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Christmas M&M Cookies. Made with delicious vanilla cookie base, holiday M&M’s and instant pudding powder.
Here’s an early Christmas present for you…the most delicious Christmas M&M cookies. When we say these are the best M&M cookies you will ever taste, we aren’t joking! They are the perfect combination of chewy and soft, and have the delicious M&m candies throughout.
You may know by now that we love a delicious cookie all year round, so creating a delicious M&M cookie this year for Christmas seemed fitting.
This post is all about Christmas M&M Cookies.
Christmas M&M Cookies
The Inspiration Behind These Cookies
Several years ago, we started making holiday cookie boxes to our neighbors and friends. We loved the process of baking the cookies and then showing our friends how much we cared for them.
The assortment of cookies included these M&M cookies, and they became a staple to include every year. Our friends would request them all the time, so we knew we had created something pretty special.
What’s in the M&M Cookies?
Brown Sugar: The brown sugar makes these cookies super moist and delicious. There is molasses in brown sugar, so when it bakes and reacts with baking soda, the cookie gets more puffy.
Vanilla Instant Pudding: The addition of the instant pudding in these cookies makes the Christmas M&M cookies softer.
Holiday M&M’s: Since these are festive for Christmas, we of course added the holiday M&Ms to the dough. Feel free to use any color of M&M you would like!
What Is Instant Pudding Mix Used for in Baking?
You may have heard of adding instant pudding mix to cakes and cookies before. We think that the addition is genius and delicious. We love eating a soft and chewy cookie, the instant pudding helps to create one.
The addition of instant pudding in cookies makes them softer. When baking with instant pudding mix, your cookies won’t be as tough and crispy.
Other Variations of this M&M Cookie
You can make these Christmas M&M cookies year round! All you have to do is swap the Christmas M&Ms with regular M&Ms or other colored M&Ms depending on the holiday!
Year Round Cookies: Use regular M&Ms
Fall Cookies: Harvest Colored M&Ms
Valentine’s Day Cookies: Red, White and Pink M&Ms
St. Patrick’s Day Cookies: Green M&Ms
Easter Cookies: Pastel Colored M&Ms
Fourth of July Cookies: Red, White & Blue M&Ms
The Most Delicious Christmas M&M Cookies
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 20 cookies 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract)
- 3 cups unbleached, all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp vanilla instant pudding mix
- 1 1/2 cups Christmas M&Ms
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F. Prepare baking sheet with parchment paper. Gather a large bowl and a medium bowl for this recipe.
- *Use your large bowl* With a hand or stand mixer, cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together. Mix for about 1minute until the mixture is smooth. Beat eggs and vanilla into the mixture until just combined.
- In a medium bowl whisk flour, baking soda, salt and pudding mix until combined.
- Add the dry mixture a little at a time into the wet ingredients. Mix until the dough is just formed.
- Using a wooden spoon, mix holiday M&Ms into the dough. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Press a few M&Ms on top of the dough balls.
- Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow them to set on the pan for 3-5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack or plate to cool.
- Enjoy warm with a hot cup of cocoa, tea or coffee!
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
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