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Christmas M&M Cookies

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Posted:12/20/21
Updated:12/20/21
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Chewy, crispy M&M cookies made with a simple sugar cookie dough. These cookies are quick to make with no chilling needed.

These M&M Christmas Cookies are made with a simple, delicious sugar cookie dough and plenty of chocolate candy pieces. A fun and festive treat for cookie exchanges and gift giving that can easily be customized to suit your occasion!

Chewy & Crispy M&M Cookies

It wouldn’t be Christmas without baking a couple dozen of M&M cookies. I love this M&M cookie recipe because there’s no chilling needed. If you’re anything like me, sometimes you forget to plan. 🙂

These cookies are the perfect consistency of chewy and crispy, with each bite filled with chocolatey M&M’s.

Even though these are Christmas themed, you can easily swap the festive red and green M&M’s with rainbow M&M’s and make them any time of the year. I hope you enjoy these cookies!

These M&M Christmas Cookies are made with a simple, delicious sugar cookie dough and plenty of chocolate candy pieces. A fun and festive treat for cookie exchanges and gift giving that can easily be customized to suit your occasion!

Tips on making perfect M&M Christmas Cookies

M&M Christmas Cookies are super easy to make and there’s no chilling of dough required! Here’s some of my tips that I find that are important in making M&M cookies to prevent them from becoming flat.

  1. Make sure to use softened butter – not melted – softened. The best way to achieve is this by letting the butter sit out for a few hours, or even overnight. If you use melted butter, your cookies are going to spread out and become flat.
  2. Don’t over mix the dough. Use a hand mixer to combine the wet ingredients and after that, use a rubber spatula or a spoon to mix the rest of the ingredients in.
  3. You can use regular sized or mini M&M’s for these cookies. Sometimes I keep the M&M’s whole, but sometimes I like to coarsely chop them up. By chopping them up you’ll have more equally distributed chocolate and I find that it really makes a delicious cookie!
  4. The cookies will stay fresh, at room temperature, in an airtight container for up to 5 days. But seriously, these cookies aren’t going to last that long if I live with you.

These M&M Christmas Cookies are made with a simple, delicious sugar cookie dough and plenty of chocolate candy pieces. A fun and festive treat for cookie exchanges and gift giving that can easily be customized to suit your occasion!

Can You Freeze M&M Cookie Dough?

Yes, this cookie dough will freeze well. The dough can be made ahead of time, placed in a freezer-safe airtight container and stored in the freezer for 3 months.
Another option is to freeze individual balls of dough. Freeze the balls of dough, first, for about an hour on a sheet pan. Then store them all in a freezer-safe airtight container in the freezer. This method works well if you don’t want to bake all of the cookies at one time.

Can You Freeze Baked M&M Cookies?

These M&M cookies work great for baking ahead of time and freezing for later. To freeze, place the completely cooled baked cookies in a single layer in a freezer-safe baggie and store in the freezer. When you’re ready to eat your cookies, let them sit at room temperature until they’re soft.

These M&M Christmas Cookies are made with a simple, delicious sugar cookie dough and plenty of chocolate candy pieces. A fun and festive treat for cookie exchanges and gift giving that can easily be customized to suit your occasion!

More Recipes for your Cookie Tin

Making a cookie tin? Try my very popular Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies or these delicious Soft Gingerbread Cookies! And don’t forget the Chocolate Pretzel Cookies, Peanut Butter Blossoms, Chocolate Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies and Snowball Cookies.

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Christmas M&M Cookies

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Chewy, crispy M&M cookies made with a simple sugar cookie dough. These cookies are quick to make with no chilling needed.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 14 minutes
Total Time 24 minutes
serves 16

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter very soft – but not melted
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup M&M’s whole or chopped

Instructions

  • In a large bowl cream together butter, white sugar, brown sugar, egg and vanilla with hand mixer. Now set aside the mixer and grab a rubber spatula or wooden spoon.
  • Add flour, salt and baking soda into the bowl and mix with spatula until a cookie dough forms.
  • Fold in M&M’s and mix until they’re equally distributed.
  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. While the oven is preheating, place your cookie dough into the refrigerator.
  • Shape dough into large balls (about 2 tablespoons per cookie) on 2 baking sheets.
  • Bake for 13-15 minutes, or until lightly browned at the edges and bottom.
  • Remove from oven and allow to cool before eating.
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
Keyword:christmas M&m cookies
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  1. Jenna J says

    December 9, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    I made these with mini mms and they were delicious!

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  2. Marsha | Marsha's Baking Addiction says

    November 29, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    These cookies look so delicious, and very festive! Yum! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Emma @ Bake Then Eat says

    December 14, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Oh I wish I had some but then again I wouldn’t be able to control myself either and would eat them all in one sitting. Lovely festive cookies!

    Reply
  4. Sues says

    December 14, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    M&Ms are delicious in EVERYTHING. And these are SO many awesome flavors these days that you pretty much don’t need to bake with any other candy ever!

    Reply
  5. Beth says

    December 14, 2014 at 8:05 am

    Ouch! I’ve been there, with giving myself a maximum to eat, and outeating it immediately! Good intentions have to count for something, right?

    Reply
  6. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says

    December 14, 2014 at 6:36 am

    M&M minis?? You Americans get the best stuff. We have to struggle with the big ones. At least this year we do have Christmas colors. 🙂

    Reply
  7. Gwen @simplyhealthyfamily says

    December 13, 2014 at 6:25 pm

    HaaaHaaaaa, I’ve totally done that, I’m not ashamed :}
    The classics are classic for a reason. Love these cookies 🙂
    Happy Holidays love!

    Reply
  8. Caralyn @ glutenfreehappytummy says

    December 13, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    you can’t have xmas without christmas m&ms 🙂

    Reply
  9. marcie says

    December 13, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    I’ve been SO bad with cookies lately! I swear, I eat more in the 2 weeks leading up to Christmas than I do all year. haha These wouldn’t last long for me — they look perfectly chewy and soft!

    Reply
  10. Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says

    December 13, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    M&M cookies are the best! My mom used to make them when I was little and they were one of my favorites! I love this holiday version, so festive and delish!

    Reply
  11. Jamie | Jamie's Recipes says

    December 13, 2014 at 11:53 am

    Festive red and green M&M cookies are my favorite this time of year.

    Reply
  12. Amy @ Fearless Homemaker says

    December 13, 2014 at 9:49 am

    I LOVE M&M cookies and bars, and yours look fantastic! I SO wish I had one (or two, or three) in front of me right now… =)

    Reply
  13. [email protected]'s Recipes says

    December 13, 2014 at 4:25 am

    I can’t get enough of cookies at this time of year too. These cookies with M&M look so delightful and festive!

    Reply
  14. Alice @ Hip Foodie Mom says

    December 12, 2014 at 10:13 pm

    I’ve been the same way with cookies here in the house. . eating 1/2 and then going back 2 seconds later for the other half . . this is why we have January and new years resolutions to get back into shape I guess 😛 and I’m the same way with Target and their candy aisle. . I used to waste so much money in the dollar section (buying stickers and pencils for my kids). now, I just have to avoid that section altogether. 🙂 great cookies!!!

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  15. Jess @ whatjessicabakednext says

    December 12, 2014 at 11:52 am

    These cookies are super cute, Pamela! M&M cookies have to be my most favourite type of cookie! Love these!

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  16. [email protected] Yellow Farmhouse says

    December 12, 2014 at 11:34 am

    These cookies are sooo good they’re ‘A.B.P’ (I just made that up – it stands for ‘Already Been Pinned’!) I didn’t realize M&Ms came in mini sizes – that’s excellent! And thanks for the tip about the containers – they’re cute.

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