M&M Cookies (with Video!) (2024)

You’ve officially found the BEST M&M cookie recipe! My soft and chewy M&M cookies are easy (NO mixer!) and have the prettiest cookie tops. Recipe includes a how-to video!

The Best M&M Cookie Recipe

I’ve got a fun and colorful M&M cookie recipe for you today! These M&M cookies are so easy to make and are great for baking with kids. You’ll love the simple and flavorful cookie base (it’s very similar to my second best chocolate chip cookie recipe!) and how well it works with the crunchy M&M candies. This one definitely deserves a place in your recipe book!

This recipe would be perfect any holiday; just switch up the classic colored M&Ms with the holiday version for simple and crowd-pleasing Christmas cookies or Easter cookies. It doesn’t get much easier than that 😊

What you’ll love about my recipe:

• No mixer required: these can be made by hand, thanks to melted butter.
• Bakery-style finish: I’m sharing my favorite tip for the prettiest cookie tops!
• Can be made in advance: Chill for a few days, or freeze for months.
• Simple: Just 11 ingredients!

What You Need

My M&M cookie recipe uses staple ingredients you should already have in your pantry. Here are a few of the important ones:

• Melted butter. Many cookie recipes call for you to cream softened butter into sugar. There’s nothingwrong with this technique, but I’ve found that creaming butter and sugar leads to cakier cookies, whileusing melted butter yields chewier, softer cookies that are more buttery and flavorful. Ever since first using this technique with my chocolate chip cookie recipe, it’s become a default for most of the cookie recipes I share, including today’s M&M cookie recipe!
• Brown sugar. I use light brown sugar, but you can use dark brown or even a blend of the two.
• Cornstarch. I love using cornstarch in cookies to keep them soft and prevent them from spreading too much in the oven. While you could leave it out, I highly recommend including it.
• Egg + egg yolk. That extra egg yolk also helps with softness and chewiness–don’t skip it!

SAM’S TIP: Set aside a handful of M&Ms to press into to the tops of your cookies when they come out of the oven. This will give them that bakery-style M&M cookie appearance!

Remember, this is just an overview of the ingredients I used and why. For the full recipe please scroll down to the bottom of the post!

How to Make M&M Cookies

1. Combine the melted butter and sugars, then stir in the eggs and vanilla.
2. Mix together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then gradually add them to the wet ingredients.
3. Stir in the M&Ms until evenly incorporated.
4. Cover the dough and let it chill for at least 45 minutes.
5. Scoop and roll the dough into balls before placing them onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 10-11 minutes, then let the cookies cool completely on their sheet before enjoying.

SAM’S TIP: Your cookies should look slightly underdone when you pull them out of the oven; this is intentional! We’ll let them finish cooking outside the oven on the cookie sheet. This guarantees our M&M cookies will stay soft after long they’ve cooled.

Frequently Asked Questions

Candy and cookies–whats not to like?!

Enjoy!

Let’s bake together!I’ll be walking you through all the steps in my written recipe andvideobelow! If you try this recipe, be sure to tag me onInstagram, and you can also find me onYouTubeandFacebook

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