In middle school, I became friends with a girl who lived across town. Because we were both in band (I played flute; she played tenor sax!), we ended up with similar schedules and a few of the same classes.
During many weekends throughout the years, my mom drove me to her house for sleepovers. She dropped me off mid-afternoon, which gave us plenty of time to decide what we wanted for dinner, flip through magazines, walk to the park, paint our nails… Or whatever else we felt like doing.
Regardless of what fun activities we picked, we always loved those nights without homework… Where we could sleep in the next day instead of waking up at 6 am for our A Period PE class!
However, our nights usually ended with desserts and a movie once we finished eating dinner. Although we started out by watching VHS tapes (remember those??) in the beginning of the year, my friend’s mom eventually rented DVDs a few times once we figured out that we could play the discs on their family’s computer.
On those evenings, we grabbed pillows and blankets, and we curled up on the few feet of floor space in their tiny office to watch the movies. We turned out the lights to make it feel like a theater, and sometimes, if we had eaten a bit too much chocolate and didn’t feel sleepy after the first film, we popped in a second.
Although we often gravitated towards movies with regular actors, one of our favorites was the animated “Monsters Inc.” By the end of middle school, we had watched it enough times to quote over half of the movie, and whenever one of us would squawk, “Mike Wazowski!” in the same voice as the character, both of us would dissolve into giggles.
Although monster cookies aren’t actually named after Sully, Mike Wazowski, or the other monster characters (or any monsters, for that matter!), I still think of that movie every time I bake them… Including when I whipped up a batch of these Healthy Flourless Chocolate Monster Cookies a few weeks ago!
These cookies are extremely soft and chewy with lots of cozy oats, nutty peanut butter, and rich chocolate flavor. And if the flourless chocolate cookie dough wasn’t enough… They also include chocolate chips and M&Ms!
Quite a delicious mouthful, in my not-so-unbiased opinion… And nobody who tasted them could believe they’re 100 calories!
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