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 proper candy deal with. Take pleasure in!

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 terrific candy deal with to deliver to a gathering or snack on the go together with the fam.

PS: it’s important to attempt 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 principally one large cake pan of monster cookies baked after which sliced into bars. Does it get extra scrumptious!?

Monster cookies are produced 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 because of the quick-cooking oats.

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

No Granulated Sugar: As an alternative of utilizing white granulated sugar like many cookies and cookie bars do, we use gentle 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 a substitute of milk chocolate chips). We additionally used m&ms to present them some deliciously chocolate-y crunch. They’re monster cookies in any case! What else might you utilize?

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

What You Want

These monster bars pack a brief listing of substances you possible have available already. Listed below are the 9 substances you’ll want, and some professional ideas for ingredient substitutions you could be considering of constructing:

• Fast-cooking oats: we DO NOT suggest utilizing something moreover quick-cooking oats on this recipe, as rolled or old school oats will absorb an excessive amount of of the moist substances and end in dry bars. And no one desires dry monster bars!
• All-natural, drippy peanut butter
• Maple syrup
• Melted butter: we don’t suggest subbing out the butter for one more fats, as we haven’t examined it.
• Eggs
• Gentle brown sugar: be at liberty to sub 1:1 coconut sugar in the event you favor!
• Baking soda
• M&Ms
• Semi-sweet chocolate chips

Easy methods to Make Monster Cookie Bars

For the complete recipe, scroll all the way down to the recipe card for a listing of substances and directions.

Preheat & Prep

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

Combine Components

One beauty of these bars is you don’t want to combine the moist and dry substances 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 wood 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 make 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 wood 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 perimeters start to show golden brown and it’s agency to the touch within the center.

Let Cool & Take pleasure in!

Let the monster cookie bars cool for a minimum of half-hour to 1 hour earlier than slicing and serving. It will enable them time to completely cool and guarantee a clear minimize 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 at liberty to maintain the monster cookie bars proper within the sheet pan for storage.

Can I freeze monster cookie bars?

You have got two choices with regards to 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 doable and freeze for as much as 3 months.

Cookies –> Let pan of monster cookie bars cool utterly, minimize into particular person bars after which switch right into a freezer-safe gallon-size bag. Take away as a lot air as doable 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 proper candy deal with. Take pleasure in!

Prep:20 minutes

Prepare dinner:20 minutes

Complete:40 minutes

Fats 20

Carbs 49

Protein 8

Components

• 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 gentle 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 wood 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 wood spoon (or arms) to press the batter firmly into the dish.

• Bake at 350ºF for round 17-20 minutes or till the perimeters 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