Skip the chocolate chips and make this colorful m&m cookie recipe for your next family get together. Change the color of m&m’s to match any occasion.
Cookies are one of my family’s favorite treats. The kids especially love cookies if they get to help make the cookies. So when I decided to make this M&M Cookie recipe, I knew I’d have lots of little hands to help me.
What I like about this m&m cookie recipe is that you can change up the color of the m&ms for any occasion. Since Easter is just around the corner, we used the pastel Easter bag of m&ms for these cookies. Luckily most of the m&ms made it to the cookies and not in my kids tummies. 🙂
M&M Cookie Recipe
M&M Cookie Recipe

A sweet and chewy cookie that can be switched up for any occasion
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1 cup m&m candies
Instructions
- In a big bowl with mixing paddle, cream together butter, shortening and sugars.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- Add dry ingredients and mix until all combined.
- Add m&ms and mix on low or hand mix until all combined.
- Scoop onto cookie sheets and add more m&ms if desired.
- Bake 375 degrees for 9-11 minutes.
You can see those cute hands being so helpful during and of course after the cookies are made. 🙂
Does your family have a favorite treat? If you like cookies like my family, try some of these other recipes.
Happy Baking!
Liz
Comments & Reviews
These cookies look fabulous. I love M&M and my son loves cookies and M&Ms.
Are you still hosting a link party or am I just not looking in the right place?
Ok, now I just watched your video, love the little helping, hands, makes me miss my little ones that are all grown up.
Let me know if the link party is moved or you are just not hosting. I am on the mailing list so I will get all your new posts.
Susan at Craftingafamily.com
Hi Susan! We actually stopped hosting the link party. We had too many other projects coming up this year and needed to move on. Thank you for linking up with us and coming back to see what we’ve been up to. Have a good week.