Valentine's Day M&M Cookies
These Valentine's Day M&M Cookies are the perfect mix of a brownie-like cookie with festive Valentine's colored M&M's. Your family will love them!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (Sweet Cream, Salted - softened)
- 3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
- 2/3 cup Brown Sugar (packed)
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 2/3 cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 bag Valentine's Mix M&M's
Instructions
- Add the flour, cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda to a medium-sized bowl.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients and set aside.
- Cream together the butter and white and brown sugars.
- Add the eggs and the vanilla to the bowl.
- Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add in the dry ingredients 1 cup at a time.
- Mix just until the flour mixture is incorporated into the dough. Do not overmix once you have added the flour. That will make for a tough dry cookie.
- To keep the cookies similar in size, measure 1.8 oz. of dough for each cookie on a food scale. Roll the dough into balls and put them on a prepared cookie sheet.
- Randomly press the M&M’s onto the cookie dough ball. This will allow the colorful M&M’s to show up on the top of the baked cookies. You need to cover the entire cookie dough ball with M&M's or when they back you will end up with a big chocolate cookie with only a couple of M&M's in the middle of it.
- Bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes.
- Allow to completely cool before you store them.
Notes
Cracked M&M's? Don’t worry about any cracked M&M’s. This happens when the M&M candies start to cool when you take them out of the oven – totally normal. The cookies still taste great and the cracks give them character!
Storage/Freezing Tips: These cookies should be stored in an airtight container. And they will stay fresh longer if they are completely cool before you pack them up. We usually add a layer of parchment paper between each row of cookies in our plastic container. They will stay fresh at room temperature for 2-3 days if you store them correctly in an air-tight container. They will last up to 3 months in the freezer.
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