Fast and fresh M&M cookies are everyone’s favorite for dipping and dunking.
Who doesn’t love a cookie with candy in it? This M and M cookie recipe adds vanilla pudding mix for an extra soft, chewy, and delicious cookie.
You’ll Be Obsessed with These M&M Cookies Because…
- This M&M cookies recipe is so easy to whip up. Even the littlest bakers can help out (but you might need extra M&M’s for ‘quality testing”)
- Vanilla pudding is the not-so-secret ingredient that adds a ‘baked from scratch’ layer of flavor.
- Cookies with M&Ms can be customized to any occasion since they come in different colors that match the holidays or the seasons.
- Double the batch and freeze some of the dough for hot and fresh cookies, bars, or a skillet cookie any time.
Ingredients in M&M Cookies
M&Ms: Regular sized or mini-M&M’s are perfect in this recipe. There are over 60 different flavors of M&M’s including peanut, peanut butter, chocolate mint or crispy rice. Even espresso flavored M&M’s – so anything goes.
Chocolate Chips: Match the chips to the occasion. Chocolate, vanilla, mint, peanut butter, and butterscotch chips are all great with M&M’s.
Dough: Use quality ingredients like butter, real vanilla extract, and most important of all, a high-quality bag of chocolate chips. Vanilla pudding makes the dough pop with flavor, but you could try a coconut, cheesecake, or even chocolate flavor and create your own signature M&M cookie recipe every time.
Add-Ins and Variations: Why stop at M&M’s? This recipe is adaptable for using other candies like chopped Reese’s pieces, skittles, jelly beans, toffee bits, or crushed peppermint candies for a fun Christmas cookie. For holidays, give your M&M cookies some festive flair with colors of the season.
How to Make M&M Cookies
- Cream butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla together until smooth. (Recipe below.)
- Mix in flour, pudding, and baking soda until just combined.
- Stir in chocolate chips and 1 cup of the M&M’s.
- Scoop cookies onto a prepared baking sheet and top cookies with remaining M&M’s.
- Chill the dough for 2 hours (or cover in plastic wrap overnight).
- Bake and cool as directed in the recipe below.
Storing M&M Cookies
- Keep leftover M&M cookies in a covered container or cookie jar at room temperature for up to a week or freeze them in a zippered bag for up to 6 months.
- Make a batch of dough, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap, and freeze for up to 3 months. Let it thaw an hour before baking.
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M&M Cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter softened
- ¾ cup brown sugar packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ¼ cup instant vanilla pudding mix or 2 teaspoons corn starch
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup chocolate chips
- 1 ½ cup M&Ms divided
Instructions
- Using stand mixer with paddle attachment, mix together butter, sugars, egg, and vanilla and beat until combined, about 1-2 minutes.
- Scrape the bowl and add flour, pudding mix, and baking soda and mix until just combined, about 1 minute.
- Add chocolate chips and mix for 30 seconds. Add 1 cup M&Ms and mix for about 15 seconds or until just mixed in, OR mix by hand so they don’t break.
- Using 3 Tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop 15 heaping scoops (or ¼ cup scoop, fairly even scoops) and place on parchment lined baking tray. Evenly divide remaining M&Ms and press into top of each cookie dough scoop.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours (or more).
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line two baking trays with parchment paper and add cookie dough spaced evenly on the sheet (allow 2 inches between cookies).
- Bake for 11-13 minutes, or until edges are just cooked/ browned. They may appear undercooked in the middle. Cool for 10 minutes or longer on baking tray and transfer to cooling rack.
Notes
- Store baked cookies for up to one week at room temperature (if they last that long) or freeze for up to six months.
- Unbaked cookie dough may be frozen up to 3 months. Defrost for one hour and bake as directed.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information does not include optional ingredients or garnish and is an estimate. It may change based on actual ingredients and cooking methods used.
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