Holiday M&Ms Chocolate Chip Cookies
Using my go to chocolate chip recipe and adding in M&Ms candy for these holiday cookies. They are chewy and loaded with chocolate chips and M&Ms a perfect holiday cookie treat.
Ingredients
- 1 cup of unsalted melted butter
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- ½ cup of granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs at room temp.
- 2 tsp of vanilla extract
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1 tsp of baking soda
- 2½ cups of All Purpose flour
- 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips plus more to add on top before/after baking (optional)
- 1 cup M&Ms chocolate candy plus more to add on top before/after baking (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F and line to baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. In a bowl mix flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
- In your mixing bowl mix together butter and both sugars on medium speed for a few minutes making sure to stop and scrape down the sides in between.
- Add both eggs and vanilla and mix for another 2-3 mins.
- With the mixer on low slowly add in you dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Then add in chocolate chips and M&M"s and mix for another 10 secs making sure not to over mix.
- With a large (3 oz.) scoop, scoop dough on to parchment lined cookie sheets and here you can add more chocolate chips and M&Ms on top.
- Bake for 10-12 mins until golden brown edges. For gooey cookie take them out earlier at about 9 mins, for crispier cookies leave them in longer. They do continue to bake while they cool so you don't want to over bake. Once you take them out let them cool on sheet for 3 mins before transferring to a cooling rack.
Notes
Always mix your butter and sugars for at least 5 mins if you can it makes a big difference in cookie texture.
But don't over mix once you add dry ingredients you'll get tough cookies. Also level your flour don't compact it, it can dry out your cookies.
You can place your dough in the fridge for 10-20 mins before baking and even overnight it will just take a few minutes longer to bake.
Always best to eat these the day they are made but they can be stored in air tight container in fridge up to a week or you can freeze them for up to a month.