Cookie Monster Stuffed Cookies are absolutely delicious! The recipe is blue for Cookie Monster and made with chocolate chips, white chips, Chips Ahoy and OREOs, these are what Cookie Monster dreams about at night.
This recipe is so fun for kids or teens or for parties or any fun get togethers. They would also be great for a baby shower for a boy.
These were inspired by our OREO Cheesecake Cookies, and Homemade Oreo's would go great at a cookie party with our Maraschino Cherry Cookies and Strawberry Lemonade Cookies.
For another fun variation try these cookie monster cheesecake bites.
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Ingredients
Below is a list of ingredients needed for this recipe. Follow our tips on each ingredient for best results.
- butter, only slightly softened, see Top Tip below. I used salted butter. For unsalted butter, you'll want to add a ¼ teaspoons salt.
- granulated sugar
- brown sugar - I used light brown, but dark brown would work fine.
- eggs -I used large eggs in this recipe
- vanilla - we always recommend pure vanilla, but imitation will work in a pinch, especially in this recipe where vanilla isn't the highlighted flavor.
- food dye - completely optional, these taste just as great without the blue food coloring.
- flour - regular, all-purpose flour.
- baking soda
- salt - we used plain table salt in this recipe.
- white chocolate chips
- semi-sweet chocolate chips
- chopped cookies like Chips Ahoy or Famous Amos. We tested this recipe with various types of crisp cookies and didn't find that we or our taste testers had a preference or could even tell.
- OREOs
How to Make Cookie Monster Stuffed Cookies
Use these process shots to help get the results you are wanting. The pictures can help with texture and be a visual guide for best results.
1.Preheat oven to 350*F. Chop Chips Ahoy and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer or using a hand mixer, beat the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
2. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat on high speed for 30 more seconds. Add in the blue food coloring.
3. Mix until well combined. You can play around with the color a bit, it tends to bake pretty green so we added a little bit of purple (you could do a smear or drop of red instead) to get it to a deep blue color.
4. Add the flour, baking soda and salt and mix juuuuust until combined. Be careful not to over mix! Using a spatula, fold in the white chocolate chips, semi- sweet chocolate chips and chopped Chips A'Hoy cookies.
5. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Grabbing a large chunk of dough (about 2 Tablespoons or so) smash it out into a disc shape. Flatten it as much as you can, it will end up the thickness of the chocolate chips. Place an OREO in the center of the dough disc.
6. Get a few more teaspoons of dough and place them on top of the OREO then fold up the edges to wrap around and completely cover the OREO. Bake at 350*F. for 10-12 minutes. The tops will turn matte and the edges will be set and start to turn golden. Though it can be difficult to see the golden color with the blue dough, you can see it if you look carefully.
Hint: Feel free to play around with the dough color. You'll want it nice and dark and to be more on the purple side than the green side, as they tend to bake more green. We added some purple to ours to get the perfect color.
Substitutions and Variations
We love switching things up when we're in the kitchen. Try any of these variations for something a little different.
- Food Coloring - I made a few test batches without any food coloring and they tasted great and looked great too! Also feel free to make them any color for any occasion!
- OREOs - use any flavor of OREO you want, peanut butter, mint, chocolate marshmallow, chocolate, etc.
- Peanut Butter Cookie Monster Cookies- Use peanut butter chips instead of white chips and Nutter Butters instead of Chips Ahoy for the world's most amazing and fun Nutter Butter Cookies. Could also use PB OREOS instead of regular as well!
- Mint OREO Cookie Monster Cookies- Use mint chips instead of white chips and Grasshopper cookies instead of Chips Ahoy. Could possibly use Mint OREOs too!
- Birthday Cake Stuffed Cookies - use sprinkles instead of white chips and Birthday Cake OREOS instead of regular OREOs.
- Tiktok Cookie Monster Cookies- instead of placing an OREO in the center, use 2 rectangles of Hershey's chocolate and stick in the middle instead. If going this route, we recommend adding a cup of chopped OREOs to the batter.
Storing Cookie Monster Cookies
Store in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Reheat in the microwave for 8-10 seconds.
We have not tested freezing these. The OREOs might get mushy upon thawing, but if you would like to freeze, store in an airtight container for up to 2 months.
Top tips
Only slightly soften the butter. We found when testing this recipe that a colder butter helps these particular cookies keep their form. We recommend getting out the butter about 20 minutes before starting if you're in a cold kitchen, 15 minutes before if you're in a normal kitchen (around 70*F) and about 10 minutes before starting if in a hot kitchen. A finger pressed on the butter should leave a slight indent.
Play around with the color. While testing this recipe, we realized they bake much greener than the dough. We recommend adding a little purple or touch of red so the dough is on the purple side and will bake to a cooke monster blue.
Recipe
Cookie Monster Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter I used salted, only slightly softened. Get out about 15 minutes before use.
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- ½ teaspoon liquid blue food coloring + 2 drops purple*
- 3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅔ cup white chocolate chips
- ⅔ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped Chips A'Hoy cookies about 8 regular sized cookies
- 18 OREOs
- *any type of food coloring will work. For a color close to Cookie Monster we recommend a slightly purple blue, as it tends to bake a little green. Note that the dye tends to lighten a bit as cooked also.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*F. Chop up Chips Ahoy cookies into 8-16 pieces each.
- Cream together the slightly softened butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer or with a hand mixer. Beat on high until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and beat another 30 seconds. Add the food coloring and mix to combine.
- Add the dry ingredients and mix on low until just barely combined. Add the white chips, chocolate chips and Chips Ahoy. Fold in with a spatula.
- Grab a large chunk of dough and flatten into a disc shape. Place and OREO in the center. Add a little more dough and place on the top. Fold up the edges and make sure the OREO is fully encased in dough.
- Bake at 350*F. for 10-12 minutes. The tops will turn matte and the edges will be set. If you look carefully you can see the bottom edges just starting to turn golden. Let rest on the baking sheet 3-4 minutes.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days. Reheat in the microwave for 8-10 seconds to make them softer
- We have not tried freezing these cookies. We are not sure how well the OREOs will stand up to freezing and thawing.
- This yields anywhere from 14-18 cookies, depending how much dough you use per cookie.
- Feel free to play around with the dye color. The cookie doughs tend to add some yellow, and we found while testing this recipe that they consistently baked more green than the dough actually was. I added a drop of red to my dough to get a slightly purple blue and it baked to a really beautiful cooke monster blue.
- Make sure not to over bake! I was worried these would take forever to bake because they are a thicker cookie, but they didn't take much longer. They are done when the tops are matte and the edges are set and when they "look" done.
- Use a slightly softened butter for these cookies, it will help them hold their form better. The butter should be cool to the touch and your finger should leave an indent when pressed into the butter.
Nicole says
Found Cookie Monster Cookies on Tiktok and wanted to try them. I liked this idea better so I made it like the recipe, and holy cow! These are some stuffed cookies! They were a hit, my son loved them. Thanks for the recipe.
JC says
These cookies were fun to eat, my kids loved them. We didn't dye them blue, but we did use the chips ahoy and stuffed Oreos inside. Definitely for cookie monsters, which my kids are, lol.