M&M Christmas Cookies are a delicious, chewy vanilla cookie covered in Mini Holiday M&M’s. These easy Christmas cookies are not only festive looking but taste great too.
Welcome back for DAY FOUR of Christmas Cookies! If you are new around these parts and have missed the others, check out my Chocolate Peppermint Cookies and the best ever Peanut Butter Cookies!
Christmas Cookies with M&M’s- The Perfect Festive Christmas Cookie
The classic green and red M&M’s give this cookie a fun polka dot look that screams all things Elves, Santa and snow.
Plus, they taste really good, to boot. ?
One of my favorite parts of Christmas Time Baking is getting my kids involved. These cookies are the perfect, kid-friendly cookie. Not just for eating, but for making, too!
The balls of dough are literally rolled in those little M&M’s. This is the perfect job for tiny hands! Although, I will warn, you may want a few extra M&M’s. Those tiny things seem to disappear when kids are in charge of this step.
The cookie base is one of my favorites. I used the base of my Double Trouble Chocolate Chip Cookie to make these.
The cookie is chewy and full of vanilla flavor. This will quickly become your favorite cookie base, too. The absolute perfect balance of all ingredients!!
How to make M&M Christmas Cookies
The cookie base is made with simple, everyday ingredients. Butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt and baking soda.
Once the cookie dough has come together, scoop out the dough into equal sized balls. I really like to use a cookie scoop for this step. Not only does it create equal sized cookie dough balls but it saves so much time!!
Once the dough has been scooped, it will take a nice tumble in a bowl full of Mini Holiday M&Ms. Really press the M&Ms on, and I packed them as tightly as I could.
After I repeated scooping and M&Ming the remaining dough while trying to keep little, slobbery fingers out of the M&Ms, I pressed down on the cookie and flattened them a bit before baking.
If you’d like your cookies a bit thicker, with less spreading, refrigerate the cooke dough balls for 20 minutes prior to baking.
Bake them at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are puffy.
Pull them out of the oven and let the cookies cool on the pan for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
Best eaten the same day, but will stay fresh in an air tight container for a day or two.
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M&M Christmas Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 bags mini holiday colored M&M’s
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Cream together the butter, both sugars, egg and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking soda.
- Mix the dry ingredients with the creamed mixture. Mix well.
- Scoop into balls and then roll in mini M&M’s. Press the M&M’s into the cookie dough ball.
- Bake at 350° for 9-11 minutes or until the tops are no longer glossy.
- Best if eaten the same day but will stay fresh for a couple of days in an air tight container.
Bonnie Duke says
Hello! These cookies look delicious! I’m planning on making them this week, but could you please clarify the amount of baking soda? I’m pretty sure 34 tsp is a typo 😉 Thank you!
karlibitner says
Haha YES! Definitely missing a little something Isn’t it? It should read 3/4 tsp. ? thanks for being my extra set of eyes! I’ll get that fixed asap. ?
Haley says
These are the most festive cookies I have ever seen. I love it!
karlibitner says
Thanks, Haley! Hope you love these fun cookies!
LIZ says
I’m planning on making these today but my grocery store only had regular size holiday M&Ms… will this still work ok?
Willa says
This recipe was a complete flop for me. The first batch I put in the oven for 11 min came out half raw. Had to toss them. The second batch I left in the oven for 13 min and they came out to hard. I put both batches in the refrigerator before I baked them and I think that may have been the problem.
Lindsey says
Do these freeze well? I’d like to make them a week ahead of a party, freeze and pull out the day of.
Karli Bitner says
Yes, They freeze great! Merry Christmas!
Karli Bitner says
Yeah, putting the cookie dough in the fridge prior to baking will throw everything off. Only put them into the refrigerator if the recipe calls for it. Sorry this wasn’t more of a success for you!
Karli Bitner says
You could add the regular M&M’s into the dough instead of rolling the dough in the M&M’s. That may work better.
Alice says
I’d I’d not have m n ms so I used Heath bar pieces and broken up dark chocolate. Very good!!
Anna Schaub says
These were really good and rolling them in mini m&m’s make them look so pretty.
Wondering if you’ve ever tried rolling them in mini chocolate chips and if it had the same effect or if the chocolate would burn on the bottom? Might try it some time, but figured I’d ask around first.
Excellent recipe I’m saving.
Karli Bitner says
I haven’t ever tried that- it would be so pretty though! I do worry about the chocolate burning on the bottom, so maybe just roll on the top? Glad you enjoyed them!