I love baking Christmas cookies and thought I'd try to come up with a new M&Ms Christmas Cookie Bars Recipe to share with you all!
It's the most wonderful time of the year...with lots and lots of Christmas cookies! Heck, even if you don't celebrate Christmas, 'tis the season to stuff your face with party food and sweets, right?
M&Ms Christmas Cookie Bars Recipe
I started with a Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip pan cookie recipe and added seasonal M&M's Christmas Baking Bits
and some of those extra cute Nestle Toll House Holiday Morsels
.
I substituted Crisco for the butter that the original recipe called for and the result was a sweet, chocolaty, moist cookie bar that is sure to be a hit at your holiday party this year!
This Christmas Cookies Bars Recipe is a pretty simple recipe, and I think it will be perfect for making cookie bars throughout the year. Just change the chocolate chips for regular ones and you can buy any kind of M&M's - or omit them altogether and just add extra chocolate chips!
Looking for other Christmas recipes like my M&Ms Christmas Cookies Bars Recipe?
Check out these really fun Christmas recipes on The Rebel Chick. I am always adding new recipes, especially during the holiday months, like this Christmas Pretzel Rolo Snacks Recipe!
Take a look and see if there is anything that sounds tasty to you! You might want to start off with our Cake Mix Christmas Sugar Cookies Recipe!
How to Make This M&Ms Christmas Cookie Bars Recipe
Ingredients needed to make this Christmas Cookies Bars Recipe
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup Crisco (or you can use butter)
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup light brown sugar - firmly packed
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup M&Ms baking bits or Mini M&Ms
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Directions for making this Christmas Cookies Bars Recipe
Preheat your oven to 375. Spray a 13x9 baking dish with nonstick cooking spray, then cut a piece of parchment paper to fit inside the dish so that the bottom is completely covered. Spray that with nonstick cooking spray too.
BELIEVE ME - these are necessary steps if you'd like your cookie bars to come out of the baking dish without falling apart and sticking!
Combine the Crisco, vanilla, eggs and sugars and beat until light and creamy.
Add the dry ingredients and beat for one minute, or until a thick dough forms.
Stir in chocolate chips and M&M's by hand - you don't want to crumble them!
Pour into your baking dish and cook at 375 for 20 minutes.
Remove the baking dish from the oven and inset a toothpick into the center - make sure that it comes out clean!
Then let them cool for about 30 minutes before cutting into squares. Depending on the size of your squares, this recipe will make 9-12 M&Ms Christmas Cookie Bars.
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Christmas Cookies Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup Crisco or you can use butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chips
- 1 cup M&M's baking bits they're basically mini M&M's
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375. Spray a 13x9 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray, then cut a piece of parchment paper to fit inside the dish so that the bottom is completely covered. Spray that with cooking spray too.
- Combine the Crisco, vanilla, eggs and sugars and beat until light and creamy.
- Add dry ingredients and beat for one minute, or until a thick dough forms.
- Stir in chocolate chips and M&M's.
- Pour into your baking dish and cook at 375 degrees for 20 minutes.
Penelope says
Oh my gosh, does that look delicious! Jenn, what are you doing to me, stop making me addicted to your blog!
Heather says
These look so good! My family would love to gobble these up!!
Liz Mays says
Those festive colors added to the bars really make them irresistible!
Anne - Mommy Has to Work says
If I made that I would too much of it! It looks so good!
Nicole Dz says
Yummy colorful goodness, love the green and red M&M's in this. Awesome sweet treat for the holiday season.
Colleen says
Yum that looks so rich and tasty.
Raijean says
Yes, those cookies look amazing. I'm going to try this and see how it comes out.
Jennifer Tilson says
Bar cookies are so under appreciated! All the glamour of cookies with less work. And, these are colorful to boot! They wouldn't last in our house.
HilLesha says
I normally don't like M&Ms, but that looks so good that I''d eat it without a second thought!
M.Clark says
These Christmas Cookies Bars look delicious, I can't wait to try them, I'll make them with M&Ms and without. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Angelica M says
Look delicious! Love how the use of different colors to make every occasion special!
Tammy Litke (@threedifferent) says
Definitely a winner recipe to bring along to a social gathering. Kids and adults alike will eat them up fast I bet!
Rust says
Looks like a keeper to me ...perfect for the care packages I will be sending out for Christmas. Thanks!
megan b says
Have you tried the recipe with milk? Or are they chewy already? This recipe sounds delish!
christina p says
These look great! my daughter would love to make this...and eat it too!
Heather in VA says
This looks so yummy! I think it would be good with mint m&m's!
vanessa: thequeenofswag says
Those looks super tasty and so festive. Thanks so much for sharing the great recipe.
Ty says
These look utterly delicious and so festively colorful.
Crystal says
I know my kids would adore these. The red & green make them really festive & fun!
Sarah Matos says
My girls would love to make these. We are always looking for new holiday treats to make.
Anne says
As much as I love cookies (and that is a lot!), I don't often make them because all that shaping is just too fussy. I love the idea of cookie bars, which I am always more likely to make, and these look so pretty with the Christmas candies. Thank you for the recipe. I'm adding it to my list for holiday baking.
Tania B says
How festive and yummy! I might just make it this week. Thanks
jane martin says
I love making cookies into bars, much easier.
s.w. says
Love this idea! I would love to have this after school or work.This would also be great for after brunch.
Kyla @HouseofHipsters.com says
I could so go for one of these bars right now! Yum! We would love to have you share them at our link up party Found & Foraged this Friday at 8PM Central Time (normally it starts on Saturday at 8PM, but this week only it starts on Friday). I hope you can make it over to http://houseofhipsters.com/
Jenn says
Thanks so much, I am going to try to make it! 🙂
sasha payne says
these look great!
Rhonda Martin says
These would so kill my diet but I could always make it for my friend who is addicted to M&M's lol She would devour these~!
Bren says
How long will these store & save to have for events during the Christmas & Holiday Season?
Sarah says
I made these tonight and they turned out awful. All the chocolate chips fell to the bottom. I used butter and it is a greasy mess. I did notice that you say to use a 9x13 pan but you show a 9x9 square pan. I used a 9x13 so maybe that's where I went wrong.
Jenn says
Oh no! I am sorry that it didn't turn out for you. I showed a 9x9 square pan in my photo, but that is because I used two pans because I made a bigger batch - I made a lot for gifts. I find that butter is more greasy than Crisco but wow, it shouldn't have been that bad 🙁
Marcie W. says
I would be interested in making these with Valentine's Day M&Ms for all three of my children's classrooms. Such a colorful fun treat.
Katie says
Ive made 2 batches of these already for Christmas. They are a hit with all the cookies we give to friends and family. And I cant stop eating them!!
Abby says
Sadly, I agree with the other comment about the greasiness. Just got these out of the oven and they are way too mushy and greasy, definitely inedible. I used butter instead of Crisco, so maybe that's where it went wrong. They smell great, but didn't turn out as I hoped 🙁
Linda says
I made these at Christmas time and used m&m peanut butter and m&m peppermint chips. They were delicious and a big hit with the family!
KARLA J. says
For the last five years these have been my Grandkids #1 most requested Christmas Cookie recipe. We always use regular plain m&m's instead of the mini's & the bars taste awesome! Last year we shared them with my parents & they too loved them! Thank you for sharing this recipe with us.
Merry Christmas!
Jenn says
AW! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with me, it means so much to me! Merry Christmas!
Jocelyn says
Hello! Are you sure you used a 13’ x 9’ pan? In the photo it looks square to me.
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Prepared the recipe according to your directions but it’s quite thin in my 13 x 9?
Jenn says
The larger the dish, the thinner they will be! Let me know how they taste! 🙂