If you're looking for the Best M&M Cookies, this is the recipe for you. These homemade sugar cookies are soft and chewy, and loaded with chocolate M&M candies.
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The Best M&M Cookies Recipe
This recipe for M&M Cookies is one of my favorites to make when I need cookies for a bake sale or potluck dinner. They're soft, chewy, colorful, and always a crowd pleaser no matter what age they are for.
These cookies are basically chocolate chip cookies with M&Ms instead of chocolate chips. So, any kind of variation that you might try with chocolate chip cookies, you can try with these.
Feel free to get a little creative and add in different types of nuts, M&M flavors, dried fruit, or chocolate chips. No matter what, this is the best M&M cookies recipe—hands down.

Key Ingredients
- Butter: You can use either salted or unsalted butter - just be sure to skip the margarine. Cookies with margarine just don't have the same flavor. Also, be sure to use room temperature butter when baking.
- Sugar: Just the regular 'ol granulated white sugar works great. You can use coconut sugar or some other substitution in a healthier version of a chocolate chip cookie for this recipe, just the regular white granulated sugar will do.
- Brown sugar: You can use dark brown sugar if that's all you have on hand, It makes the color a little deeper and the taste a little richer but light brown sugar is what you're looking for here too.
- Eggs: Large eggs work great. When baking, it's almost always better to use eggs are room temperature. Why should eggs be room temperature warm when baking? Cold eggs could re-harden the fat, making the batter appear curdled or lumpy and it could possibly affect the texture of the baked product.
- Flour: You can use regular all-purpose flour for this recipe.
- Baking Soda & Baking Powder: Regular baking soda and regular baking powder work great for this recipe too.
- M&M's: You know the drill. Make 'em cute. Use your favorite M & M candy to make a fun and festive treat any time of the year! Mini M&Ms would also work great.

How to Make Homemade M&M Cookies
- Mix together the cookie dough. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, and brown sugar till light and fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla, and salt and mix again. In a separate large bowl, combine the baking powder, baking soda, and flour, then add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix just until combined. Stir in the M&Ms last.
- Scoop. Use an ice cream scoop or spoons to make 2" balls of cookie dough, and place them onto an ungreased baking sheet about 2" apart.
- Bake. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 9-11 minutes, or until golden grown on the edges.
- Cool. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring the cookies to cooling racks. Enjoy!

Storing and Freezing Instructions
- Room Temperature: If you want to store the cookies already baked, just place them in a container with a lid. They will stay fresh for a few days.
- Make-Ahead- You can make the cookie dough ahead of time. It will last in the fridge for a couple of weeks in an airtight container.
- Freezer- Like most cookie doughs, this dough can be frozen and baked at a later date. Simply scoop into balls and place on a parchment-lined pan and freeze until solid. Once frozen, remove from the cookie sheet and place in a freezer bag. They can be stored in the freezer for 3-4 months. You can also store the cookie dough in small Tupperware containers. When you know you're ready to bake the cookies, take the dough out of the freezer and thaw in the fridge for 24 hours before you need it.
- To Bake Frozen Cookie Dough Balls: Defrost for an hour or two in the fridge and bake as directed. If the dough is very cold, you may need to add a minute or two of cook time.

The Best M&M Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter room temperature
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ¾ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 10 oz M&M Candies
- 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla, and salt. Mix together.
- In a separate large bowl, combine the baking powder, baking soda, and flour. Mix until combined.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix. Add the M&M's and mix until combined.
- Drop by 2" balls about 2" apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 9-11 minutes or until golden grown on the edges.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring the cookies to cooling racks. Enjoy!
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If you're looking for the best M and M cookie recipe, this is the recipe for you. These homemade cookies are soft and chewy and so delicious.
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