No one can resist these M&M Christmas Cookies – they are soft, chewy, and loaded with chocolate.
One of my very favorite things to make is cookies. I can pass up candy, but fresh baked cookies? Not so much. With Christmas just around the corner, I am already thinking about neighbor gifts. I love giving homemade goodies to our neighbors, so I decided to share some cookie recipes.
Every day this week I will be sharing a different cookie recipe, so if you love cookies like I do, stay tuned! Today I am sharing a perfect Christmas cookie recipe– M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies!
The red and green M&M’s make these cookies look so festive. And they add to the fun factor. My kids always sort through the batch looking for the cookie that has the MOST M&Ms. Every time.
These chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy, just like I like them. The lemon juice seems a little strange, but you can’t taste it. It just performs some kind of chemical magic trick and makes the cookies pretty and puffy. Promise.
If you don’t have M&M’s, these also make fabulous regular chocolate chip cookies. I add chopped pecans, because I like things a little nutty. 🙂
M & M Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
Red & green M&M's, two types of chocolate, and a secret ingredient make these the best M&M Christmas cookies!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp lemon juice (fresh or bottled)
- 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1 10 oz bag Christmas M&M's, divided
Instructions
- Let your butter come to room temperature. Spray cookie sheets with cooking spray, or line with silicone liners. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cream butter and sugars for 2-3 minutes in a large mixing bowl with an electric hand mixer. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice just until combined.
- Add flour, make a well in the flour. Add baking soda, baking powder, and sat to the well, stir into the flour just a bit.
- Add the chocolate chips, half of the M&M's, stir just until all the flour is incorporated.
- Use a cookie scoop to scoop dough, then roll into balls. Place on lightly greased or silpat lined cookie sheets. Press a few of the reserved M&M's into the tops of the cookie dough balls.
- Bake at 375° for about 8-9 minutes or until edges are light brown and centers are barely set.
- Cool on pans for 3-4 minutes, then remove to cooling racks.
Notes
If your dough seems sticky, chill it for 20-30 minutes before rolling your dough balls. If it's to soft, your cookies will spread too much.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
42Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 193Total Fat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 139mgCarbohydrates: 27gNet Carbohydrates: 0gFiber: 1gSugar: 17gSugar Alcohols: 0gProtein: 2g
You can never have too many Christmas cookie recipes, right? Here’s a few more:
White Chocolate Dipped Gingersnaps
Raspberry Ribbon Cookies
Caramel Filled Bon Bon Cookies
Easy Sugar Cookies
For all my cookie recipes, click HERE.
Tried these cookies today to leave for santa. We added peanut butter m&ms instead of the regular ones. Holy cow are they good.
I double this recipe bc I needed to make enough for 2 parties. It made 117 cookies! I did a drop cookie and used a medium Pampered Chef scoop. I was too lazy to roll balls. It was way more than I needed but I was able to give them away as gifts to neighbors and family friends! Mine came out exactly like the picture. They were puffy after 10 minutes of being in the oven but that’s just they were not done yet. Another 2 minutes and they were nice and pretty! š
I bet all your friends were glad you had so many extra! š
I just baked these, and they came out PERFECT! They look nice and puffy (my husband was amazed how perfect they came out he thought I bought them from the local bakery) the lemon juice I guess was the trick. They taste amazing. I decided not to use any chocolate chips, just some green and red M&M’s. It made about 30 cookies! Definitely keeping this recipe and Santa is going to be a happy guy!!!
Made them yesterday with my 3 girls… They are puffy for sure and taste more like short bread. They didn’t come out looking like the picture. Was expecting a more traditional cookie. My husband likes them!
I can not wait to make these!! About how many cookies does this recipe make?