Christmas Cookies With M&M’S

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Christmas Cookies With M&M‘S – Do you enjoy baking Christmas cookies? This is such an easy recipe to make. With a few baking ingredients and a bag of your favorite M&M candies, you can make these easy holiday cookies.

Make and bake these with the kids. Or make them for your Christmas celebrations or holiday gatherings but, honestly, you can make them anytime you are looking for a good crunchy cookie with M & M’s.

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Christmas Cookies With M&Ms

This is an easy cookie recipe to make. My grandkids love eating them and dunking them in milk. I enjoy having cookies to serve my guests and pairing them with coffee. You can make these cookies for Santa. Or bake them for your holiday celebrations.

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The cookies look festive when you use red/green M&M (with nuts) or red/green M&M (without nuts) but, any color will do. You might also like these brownie mix cookies with M & M’s.

We used the milk chocolate candies with nuts but you can easily use the milk chocolate candies without nuts. You will probably need to increase the number of candies if you don’t use the ones with nuts (The candies with nuts are bigger). An example with no nuts would be this small batch of M&M’s cookies I made for spring/Easter.

Cookies With M&M Candies

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cup Butter (softened)
• 3/4 cup Golden Brown Sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup Sugar (granulated)
• 2-1/2 teaspoon of Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1/8 teaspoon Salt
• 2-1/2 cups of Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1-1/4 cup red/green red/green M&M (with nuts) or red/green M&M (without nuts)
  (Plus you will need additional M&M’s to add to the tops of the cookies when they are still warm and just out of the oven.)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F. degrees

1. Cream the butter, sugars, and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Next, add and incorporate the egg.
2. In a separate bowl measure the dry ingredients (all-purpose white flour, baking soda, salt) and whisk them slowly.
3. Combine the wet and dry ingredients by adding the flour mixture slowly to the butter mixture. Repeat until all is combined. Do not over-mix.
4. Stir in the M&M candies.
5. Scoop the cookie dough with M&M’s onto a prepared cookie sheet.
   I like to use a Silpat to line the sheet pan. Or you can line the pan with parchment paper.
6. Place the tray of cookies into the freezer for 20-30 minutes.
7. Next, take the cookie sheet out of the freezer and bake the cookies at 350F. for 15-18 minutes (until golden brown on the bottom).
8. Add additional M&M’s to the top of the baked cookies, while they are warm. Cool on the pan (slightly) before moving them to cooling racks to finish cooling.
9. Repeat the freeze/bake, and top with additional M&M’s process until all the cookie dough is used and the cookies are baked.

Notes: You will need at least one full bag of the M & M candies. These cookies aren’t soft. They are crunchy and good for dunking in milk, hot chocolate, tea, or coffee.

Enjoy these cookies for the holidays or any time of year by swapping out the color of the M&M’s you use! This recipe is easy enough for your cookie-baking parties and cookie swaps…

Serve them on cookie plates, set out the cookies and milk for Santa, or serve them at your celebrations! Enjoy and happy holidays!

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Yield: 18

Christmas Cookies With M&M's

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Christmas Cookies with M&M's are so easy to make. These cookies with chocolate-covered candies are perfect to dunk into milk or pair with coffee or tea...

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Additional Time 20 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cup Butter (softened)
• 3/4 cup Brown Sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup Sugar (granulated)
• 2-1/2 teaspoon of Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1/8 teaspoon Salt
• 2-1/2 cups of Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1-1/4 cup red/green M&M’S (plus additional M&M’S)

Instructions

Cookies With M&M's

1. In a large mixing bowl – Cream the butter, sugars, and vanilla extract. Next, add and incorporate the egg.
2. In a separate bowl measure the dry ingredients and whisk them slowly.
3. Combine the wet and dry ingredients by adding the flour mixture slowly to the butter mixture. Repeat until all is combined. Do not over-mix.
4. Stir in the M&M candies.
5. Scoop the cookie dough with M&M’s onto a prepared cookie sheet.I like to use a Silpat. Or you can line the pan with parchment paper.
6. Place the tray of cookies into the freezer for 20-30 minutes.
7. Next, take the cookie sheet out of the freezer and bake the cookies for 15-18 minutes (or until golden brown on the bottom).
8. Add additional M&M’s to the top of the baked cookies, while they are warm. Cool on the pan before moving them to a cooling rack.
9. Repeat the freeze/bake process until all the cookies are baked.

Enjoy these cookies for the holidays or any time of year by swapping out the color of the M&M’s you use!

Notes

• Use M&M's With or Without Peanuts. Have additional candies to add to the top of the baked cookies after taking them out of the oven.
• You can make these cookies for other holidays too. Do this by swapping out the color of the candies.
• The total amount of cookies may vary based on the size of the cookie scoop you use.
• Make and bake additional cookie batches for larger groups.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

18

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 424Total Fat 20gSaturated Fat 13gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 44mgSodium 200mgCarbohydrates 57gFiber 2gSugar 42gProtein 4g

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