M&M Cookies

So I spent most of the day baking and still have some to do. Not that I don't bake like crazy for my office to begin with, but last year during Christmas, I made probably close to 400-plus cookies for everyone. I will be doing four different types of cookie again this year: M&M cookies, raspberry cheesecake cookies, sugar cookies and chocolate thumbprint cookies.

I decided against doing chocolate chip cookies this year, which used to be my staple cookie, but I'll be baking more tomorrow and will end up baking some chocolate chunk cookies because my uncle is up from Delaware and my mom suggested I bake him some stuff to take home. He asked for chocolate chip so chocolate chip he shall get.

Earlier in the week, my mom bought me some red and green mini M&Ms and I decided to make sugar cookies with them to add to my office Christmas cookies. My dad and uncle said they turned out delicious since I let them have one after lunch.

 

M&M Cookies

Ingredients:



1 stick butter

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 egg

3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

red and green mini M&Ms

 

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

 

Melt the butter in a large mixing bowl for two 20-second increments. Stir in sugar. Once it is slightly cooled [around three minutes], beat in the egg and vanilla.

 

In a separate bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Stir this into the butter and sugar mixture. Add the M&Ms and mix together well.

 

Roll the dough into quarter-size balls. Place the cookie balls on a baking sheet, two to three inches apart. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.