Something amazing happened while I was baking yesterday…I came up with a new M&M’s Christmas Cookie Recipe (new to me anyway, I am sure someone else has thought of this before) that just about knocked my socks off!
I was making Christmas cookies for my friends and for my daughter’s bus driver and thought I’d try something different than the usual gingerbread cookies or sugar cookies. I bought red and green M&M’s on sale at Walgreens this past week so I thought I’d try making an M&M’s Christmas cookie recipe – everyone loves M&M’s, right?
Right.
So I brought down that heavy Kitchen Aide mixer and began mixing my batter…and when it got to the point in the recipe where I was supposed to add an entire 12 ounce bag of M&M’s, I realized that I had eaten almost half of the bag that I had opened on the counter.
I swear, I thought I’d only grabbed a handful! It must have been about three handfuls!
So…I emprovised and used half of a bag of M&M’s and half of a bag of Nestle Tollhouse mini chocolate chips.
The results? Pretty much the best cookie I’ve ever made in my life. So I want to share them with you!
Chocolate Chip M&M’s Christmas Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup of butter (at room temperature)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups regular all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 12-ounce package of M&Ms (I used green and red for Christmas but you can make these year round with any color!)
- 12 ounce package of Mini Chocolate Chips
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and the sugars, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda and salt, then add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
Add M&M’s and Mini Chocolate Chips and either mix by hand or mix in the mixer – I mixed them in the mixer and I like the way there were a little bit of broken M&M pieces in the cookies!
Using teaspoons, drop cookies of about one teaspoon onto cookie sheets making them about two inches apart. I used parchment paper over my pan because it was not nonstick – if you aren’t using parchment paper or a nonstick pan, I suggest greasing your cookie sheet lightly.
Bake for 11 minutes for a cookie that is crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, or 12-13 minutes for a crispier cookie!
Let cool for about 10 minutes – I just slid the parchment paper off the cookie sheet onto my kitchen table so that I could use the cookie sheet for the next batch immediately.
Enjoy!
Oh my gosh, I’m forever thinking that I came up with some new, awesome idea and then I Google it and find it in a million food blogs. But hey, these are new to me, so that counts for something, right? I love M&M cookies! Especially straight out of the oven when the chocolate in the center of the M&M is all melty.
One word = AMAZING!
Will have to try this myself!
Those look amazing! I haven’t had homebaked M&M cookies since i was a kid. I’ll have to do these with the kids.
I could go for one of those right now!
So yummy!
I think that my Nana would have loved this little twist for her Nestle Toll House cookie recipe. The M&Ms really make the cookies look so festive.
Those look so delicious! I love any type of cookies with M&Ms!
Yum! This look so yummy. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I think i’ll try these for our holiday cookies.
My little one would follow you anywhere! He is 2 and LOVES M&M’s and Cookies!! Seriously these look absolutely delicious!! I will have to try this recipe and I bet Santa would like a few himself!! Loved all of your detailed how to pics!!
Okay, I totally have to make these now! OMG YUM!
That looks like something I could make, I love takes on a favorite!
Those sound yummy!
This looks so phenomenal!! I am definitely bookmarking this for the holidays! Thanks!
Oh YUM! I love M&M’s, but whenever I make them, like you, I end up eating half the bag. Good idea adding the chocolate chips in there.
Very neat, I actually was planning to make both chocolate chip and M&M cookies today. Now I am going to take your idea and just make one batch with both chocolate chips and M&Ms.
Happy xmas!
You can never have too much chocolate in a recipe, yum!
Those look delicious!
MIne are in the oven…..great recipe! – Thanks!
So did you use the full bag of both the M&Ms and chocolate chips? These look deliciou!
Yes, you SHOULD use a full bag, but I ate quite a few of mine so mine had a little less 🙂 I’ve made the recipe a few times since then and used a full bag of both M&M’s and chocolate chips. They are SOOOO good! 🙂
Hi! These look perfect! How many cookies did this recipe make?
These look incredible! I will be making these this week for sure 🙂
While in Vietnam in 1965, I received a goody package from a young school girl. (a class project)
M&M Christmas cookies, with imperial red hot candies in with the M&Ms.
I make them every year for the family
These look so good! Would you know if they could be made with less sugar for diabetics? I’ve had in the past success substituting Splenda for the white sugar and used Splenda Brown Sugar for the Brown Sugar in other recipes, and it worked really well. I know M & M’s have sugar in them, but if using the baking Splenda would work for the cookie, the only sugar would be the candy. I have a diabetic husband and other family members that I am thinking about to make as sugarless a cookie as possible for them. Thanks!
You can definitely replace the sugar with SPLENDA products! I used to be a Splenda ambassador and remade tons of recipes using their substitution guide. Let me know how they turn out!