We're sharing the perfect recipe for M&M's™ chocolate chip cookies—it makes a huge batch of gooey, sweet, festive treats! Serve up a platter of Chocolate Chip M&M's™ Christmas Cookies at your next holiday party, or have a cookie baking night with the family and put those extra hands to work scooping and arranging dough. These red and green M&M's™ cookies also make the perfect gift for friends and neighbors. Just wrap a few cookies up in a pretty bag or cookie tin. Use different colors of chocolate candies to make these M&M's™ chocolate chip cookies a hit at any time of year.
More About This Recipe
- These scratch-made chocolate chip M&M’s Christmas cookies belong on every cookie tray! They have all the flavor of a traditional chocolate chip cookie but with twice the chocolate and a splash of festive color -- thanks to the red and green M&M’s. Kids young and old will scoop these up by the handful to enjoy with their favorite drink. We love the idea of packing these up in little cellophane baggies to hand out to family and friends during the holiday season. To make sure these giftable treats turn our perfectly every time, check out Betty’s cookie cheat sheet. And if M&M’s aren’t your thing, but you love the idea of gifting chocolate chip cookies, Betty had hundreds of chocolate chip recipes for you to choose from.
Chocolate Chip M&Ms™ Christmas Cookies
- Prep Time 2 hr 20 min
- Total 2 hr 35 min
- Servings 108
- Ingredients 11
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups butter or margarine, slightly softened
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 4 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 bag (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips (2 cups)
- 1 bag (14 oz) M&M's® chocolate candies
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat butter, shortening, sugars, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (dough will be stiff). Stir in chocolate chips and chocolate candies.
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Step2On ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by level teaspoonfuls or #70 cookie/ice cream scoop about 2 inches apart.
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Step3Bake 10 to 11 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
Nutrition
100
Calories
4 1/2g
Total Fat
0g
Protein
13g
Total Carbohydrate
9g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 100
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 7%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 13%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 55mg
- 2%
- Potassium
- 35mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 13g
- 4%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 9g
- Protein
- 0g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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