Full Batch
12 eggs
1 lb butter or margarine (4 sticks – 2 cups)
3 lbs peanut butter
2 lbs brown sugar (1 bag –
5 ½ cups packed)
4 cups white sugar
1 TBSP vanilla (3 tsp)
I TBSP corn syrup
1 TBSP baking soda
16 cups oatmeal
2 cups flour
1 lb raisins (2 ¾ cups)
1 lb chocolate chips
(2 2/3 cups – 16 oz)
1 lb M&Ms (plain and/or baking) (2 2/3 cups – 16 oz)
Half Batch
6 eggs
½ lb butter or margarine (2 sticks – 1 cup)
1 ½ lbs peanut butter (3 cups)
1 lbs brown sugar (2 ¼ cups packed)
2 cups white sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ tsp corn syrup
1 ½ tsp baking soda
8 cups oatmeal
1 cup flour
½ lb raisins (1 3/8 cups)
1/2 lb chocolate chips
(1 1/3 cups – 8 oz)
1 lb M&Ms (plain and/or baking) (1 1/3 cups – 8 oz)
¼ Batch
3 eggs
½ cup butter or margarine (1 stick)
1 ½ cups peanut butter
1 1/8 cups packed brown sugar (1/2 lb)
1 cup white sugar
¾ tsp vanilla
¾ tsp corn syrup
¾ tsp baking soda
4 cups oatmeal
½ cup flour
2/3 cups raisins
¼ lb chocolate chips
(2/3 cup – 4 oz)
1 lb M&Ms (plain and/or baking) (2/3 cup – 4 oz)
Preheat oven at 350º F.
Mix baking soda, oatmeal and flour together in a bowl. Set aside. (Oatmeal can be used instead of flour, but the cookies become thin and crispy, instead of cakelike.)
Mix M&Ms, chocolate chips, and raisins together in a bowl. Make sure raisins are not clumped together. Set aside. (Plain M&Ms tend to slide out of the cookie dough. Can use either or a combination of both types of M&Ms for variety. Can use a variety of chips – semisweet, milk chocolate, vanilla, mint, peanut butter, mini.)
Cream the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and white sugar. (Peanut butter can be creamy or chunky, or a combination.) Mix the eggs, vanilla, and corn syrup into the butter/sugar mixture. Gradually stir in the oatmeal mixture. Gradually stir in the M&M/chip/raisin mixture. Make sure it is blended well.
Put dough on ungreased cookie sheet in rounded spoonfuls. The dough will flatten (like a chocolate chip cookie) so leave room between each spoonful. Bake at 350º F for 8 to 10 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool on the cookie sheet for a minute or two to set up, then remove them to a cooling rack to complete cooling.