Published on June 15, 2022 M&M Cookies-Everyone’s favorite chocolate candy brightens up these soft and chewy cookies! Kids and adults go crazy for these M&M Cookies! They are the BEST! The cookies are soft, chewy, and dotted with bright M&M’s. Kids and adults go crazy for these cookies! The rainbow of colors always wins people over and then they take a bite and they are 100% sold! These are the BEST M&M cookies! I guarantee they will be a family favorite cookie recipe! My boys request them often so I always try to keep a big bag of M&M’s in our pantry. They come in handy for my Monster Cookies and Monster Cookie Bars too.
Cookie Ingredients
All-purpose flour– fluffed, spooned, and leveled. Never pack your flour when measuring. Baking Soda & Baking Powder– to give the cookies a nice lift in the oven. Salt– to balance out the sweet. Unsalted butter– at cool room temperature. You don’t want the butter too warm or your cookies will spread in the oven and be too greasy. The butter should give just a little when pressed. Sugar– you need brown sugar and granulated sugar for this cookie recipe. Eggs– use large eggs. Pure vanilla extract– yes, you will need 1 tablespoon, it isn’t a typo:) I love vanilla! M&M’s– colorful, fun, and delicious! Try not to eat them all before baking the cookies, ha! Flaky sea salt– for sprinkling on cookies when they come out of the oven. The perfect finishing touch!
What Kind of M&M’s to Use
For this M&M Cookie recipe, I like to use plain milk chocolate M&M’s. You can’t go wrong with a classic! If you want to mix things up you can use dark chocolate, peanut butter, crispy, mint, or any other of their fun flavors. I just prefer the classic. If you are making the M&M Cookies for a holiday or game day, you can color coordinate your M&M’s with the holiday or your team colors! You can special order colors online or if you have patience, you can pick through bags of M&M’s to get the colors you need, a good job for the kids..ha! And if you want to add in chocolate chips WITH the M&M’s you can, but I use all M&M’s for this M&M cookie recipe so the M&M’s are the star!
How to Make M&M Cookies
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Line a large baking sheet with a Silpat baking mat or parchment paper and set aside.In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. Using a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars together for about 1 minute. Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined. With the mixer on low, slowly add in dry ingredients. Using a spatula, gently stir in the M&M’s, being careful not to break too many of the candy shells! Don’t over mix! Form the cookie dough into balls, about 2 tablespoons of dough. Place on prepared baking sheet 2 inches apart.Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes or until edges are slightly golden brown. Remove from oven and sprinkle with flaky sea salt. You can also gently press extra M&M’s on top of the cookies to make them extra pretty. I always do this:) Let cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack and cool completely.
How to Store M&M Cookies
Once cooled completely, you can store M&M Cookies in an airtight container on the counter for 3 to 5 days. Refrigerating will dry them out, so I recommend room temperature storage! If you want to keep the cookies super soft, you can put a slice of bread in the container with the cookies. The piece of bread will get hard, but the cookies will stay soft! Cool, huh?
More Cookie Recipes:
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin CookiesSnickerdoodlesOatmeal CookiesChocolate Lovers Chocolate Chip CookieSoft Peanut Butter CookiesClassic No Bake CookiesMonster Cookies
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