Name: Christmas Cookies: Chewy M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3 1/2 dozen
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 1/2 cups brown sugar; 2 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 tsp lemon juice; 3 1/2 cups flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp baking powder; 3/4 tsp salt; 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips; 1 cup green and red M&M's candy; Cream butter and sugars. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice. Stir in dry ingredients, chocolate chips, and M&M's. Roll in balls and place on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350° for about 10 minutes.

No one can resist these M&M Chocolate Chip 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

Yield: 3 1/2 dozen

Christmas Cookies: Chewy M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip Christmas cookies with red and green M&M's.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon juice
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup green and red M&M's candy
Cream butter and sugars. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice. Stir in dry ingredients, chocolate chips, and M&M's. Roll in balls and place on lightly greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350° for about 10 minutes.

Instructions

Cream butter and sugars in a large mixing bowl. Beat in eggs, vanilla, and lemon juice.
Stir in dry ingredients, chocolate chips, and M&M's.
Roll dough in balls and place on lightly greased or silpat lined cookie sheets.
Bake at 350° for about 10 minutes.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 193 Total Fat: 9g Saturated Fat: 5g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 3g Cholesterol: 27mg Sodium: 139mg Carbohydrates: 27g Net Carbohydrates: 0g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 17g Sugar Alcohols: 0g Protein: 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.

Comments

Colleen

December 24, 2017 at 11:29 am

Tried these cookies today to leave for santa. We added peanut butter m&ms instead of the regular ones. Holy cow are they good.

Anna Perez

December 23, 2015 at 8:35 am

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! 🙂

- Kara
  
  January 8, 2016 at 11:17 am
  
  I bet all your friends were glad you had so many extra! 🙂
  
Elizabeth

December 22, 2015 at 5:35 pm

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!!!

Mik

December 15, 2013 at 12:03 pm

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!

April

December 14, 2013 at 12:05 pm

I can not wait to make these!! About how many cookies does this recipe make?