M&M Christmas Cookies (2024)

Festive cookies filled with red and green candy pieces. These M&M Christmas Cookies are easy-to-make holiday cookies.

Holiday cookies

I love a good chocolate chip cookie and these cookies are very similar to a good chocolate chip cookie but with candy-coated pieces instead!

I love making these during the holidays, and the colored M&Ms automatically make these so festive. Another M&M cookie recipe I have is a .

M&M candies have so many different colored pieces for different holidays, so simply switching up the colors makes these perfect for almost any holiday. I think these would also be delicious with a few of their flavored candies too. Some versions to try would be the mint-flavored ones, peanut butter or caramel!

When making a holiday cookie tray, these are great ones to include, because they are really easy cookies to make that is really loved by almost everyone!

These M&M Christmas Cookies are part of a new series I'm doing for the 10 Days of Christmas Cookies!

Key ingredients

• M&M Candies - Look for the red and green colored candy pieces.
• Butter - I use salted butter. Make certain you pull out your butter before you begin baking so the butter can come to room temperature and soften up a bit.
• Sugars - Both granulated and brown sugar are used

Step by step directions

• Cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy
• Add eggs and vanilla and mix well
• Add flour, baking soda and salt. Mix well
• Fold in M&M candies
• Scoop dough onto cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 375°F oven
• When cookies come out of the oven, let them cool for one minute and then remove from cookie sheet and place on a baking rack to continue cooling

Recipe tips

• I like to use parchment paper when baking cookies. If you don't use parchment, bake on a plain ungreased cookie sheet.
• Use a cookie scoop to get evenly sized cookies
• Allow cookies to fully cool before storing in an airtight container
• Cookies are best eaten within 3-4 days after baking
• Feel free to change up the color of the M&Ms for different seasons or occasions

Frequently asked questions

More delicious Christmas cookies

• Cranberry Swirl Cookies
• Bow Tie Cookies
• Pecan Snowball Cookies
• Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies

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