Homemade M&M Cookies are a favorite for any age with a glass of cold milk. Brown sugar gives them a satisfying chewiness, and the M&M’s candy coating provides a pleasant crunch.
Cookies baked from scratch always taste so much better than store-bought and these cookies are such a colorful, fun change of pace from the usual chocolate chip or sugar cookies. You’ll love how easy these are to make and freeze.
How to Make M&M Cookies
These M&M cookies are not thick, they’re a little bit of a thinner cookie but super soft, chewy and yummy. Perfection in our opinion!
This is great recipe introduce kids to baking.
- Cream softened butter with white and brown sugar first (per recipe below). Mix the egg into the sugar mixture.
- Combine dry ingredients into the butter and sugar mixture a little at a time.
- Bake until lightly browned.
The dough will keep in the fridge for 3-4 days, or in the freezer for 3 months. Form into a 2-3-inch log and tightly wrap in two or three layers of plastic, or in one layer inside a freezer bag. Whenever you want, warm from the oven cookies, just slice into ½-inch discs and bake until browned and fragrant.
Can You Freeze M&M Cookies?
This recipe is perfect for make-ahead convenience. Consider doubling the recipe so you’ll have a stash of these put away for unexpected guests or school parties that pop up suddenly. These fabulous cookies will keep for 3 – 4 months in the freezer packed in bags or containers. They thaw in 1 – 2 minutes.
Other Delicious Add-Ins
My M&M cookies are versatile and accommodating to many yummy additions and substitutions Here are some ideas to spark your creativity:
- Chocolate: Reese’s Pieces, chocolate chips
- Chips: Peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips
- Nuts: Chopped walnuts, pecans or almonds
Whether you stick to the original recipe or play around with ingredients, M&M cookies are a reliable, ever-popular treat.
Delicious Cookie Recipes
- Best Ever Monster Cookies – so many delicious variations!
- Christmas M&M Cookies – loaded with red & green!
- Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies – perfect classic cookie
- Peanut Butter Blossoms – with a chocolate kiss center
- Funfetti Cookies – soft, chewy, bakery-style sugar cookies!
Easy M&M Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup M&Ms
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Cream butter, brown sugar, vanilla, and white sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and mix well.
- Combine dry ingredients in a bowl and add to the butter mixture a bit at a time, mixing after each addition.
- Fold in M&Ms and drop by heaping tablespoons onto an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake 8-10 minutes.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Cookies, Dessert
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Recipe Adapted Terpsma, Taryn. “Smartie Cookies”. Recipe. Cooking with Class. Beaumont, AB, 2011. 83. Print.
This was too much flour! They tasted great but did not spread out at all.
Hi Alex, thanks for trying our recipe. I am glad you enjoyed it! To make sure you aren’t using too much flour check out our measuring flour guide.
This is the exact recipe my mother passed down to me! She used 11/2 cups of M&Ms though, the half cup was to decorate the top of the cookies. Thank you for reminding me of these delicious cookies!
Hi Shellie, that’s so wonderful that this recipe is the same as the one passed down from your mother! I love how she used the extra half cup of M&Ms for decorating—what a fun and colorful touch. Thank you for sharing, and I’m so glad this brought back those delicious memories for you!
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Did you mean baking powder rather than baking soda? My cookies completely flattened out and all of the butter oozed out.
I use baking soda in this recipe. These are fairly thin cookies, but I’m sorry to hear yours completely flattened out.
Simple to make and so yummy!!!!
Yumm! These are soft in the middle and delicious. Surprisingly not as sweet as I thought they would be, which I personally like. Cooked 10 minutes.
I made this for the first time day for my Mom who loves M&M’s and who is just recovering from surgery. She loved them and so did I. They turned out nice and chewy. The recipe was easy to follow.
I am so glad you and your mom loved this recipe Tamara!
I am not eating eggs so What is the best egg substitute for M&M cookies?
I’ve only tried this recipe as written so I can’t say for sure.
Baking time will vary depending on how big you make the cookies, keep in mind that the butter and the M&M’s will both flatten the cookies out a bit. Easy enough to make with kids or grandkids (-:
Needed a quick and easy cookie recipe and this was perfect! SWP Employee
So glad you loved them Samantha!
Yum! Slightly crispy near the edges and soft in the middle. Thank you!
I followed the recipe exactly and used the cookies scoop and parchment paper. I baked them in a 375° oven for 12 minutes and they turned out perfectly. The only thing I would add is it called for one cup of M&M’s and I think I should have added an extra quarter cup of M&Ms. Thanks for the recipe!
The cookies looked great! The consistency of the dough was perfect. However, these did not seem sugary enough. The cookie was pretty bland and I am someone who does not like super sugary desserts. Also, I needed to bake these about 13 minutes before they were done.
Delicious! Perfectly soft and chewy. I add a little variety by splitting the dough in half and adding M&M’s to one half and mini chocolate chips to the other. This is our new favorite cookie recipe!