Chewy, crispy M&M cookies made with a simple sugar cookie dough. These cookies are quick to make with no chilling needed.
Chewy & Crispy M&M Cookies
It wouldn’t be Christmas without baking a couple dozen of M&M cookies. I love this M&M cookie recipe because there’s no chilling needed. If you’re anything like me, sometimes you forget to plan. 🙂
These cookies are the perfect consistency of chewy and crispy, with each bite filled with chocolatey M&M’s.
Even though these are Christmas themed, you can easily swap the festive red and green M&M’s with rainbow M&M’s and make them any time of the year. I hope you enjoy these cookies!
Tips on making perfect M&M Christmas Cookies
M&M Christmas Cookies are super easy to make and there’s no chilling of dough required! Here’s some of my tips that I find that are important in making M&M cookies to prevent them from becoming flat.
- Make sure to use softened butter – not melted – softened. The best way to achieve is this by letting the butter sit out for a few hours, or even overnight. If you use melted butter, your cookies are going to spread out and become flat.
- Don’t over mix the dough. Use a hand mixer to combine the wet ingredients and after that, use a rubber spatula or a spoon to mix the rest of the ingredients in.
- You can use regular sized or mini M&M’s for these cookies. Sometimes I keep the M&M’s whole, but sometimes I like to coarsely chop them up. By chopping them up you’ll have more equally distributed chocolate and I find that it really makes a delicious cookie!
- The cookies will stay fresh, at room temperature, in an airtight container for up to 5 days. But seriously, these cookies aren’t going to last that long if I live with you.
Can You Freeze M&M Cookie Dough?
Yes, this cookie dough will freeze well. The dough can be made ahead of time, placed in a freezer-safe airtight container and stored in the freezer for 3 months. Another option is to freeze individual balls of dough. Freeze the balls of dough, first, for about an hour on a sheet pan. Then store them all in a freezer-safe airtight container in the freezer. This method works well if you don’t want to bake all of the cookies at one time.
Can You Freeze Baked M&M Cookies?
These M&M cookies work great for baking ahead of time and freezing for later. To freeze, place the completely cooled baked cookies in a single layer in a freezer-safe baggie and store in the freezer. When you’re ready to eat your cookies, let them sit at room temperature until they’re soft.
More Recipes for your Cookie Tin
Making a cookie tin? Try my very popular Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies or these delicious Soft Gingerbread Cookies ! And don’t forget the Chocolate Pretzel Cookies , Peanut Butter Blossoms , Chocolate Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies and Snowball Cookies .
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Ingredients
- ▢ 1/2 cup butter very soft – but not melted
- ▢ 1 cup white sugar
- ▢ 1/4 cup brown sugar
- ▢ 1 egg
- ▢ 1 tablespoon vanilla
- ▢ 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- ▢ 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
- ▢ 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- ▢ 1 cup M&M’s whole or chopped
Instructions
- In a large bowl cream together butter, white sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla with hand mixer. Now set aside the mixer and grab a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.
- Add flour, salt and baking soda into the bowl and mix with spatula until a cookie dough forms.
- Fold in M&M’s and mix until they’re equally distributed.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. While the oven is preheating, place your cookie dough into the refrigerator.
- Shape dough into large balls (about 2 tablespoons per cookie) on 2 baking sheets.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes, or until lightly browned at the edges and bottom.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool before eating.
Christmas M&M Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter very soft - but not melted
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup M&M’s whole or chopped
Instructions
- In a large bowl cream together butter, white sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla with hand mixer. Now set aside the mixer and grab a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.
- Add flour, salt and baking soda into the bowl and mix with spatula until a cookie dough forms.
- Fold in M&M’s and mix until they’re equally distributed.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. While the oven is preheating, place your cookie dough into the refrigerator.
- Shape dough into large balls (about 2 tablespoons per cookie) on 2 baking sheets.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes, or until lightly browned at the edges and bottom.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool before eating.
Recipe Created by Pamela Reed for brooklynfarmgirl.com
