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Cookie Monster Cookies

Cookies
May 24, 2022

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Cookie Monster Cookies – Chewy brown sugar cookies are colored blue, stuffed with a whole Oreo, and loaded with white chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, chocolate chip cookie pieces, and Oreo cookie pieces to make a monster of a cookie!

cookie monster cookie with a bite removed to show the oreo cookie in the center. stacked on another cookie

Cookies! It’s been a minute since we’ve had a cookie recipe so why not go BIG?! These Cookie Monster Cookies are three cookies stuffed in one. Would Cookie Monster want it any other way? Plus, I bet he’d love the blue hue we’ve given these cookies.

The base of these cookies are chewy, brown sugar and we add chopped chocolate chip cookies, Oreo cookies, and two kinds of chocolate chips. They’re pretty massive – and I wouldn’t change a thing about them.

Here are the Cookie Monster Cookies!

angled shot of a cookie monster cookie with cookie pieces peaking through the top
overhead shot of cookie monster cookies
picture of cookie monster cookies with a bite removed and sitting on a white painted wood surface

Making the dough

The base of these cookies is just like any other brown sugar cookie dough you’ve made. Just a little blue.

To start, the butter and sugars are creamed together. Vanilla and an egg are added in and mixed to combine. Now comes the blue food coloring. This is added before the dry ingredients to ensure the dough is not overmixed. Once you add flour, the gluten starts to develop and will get tough if overmixed. So we add in the food coloring before the flour.

The flour, baking soda, and salt are mixed together first and then mixed into the dough base. Finally, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and the cookie pieces are added into the dough.

cookie monster cookies sitting side by side

Forming the cookies

Once the dough is ready, it’s time to form the cookies. A tablespoon of dough is created for the base and placed on the baking sheet for 5 cookies per sheet. An Oreo is pushed on top of the dough so that the dough covers the bottom of the Oreo.

Another tablespoon of dough is placed over the Oreo to seal in the cookie. This is done for all the cookies.

Before baking, the cookies are chilled for about 20 minutes in the freezer. Then they go straight into the oven to bake for about 15 minutes.

Tips & Tricks

  1. Gel food coloring. This recipe calls for a beautiful blue color. To achieve this without messing with the chemistry of the dough, use gel food coloring. A little goes a long way!
  2. Chill the dough. The dough needs to chill a little in the freezer to make sure it’s not too warm when heading in the oven. If too warm, it will cause the cookies to spread into pancakes when baking.
  3. Bake until cracked. Because the cookies are blue, it will be harder to tell when they’re done baking. But if you look at the texture of the cookie, it will start to crack when cooked-through. Take them out at the first sign of cracking.
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Cookie Monster Cookies

Prep Time30 minutes mins
Cook Time15 minutes mins
Servings: 10 cookies

Ingredients

  • ⅔ cup unsalted butter softened
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated white sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • ¼ -½ teaspoon blue gel food coloring
  • 2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons white chocolate chips
  • 2 tablespoons semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 14 Oreo cookies
  • ⅓ cup chopped mini Chips Ahoy cookies

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prep two baking sheets by lining with parchment paper. Set aside.
  • Add butter and sugars to bowl of a stand mixer and mix on medium low until combined. Increase speend to medium and cream together for 2 minutes. Add vanilla and egg and mix until combined. Add gel food coloring until dough turns an electric bright blue. It willl soften in color when the dry ingredients are added so it's important that the color at this stange is super blue.
  • Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Then add to the blue dough and mix just until combined. Add in chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, chopped Chips Ahoy cookies, and 4 oreos, chopped into pieces. Mix to combine.
  • On one baking sheet, scoop 5 separate heaping tablespoons of dough an place 3-4 inches apart from each other on the baking sheet. Place 1 whole oreo onto the dough and press down to flatten out. Top each cookie with another tablespoon of dough and seal in the oreo. Repeat with the second baking sheet.
  • Chill cookies in the freezer for 20 minutes. Bake chilled cookies for 15 minutes or until the tops of the cookies just begin to crack. Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes before serving.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Cookie Dough Diaries

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  1. Dibujos para colorear says

    April 23, 2025 at 2:37 am

    Have you ever seen a cookie that looks like it leapt out of a coloring book? These Cookie Monster treats are a visual delight! But what if kids could swirl, smudge, and splatter their own Cookie Monster masterpiece? At https://colorearw.com/, they can download and print free PDF pages to color him blue and delicious!

    Reply
  2. Heather says

    June 14, 2022 at 4:55 pm

    These are so fun to make and to eat! Tasty cookie too.

    Reply
  3. Debbie says

    May 29, 2022 at 11:34 am

    I am a cookie fanatic and these cookie monster cookies are not only cute but delicious. I brought these to a weekend cookout and they disappeared quickly. Both kids and adults loved these cookies. Thanks for a great recipe.

    Reply
  4. Ann says

    May 28, 2022 at 1:37 pm

    Oh my goodness, my kids are going to love these! These look wonderful! Excited to give them a try! Thanks for the share!

    Reply
  5. Andrea Pannell says

    May 27, 2022 at 8:24 pm

    WOW! My kids would devour these, they look so fun!

    Reply
  6. Amanda Mason says

    May 27, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    We made these for a kids bday party and the kids had so much fun making and eating these. So fun and a great recipe!

    Reply
  7. Megan says

    May 26, 2022 at 9:29 pm

    How do you come up with this stuff? Seriously these cookies are my new favorite! Thanks for all the inspiration.

    Reply
  8. Amanda says

    May 26, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    I just love these cookies! They’re so cute, and the Oreo stuffing is absolutely delicious. Such a creative cookie!

    Reply
  9. Kayla DiMaggio says

    May 26, 2022 at 3:44 pm

    These cookie monster cookies were so fun! The kiddos absolutely loved them!

    Reply
  10. Sharon says

    May 26, 2022 at 1:56 am

    Such a great idea!!! Definitely saving this for the next school event of my kid, they will definitely love this!!!

    Reply
  11. Mahy says

    May 26, 2022 at 1:30 am

    Oh wow – these monsters are… SO CUTE! Can’t wait to make a whole lot of these for the holidays!

    Reply
  12. Andrea says

    May 25, 2022 at 11:06 pm

    These are adorable! The kids loved making them. Super fun and very good.

    Reply
  13. Anita says

    May 25, 2022 at 9:59 pm

    Such a fun and interesting cookies. I am sure these are a big hit with kids.

    Reply
  14. Casey says

    May 25, 2022 at 9:56 pm

    Super delish!! My daughter said I need to. make them pink next time! LOL! Such a hit!

    Reply
  15. Kathleen says

    May 25, 2022 at 9:32 pm

    Oh wow! These cookies sound absolutely fabulous! Love all the layers and chips! Yum!

    Reply
  16. Tisha says

    May 25, 2022 at 6:01 pm

    I absolutely love these! They are so good and so much fun!

    Reply
  17. Nadalie says

    May 25, 2022 at 12:23 pm

    Oh look at how cure these are! My cousins are cookie addicts! Im sure they will love these!

    Reply
  18. Jen @ JENRON DESIGNS says

    May 25, 2022 at 10:46 am

    These cookies are adorable, I love the cookie monster theme! Such a fun idea for a childhood icon we all love!

    Reply
  19. Monica Simpson says

    May 25, 2022 at 9:37 am

    These look amazing. My 2 favorite cookies in one!

    Reply
  20. Devan says

    May 25, 2022 at 1:49 am

    I absolutely loved these as I’m already a big Oreo cookie kinda guy. I made these for my niece and nephew and they LOVED them! Gonna save this one for Halloween – awesome recipe, thank you!

    Reply
  21. Nancy says

    May 24, 2022 at 11:28 am

    How super adorable are these?!! I’m going to make them for nieces that are coming over this weekend, they’re going to love them.

    Reply

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