Red and Green M & M Christmas Cookies (2024)

These Red and Green M&M Christmas Cookies are such a simple treat that will remind you of the sweetest traditions of Christmas!

Why You’ll Love These Christmas M&M Cookies

• They’re fun and festive!– Sometimes, the decorating aspect of Christmas cookies can really wear a person down – all that frosting and all those toppings – but these easy Christmas cookies look colorful and bright without those extra steps.

• They’re super easy to make!– This Christmas M&M cookie recipe is essentially a fun twist on the tastiest sugar cookie ever. It doesn’t take any special, once-a-year skill! Just mix up the ingredients, put them on a cookie tray, and bake.

• They’re the best texture!– If you prefer chewy cookies that have a slight crispness to the outside and are ultra soft in the center, this M&M cookie recipe is it!

Ingredients Needing For These Christmas M&M Cookie Recipe

• 1 Stick of Butter– This butter needs to be softened in order to cream together well with other ingredients, so set it out on the counter overnight.Softened,remember, not melted!Use unsalted butter if you can. If what you have on hand is salted butter, then simply don’t add the salt as a separate ingredient.
• 1 Cup of Sugar– Use white sugar for this chewy sugar cookie. If you’d like a hint of that rich molasses flavor, trade out half of the white sugar for packed brown sugar.
• 1 Egg– Here’s a tip! Your egg will incorporate more smoothly into your creamed butter and sugar if you set it out early and let it come up to room temperature!
• 2 Teaspoons of Vanilla Extract-Because all delicious cookies have a splash of vanilla extract.
• 2 Cups of Flour– All purpose flour is just fine! If your family uses almond flour or whole wheat flour, just keep in mind that the big difference is that those types of flours soak up more moisture. You’ll either need to add a bit more butter and milk, or not use quite as much flour.
• 1/4 Teaspoon of Salt– If you’re using salted butter, you can skip this ingredient. Salt keeps the cookies sweet without them being too rich.
• 1/4 Teaspoon of Baking Soda–Your leavening agent, ladies and gentlemen! For the best cookies, double check that your box of baking soda is fresh. After it’s been opened for a couple months, it loses its potency!
• 2 Tablespoons of Milk– If you need to avoid dairy, almond milk is just fine!
• 2 Cups of Christmas M&Ms– What makes these Christmas M&M cookies pop is the red and green M&M candies running through them! (Pssst…. is it spring right now? Make Easter cookies by swapping to pastel M&M candies!)

How To Make Red And Green M&M Christmas Cookies

1. Preheat your oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
2. Use a large mixing bowl and hand mixer to cream together the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. You want this to become a smooth and creamy consistency!
3. Mix in the flour, salt, and baking soda into the wet ingredients until well incorporated.
4. Carefully fold your M&M candies into the dough. You want them to be well distributed throughout the cookie dough, but you don’t want to chip off the colorful coating either
5. Scoop cookie dough into balls using a large cookie scoop and space them evenly on your lined baking sheet.
6. For extra festive cookies, make sure that you press a few extra M&M candies on the tops of the cookies! Then, not only do you have M&Ms running throughout, but they’re also showcased front and center.
7. Slide your cookie sheet in the oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until the centers have just set and the very edges of the cookies are golden brown.
8. Leave the baked cookies to set on the hot baking sheet for another 1 to 2 minutes, and then transfer them to a cooling rack.
9. Let the cookies cool down for a few minutes (if you are patient enough!) and enjoy your festive treat!

Top Tip For The Perfect Cookie

Sure, these cookies are delicious if you make the dough and bake them right after, but, if you have the time, chilling the dough for at least 24 hours will give you ridiculously chewy M&M cookies.

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They’re even better if you can leave the dough to chill for up to 3 days!

Chilling cookie dough gives the egg a chance to hydrate the starch in the flour.

It also gives time for enzymes in some of the ingredients to break down the carbohydrates into sugars.

Yay science!

So if you want cookies that are incredibly flavorful, sweeter, and chewier, pop that dough in the freezer for a day or two.

How To Store Leftover Christmas M&M Cookies

Do you have an abundance of leftover holiday cookies on your hands?

Don’t worry – you can save these M&M cookies for up to a week on the counter!

Just make sure you place them in an airtight container first, so that they stay soft.

Freezing M&M Cookie Dough For Later

Jump ahead on the holiday season rush by freezing M&M cookie dough balls for later!

All you need to do is mix up the dough, scoop them out into balls, and place them on prepared baking sheets.

Then pop them in the freezer for 10 minutes. Freezing them spaced out like this keeps the balls from sticking together. Once the dough has frozen, you can slide them off the baking sheet and into an airtight container or freezer bag.

They will last in the freezer for about 3 months. When that holiday party rolls around and it’s time to bake them, simply set the balls of cough on a cookie sheet, allow them to thaw, and bake them as normal!

Fun Twists To Try

• Add milk chocolate or white chocolate chips to your M&Ms
• Add crushed peppermint to make chocolate peppermint cookies
• Use mini M&M candies instead!

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• Hot Chocolate Cookies
• Molten Lava Cookies
• Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chunk Cookies
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