M&M Easter Cookies Recipe

Cookies and M&Ms are two of my favorite sweet treat indulgences. It’s hard for me to say no to a cookie and it’s hard for me to pass up a few M&Ms. One of my favorite types of cookie is a cookie with M&M’s in it. So I made these M&M Easter Cookies to enjoy during Easter!

Mmmm. Don’t those look delicious? And quite festive, I might add. I made those little gems yesterday afternoon. I wanted to make a sweet treat with an Easter theme, since Easter is this weekend. I had some Easter M&Ms so I decided to make Easter M&M Cookies! I hope you enjoy this recipe.

M&M Easter Cookies

Recipe: Easter M&M Cookies

Yield: 24 cookies

Prep Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes

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Ingredients

• 1/3 C butter, room temp
• 1/3 C shortening
• 2/3 C packed brown sugar
• 1/3 C sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 2 C all-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 C Easter M&M's, plus more for topping

Instructions

1. Using a stand up mixer, beat together the sugar, eggs, butter, shortening and vanilla with the flat attachment on speed 4.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
3. Beat the flour mixture into the butter mixture on speed 4 until well blended.
4. Fold in the 1/2 C M&Ms.
5. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
6. Roll tsp sized amounts of dough into balls. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet and then press M&M's into top and sides.
7. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are just starting to brown.
8. Cool on a wire rack before serving.

Notes

Adapted from allrecipes.com

A few more Spring treats that you may enjoy:

Baileys Brown Butter Pecan Blondies