Monster Cookie Bars (naturally gluten-free!)

These flourless monster cookie bars are full of oats, all-natural peanut butter, m&ms, and chocolate chips, making them the right candy deal with. Get pleasure from!

Welcome to our tackle monster cookie bars! They’re half monster cookies + half cookie bars mashed collectively and baked to chewy perfection. These make a giant batch — aka they’re a fantastic candy deal with to deliver to a gathering or snack on the go along with the fam.

PS: you must strive our Monster Cookie Protein Balls!

What are Monster Cookie Bars?

All of us love monster cookie right here within the midwest, and this recipe is mainly one big cake pan of monster cookies baked after which sliced into bars. Does it get extra scrumptious!?

Monster cookies are constructed from the bottom of oatmeal, peanut butter, and M&Ms.

Why You Need to Make These!

They’re Flourless: These monster cookie bars are flourless and gluten free due to the quick-cooking oats.

All-Pure Peanut Butter: We’re huge followers of utilizing all-natural drippy peanut butter with one ingredient – PEANUTS, and none of these further fillers you usually discover in lots of nut butters. Smucker’s All-Pure is our go-to.

No Granulated Sugar: As a substitute of utilizing white granulated sugar like many cookies and cookie bars do, we use mild brown sugar for these cookies. Be happy to sub 1:1 for coconut sugar if that’s your jam!

Darkish Chocolate Chips and M&Ms: We love the style that darkish or semi-sweet chocolate chips give these bars (as an alternative of milk chocolate chips). We additionally used m&ms to provide them some deliciously chocolate-y crunch. They’re monster cookies in spite of everything! What else may you employ?

• Butterscotch chips
• Peanut butter chips
• White chocolate chips
• Raisins

What You Want

These monster bars pack a brief checklist of elements you doubtless have readily available already. Listed below are the 9 elements you’ll want, and some professional suggestions for ingredient substitutions it’s possible you’ll be pondering of constructing:

• Fast-cooking oats: we DO NOT suggest utilizing something moreover quick-cooking oats on this recipe, as rolled or old style oats will take in an excessive amount of of the moist elements and lead to dry bars. And no person needs dry monster bars!
• All-natural, drippy peanut butter
• Maple syrup
• Melted butter: we don’t suggest subbing out the butter for an additional fats, as we haven’t examined it.
• Eggs
• Mild brown sugar: be happy to sub 1:1 coconut sugar if you happen to favor!
• Baking soda
• M&Ms
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Easy methods to Make Monster Cookie Bars

For the total recipe, scroll right down to the recipe card for a listing of elements and directions.

Preheat & Prep

First, preheat the oven to 350ºF and spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

Combine Elements

One wonderful thing about these bars is you don’t want to combine the moist and dry elements individually. One bowl, child! Add to a big bowl:

• oats
• peanut butter
• maple syrup
• melted butter
• eggs
• brown sugar
• baking soda

And blend with a picket spoon to mix. The batter must be thick like cookie dough. Then, add within the m&ms and chocolate chips, and blend once more. Mixing the m&ms and chocolate chips in final will be sure that they’re not melted by the nice and cozy melted butter.

Switch Dough to Baking Dish

Switch the monster cookie dough into the baking dish, and use your picket spoon (or arms) to press the batter firmly and flat into the dish.

Bake

Bake at 350ºF for round 17-20 minutes or till the edges start to show golden brown and it’s agency to the touch within the center.

Let Cool & Get pleasure from!

Let the monster cookie bars cool for a minimum of half-hour to 1 hour earlier than slicing and serving. It will permit them time to totally cool and guarantee a clear reduce of every particular person bar. YUM.

Storage

Let the cookie bars cool utterly. Then, switch them into an hermetic container or gallon-size bag and retailer in a cool, darkish place for as much as 5 days. In case your sheet pan has a lid, be happy to maintain the monster cookie bars proper within the sheet pan for storage.

Can I freeze monster cookie bars?

You have got two choices in terms of freezing these monster cookie bars.

Dough –> Wrap dough in plastic wrap after which place in a freezer-safe gallon-size bag. Take away as a lot air as attainable and freeze for as much as 3 months.

Cookies –> Let pan of monster cookie bars cool utterly, reduce into particular person bars after which switch right into a freezer-safe gallon-size bag. Take away as a lot air as attainable and freeze for as much as 3 months.

Monster Cookie Bars

These flourless monster cookie bars are full of oats, all-natural peanut butter, m&ms and chocolate chips, making them the right candy deal with. Get pleasure from!

Prep:20 minutes

Prepare dinner:20 minutes

Whole:40 minutes

Fats 20

Carbs 49

Protein 8

Elements

• 4.5 cups quick-cooking oats gluten-free if desired (rolled oats works too)
• 1 cup all-natural drippy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/2 cup butter melted
• 2 giant eggs
• 1 cup mild brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 cup M&Ms
• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions 

• First, preheat the oven to 350ºF and spray a 9×13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

• Add oats, peanut butter, maple syrup, melted butter, eggs, brown sugar, and baking soda to a big bowl and blend with a picket spoon to mix. The batter must be thick like cookie dough.

• Then, add in M&M’s and chocolate chips. Combine once more.

• Switch dough into the baking dish and use your picket spoon (or arms) to press the batter firmly into the dish.

• Bake at 350ºF for round 17-20 minutes or till the edges start to show golden brown and it’s agency to the touch.

• Let monster bars cool for a minimum of half-hour to 1 hour earlier than slicing and serving. 

Diet details

Energy: 389kcal Carbohydrates: 49g Protein: 8g Fats: 20g Fiber: 5g Sugar: 18g