ShareThisThis was a last-minute idea incorporating Snickers with an oatmeal peanut butter cookie. Results were great! Just make sure you let them cool completely so that the Snickers firm back up after baking. They’re not so good right out of the oven because the chocolate is all goopy.
I still don’t have the bulb for my light box so the Cookie Madness photos are odd lit. For those intersted in light boxes, my light box look like this. The lights aren’t that hard to replace, I’m just too lazy to go buy one.
Snickery Peanut Butter & Oat Cookies
4 oz (1 stick) unsalted butter, slight cool, cut up — 114 grams
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed — 100 grams
1/2 cup granulated sugar — 96 grams
1/2 cup peanut butter (Skippy) — 135 grams
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (2 ml)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (2 ml or 2 grams)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda (2 ml or 2 grams)
3/8 teaspoon salt (omit if using regular salted butter or margarine)
1 cup all purpose flour (4.5 oz or 130 grams)
1 cup oats, quick cooking or old fashioned (not instant) — 80 grams
½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips — 84 grams
½ cup chopped up Snickers bars — 80 grams
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F or 177 C.
Beat butter and both sugars with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in the peanut butter, then add egg and beat for about 30 seconds. Beat in the vanilla, baking powder and baking soda. If using unsalted butter, add the salt. Stir in the flour, then stir in the oats, chips and Snickers.
Using a tablespoon, scoop up dough and shape cookies into balls about an inch around. Bake for 13-15 minutes. If Snickers melt off the cookie, quickly push them back into the cookie using side of a spatula. Let sit on cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Makes about 3 dozen
Hmm,,,I should try putting Snickers into my husband’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies (aka Katrina’s mother’s recipe). Then he’d have all his favorites in one cookie!
What a great idea! That’s a good way to use up some Halloween candy. My son would be so happy if I made these for him.
Thanks for the link to the light box. I’ve wanted one for a long time. This seems like a great price! I put it in my Wish List.
Oh my…I almost even want to go out and buy Snickers just to make these cookies! They look so good.
Maybe I should try a light box b/c I do not have the best lighting in the world.
I didn’t think you could improve on oatmeal cookies, I guess I was wrong. These look delicious.
Mimi
These look awesome!! I love candy bars in cookies! YUMMY! I DO agree, though, that letting them cool is probably the best idea, just in my other tries at adding any type of candy bar to a cookie =) Thanks for the new recipe!
ohhh what yummy goodness! nice way of using Halloween treats
Treats, treats, treats. We’re (the husband and I) kind of tired of all the candy going into the boy’s mouths! But cookies, there, I have no problem with!
CindyD, awww, thanks for liking “my” oatmeal cookie recipe so much. Makes me want to make them again!
That last minute addition sounds perfect! Made me crave a snickers bar actually.
Hi!
I write from Hungary. I’d like to make cookies, but we don’t use “cup”. Please tell me ingredients in gram..Please…, please I love cookies:)
I love the idea of adding Snickers to a PB cookie recipe! I have also tried melting them with some cream and drizzling over the top of brownies, so yummy!
Hi Anna
Did you use the creamy peanut butter or the crunchy peanut butter.