These are a little variation on my family chocolate chip recipe. These chocolate chip M&M cookies are so fun to make for the holidays. You just get the holiday bag of M&Ms and add them into your recipe, and BAM. Festive cookies that everyone loves.
Jump to RecipeThis chocolate chip cookie recipe was my moms, and I adjusted it. It used to have shortening in it. I decided to double up on the butter and remove the shortening since my family is eliminated seed oils wherever possible.
We do what we can right, seed oils are literally in almost everything. So I’m not a crazy person about it, but where I can substitute for something else, I will do it.
Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies – Ingredients
You will need your typical cookie ingredients. Eggs, flour, salt, sugar, baking soda, butter, salt and vanilla. In addition, you will need chocolate chips and your M&Ms. Since Valentine’s Day is coming up, I opted to get the festive Valentine’s M&Ms to make these cookies cute and fun. My daughters love it. Chocolate chip M&M cookies are so easy to make festive.
Something I would HIGHLY recommend, and that has CHANGED my baking game for the better, is to save some of your mix-ins and add them on the top after you scoop out your cookies.
Yes, the cookies still have chocolate chips and M&Ms in them even if you can’t see it from the top – but you WANT to see them from the top. It makes your cookies look better, and when they look better they taste better right? They do, its SCIENCE.
Trust me, just look at your little cookie balls on the sheet and take some of your M&Ms, chocolate chips, whatever you are mixing in and add a few to the top of each cookie. They look so much better and taste better, PROMISE.
Those are some cute and happy cookies right there. Notice how they don’t have two of the same color on the top? Yes, that is because I am slightly crazy, a little OCD and because I hand placed those M&Ms on the top. I even added a few chocolate chunks to some of them.
Those cookies look like they want to be eaten. It makes all your cookies look like an amazing cookie. I know when I am looking to eat a cookie, I am judging the cookie by its top so to speak, and I am picking the one with the most yummies on top.
Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies
Equipment
- Stand Mixer
- Cookie Sheets
- Silicone Mat
- Measuring Cups
- Measuring Spoons
- Cookie Scooper
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 0.5 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2.5 cups flour
- 1 tsp soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 0.5 bag chocolate chips
- 0.5 bag m&ms
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugars together.
- Add eggs and vanilla, and mix.
- Add flour, baking soda, and salt and mix.
- Add chocolate chips and M&Ms and mix.
- Bake 10-12 minutes at 350 degrees.
- Cool for 1-3 minutes on pan.
- Move to wire racks to cool completly.
Notes
I hope you love the cookie receipe. If you are in a pumpkin mood be sure to try my other cookie recipe, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. You can swap out the mix-ins and try different variations. Or just do chocolate chips. I will leave you with one last peace of advice. Add the mix-ins with your heart, don’t measure them. Get your costco size bag and just keep dumping until you see enough in your cookies.
Would love to hear what you think – be sure to add your review and leave a comment. I appreciate your support.
Love,
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