perfect blue. I’ve found a lot of Cookie Monster cookie recipes mixing different shades of gel food coloring to achieve this classic blue color. If you don’t add enough of these food colorings, the cookies will end up being a sad teal color with bits of brown cookie dough peaking through. I’ve found Lorann Oil’s Blue Gel Food Coloring is the best way to achieve this nostalgic shade of blue!
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What You Will Need :
- A Stand Mixer with the Paddle Attachment
- All-Purpose Flour (Optional: Sub GF Flour 1:1)
- Granulated Sugar
- Brown Sugar (light or dark)
- Baking Soda
- Salted Butter
- Vanilla Extract
- Corn Starch
- Egg
- Salt
- White Chocolate Chips
- Milk Chocolate Chips
- Oreos (Regular or Double Stuffed)
- Mini Chips Ahoy Cookies
- Blue Gel Food Coloring (Lorann’s is the best for the “Cookie Monster” color!)
- Cookie Sheet (I love this 3 Piece Set from Amazon, and it’s usually on sale!)
- Parchment Paper (Optional)
- Food Scale (Optional, but highly recommended!)
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A Few Helpful Tips for Thick and Chewy Cookies:
- Whisk the dry ingredients in a separate bowl first! Generally, this simple step can reduce the overall mix time and prevents over-mixing! This can actually cause cookies to spread more!
- Cold butter! Cold butter helps cookies not spread as much and keeps that giant, bakery-style look we love!
- Use a food scale to weigh the flour and sugar. Believe it or not, it can be super easy to add too much flour. The food scale is really helpful in avoiding this mistake!
- No-Chill time required! This is an added bonus to this cookie monster cookie recipe!
- Weigh your mounds of cookie dough on a food scale, this creates a consistent cookie size every time. I weighed these at about 160 grams each and was able to form around 6 giant cookies! You can always make them smaller to your liking, just adjust the baking time as needed.
Follow the easy-to-follow recipe below and bake these giant cookies friends and family at your next celebration!
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 Stick Salted Butter 113 Grams
- 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar 100 Grams
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar 213 Grams
- 1 Egg
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour (Plus 2-3 Tbsp) 323 Grams
- 1 Tsp Baking Soda
- 2 Tbsp Corn Starch
- 1/2 Tsp Salt Heaping
- 2 Tsp Lorann Oil’s Blue Gel Food Coloring
- 1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips
- 1/2 Cup White Chocolate Chips
- 5 Oreos
- 1 1/2 Pack Mini Chips Ahoy
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F
- Whisk together flour, corn starch, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add cold, cubed butter to stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on high for 1 min. Scrape sides, and mix again for another 30 seconds.
- Add brown sugar and granulated sugar to butter and mix on medium until combined and fluffy.
- Add vanilla extract, egg, and egg yolk until just combined. (don't overmix!)
- Start adding flour mixture in increments on low until just combined.
- Now, add the blue gel food coloring on low until the color is evenly distributed.
- Add chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips. (save a few to push on top of each cookie before baking if you'd like!)
- Add 3 Oreos (Use the remaining 2 Oreos to add on the tops for presentation) and 1 pack of Mini Chips Ahoy and pulse mixer until add-ins are distributed.
- Roll each cookie and place on a lined baking sheet. These cookies weighed about 165 grams each (6 oz) and I was able to form 6 giant cookies!
- Bake on middle rack for 10-12 minutes, depending on cookie size. The cookies should start turning light brown on the tops!
- Let sit for 10-15 minutes after baking before moving to a cooling rack, this gives the cookies time to set!
Notes
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The cookie color in your video is entirely different from the ones in the photos!!
Hi Anne! That video was actually from a different batch of cookies where I didn’t use enough of the blue coloring! That being said, definitely make sure you use enough to get that perfect Cookie Monster blue!