Dorothy Hurst's Monster Cookies

1 Pound (2 Cups) Margarine	1 Dozen Eggs
2 Pounds Brown Sugar	3 Pounds Peanut Butter
4 Cups White Sugar	1 12-Oz Package Chocolate Chips
1 Tablespoon Karo Syrup	2 12-Oz Packages M&Ms
1 Tablespoon Vanilla	1 Pound Walnuts, Chopped
8 Teaspoons Baking Soda	18 Cups Quick Oatmeal

Cream margarine, brown sugar and white sugar. Add Karo syrup, vanilla, baking soda and eggs; mix well. Beat in peanut butter. Pour over chocolate chips, M&Ms, walnuts and oatmeal. Mix together (I use my hand) . Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, depending on size of cookies. Let set 5 minutes before removing from cookie sheet to wire rack to finish cooling. Makes such a large batch that I store some dough in large covered tupperware container and bake some a few days later. Can be frozen.

Recipe - Dorothy Hurst MaCauley

Making Monster Cookies ...

Creamed butter and sugar

All the wet ingredients combined

Now it was time to combine all the dry ingredients.  I used my largest stock pot. 

However, it was clear that I was not going to be able to mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients in the same pot 

So it was time to bring out the second stock pot and split the ingredients evenly. 

Completed cookie dough divided into two stock pots

For Bridget's annual Christmas cookie swap, I decided to undertake this mammoth of a recipe, as I needed 8 dozen cookies.  I had hoped to make it all in one batch, but as you can see here, just trying to cream the butter and sugar maxed out my KitchenAid mixer.  I moved half of the creamed butter and sugar to another bowl before adding the eggs, corn syrup, baking soda and vanilla...

Addition of one dozen eggs to creamed butter and sugar

At this point, I transferred the butter/sugar/egg mixture to the rest of the creamed butter and sugar and combined.

Next, was to add the peanut butter.  I put it in the mixer with half of the creamed butter/sugar/egg mixture and beat until smooth.  I then combined everything in the larger separate bowl.

Dry ingredients

At this point I combined all the dough into the one stock pot.  Unfortunately, that is the one photo I forgot to take. 

Time to bake.  For aesthetics, I only put half of the M&Ms in the dough (I used red and green ones for Christmas).  The other half I pressed into the cookies on the cookie sheet before baking so that the colored candies would be visible on the surface. 

Twelve dozen Monster Cookies.

And bake I did.  I stopped baking after completing 12 dozen Monster Cookies.  But I still had lots of leftover dough. 

Still a lot of dough left after baking 12 dozen cookies

Frozen dough in the freezer

So I froze the rest of the dough in Ziploc bags.  I estimate there is probably another 6 dozen cookies worth of dough here.  It will make for a nice quick treat again after the holidays.  - April Ferre

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"This recipe was a request of my son, David.  His Grandma Dorothy in Washington would send them down to him in Santa Cruz for a special treat." - Calla Ferre

"This recipe was perfect for my labmate's annual Christmas cookie swap, where I needed to bring 8 dozen cookies.  I was determined to make this recipe as one entire batch, and it was quite a feat doing so.  I stopped baking at 12 dozen cookies and froze back the rest of the dough for later.  I estimate there are another 6 dozen cookies left to bake.  Keep this in mind when you go to make these cookies.  The recipe can easily be halved or quartered if need be.  Also, this is a great recipe for those with gluten allergies, amazingly there is no flour, only oatmeal!." - April Ferre

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