M&M Cookies

I have probably been making these cookies longer than anything else I’ve baked, and I’m sure everyone who knows me is wondering, “where are the M&M cookies?” (or maybe not, ha ha). Anyway, here they are – I like using the red and green M&Ms for Christmas, but if I can’t get them, they look festive with the multi-colored ones too! 

M&M Cookies

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup M&Ms

Preheat oven to 375. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside. Let butter soften in bowl of mixer (you can mix by hand if you’re ambitious like that, but I don’t think it makes any difference). Add white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract and mix until combined and looking fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after you add each egg. Add flour mixture a little at a time and mix on low at first, increasing mixer speed gradually (this will save you from a flour explosion).

Add M&Ms and mix in by hand. Drop spoonfuls (around a measuring tablespoon each) onto parchment-paper lined baking sheet. Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool on baking sheet for a minute or two before removing to racks to cool.

Yes, they’re basically Toll House cookies with M&Ms, but I never said they weren’t! What they are is a yummy and festive cookie, perfect for Christmas, or with other M&Ms, for any celebration you’ve got going on – you can use the fall colored M&Ms for Halloween, the red, white, and blue ones for 4th of July, or the multi-colored ones for I Feel Like Cookies Day (I don’t know if there is such a day, but there should be!

Happy baking!