M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Whenever I need to remember something from one of my favorite cookie recipes, I usually just look it up on my blog, since I like to post my favorites here. 

 So where the heck is the most awesome M&M cookie recipe ever?

I thought I had posted it last year, but nope. So it's here now.

[Sorry for anyone who asked me for the recipe and I referred you to the non-existent one here on the blog]

Adeline and I decided Christmas M&M cookies would be perfect for a friend in need, and even more perfect for her since she'll pretty much do anything for M&Ms.

Seriously, I think she'd be happy if she just got a pack of them for Christmas. 

Hey there's an idea.

So Adeline pulled out her reading recipe book and repeated the only two ingredients:

-"shudah aaaaaaaaaaaand lots of M&Ms"

and luckily I found the original recipe which went a little more like this:

You'll need:

4 1/2 cups flour

2tsp baking soda

2 cups of softened butter

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

1/2 cup of white sugar

2 (3.4ounce) packs of vanilla pudding mix -BINGO!

4 eggs

1TBS vanilla extract

1 big pack of M&Ms and 1 pack of chocolate chips.

-Preheat the oven @ 350 degrees

-Stir together the flour and baking soda in one bowl and set aside. 

-In another large bowl cream butter and both sugars

-Beat in pudding mixes.

-Stir in eggs and vanilla

-Blend in flour mixture

-Stir in M&Ms and chocolate chips

-Drop cookies by the spoonful onto cookie sheet

-Bake for 10 minutes with edges golden brown

and BAM

mad awesome M&M cookies that everyone will LOVE...

unless they don't like M&Ms.... or cookies... 

anyway  

These cookies are the perfect balance of chewy, soft, and melty on the inside and crisp on the outside.

The recipe made 5 dozen, so I was able to freeze some to give closer to Christmas. 

Hello, brilliance

Yummmmay!

[I could so be a food photographer, no blinking, no bribing to be still, and no urgency to capture a moment that is gone in a second. Just still, chill..... food....nerdbomb.]

I had so much fun baking with Addie. It was so sweet and heart warming how much she enjoyed spending time with me and helping to do something for others. She was so excited to deliver them too, and of course she was equally excited to taste the fruits cookies of her labor.hurhur.

oh and Boyboy was just happy to have gotten this awesomely sweet and slightly colorful cracker looking thing. He may or may not have had 3. 

[What? I'm just an awesome Mommy....?]

Such sweet little blessings !

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Here's some quick links to some of my other favorite cookie recipes:

Chocolate sugar cookies

Peanut butter cookies

Chocolate cherry cookies

Gluten free peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
Oatmeal crasin cookies

 Do send me any of your favorites. Right now I'm looking for the perfect sugar cookie recipe, I've tried like a dozen and can't come up with exactly what I'm looking for. Oh yea I need a good gingerbread one too. :)

Cookie Time!

December=ultimate baking month. 

Cookies are kinda my thing. 

I have about ten [yeah, 1-0] go-to recipes each year, and this one's super yummy!

So uh, want my favorite chocolate sugar cookie recipe?

Duh. You do! 

You'll need:

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temp

1 1/2 cups sugar

1/2 cup melted and cooled vegetable shortening

1 large egg

1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Preheat your oven to 375.

The size of your cookies depend on how long you bake them. I make smaller cookies, so mine only need to bake about 6-8 minutes. Plus I like a crunchy outer cookie and a gooey inside. To get that I normally squish them with my spatula straight out of the oven, and then cool them for 1-2 minutes on the pan, and then let them finish cooling on a cookie rack. 

You can vary your cooking times or sizes depending on how you like your cookies! 

This batch made 4 dozen small chocolate sugar cookies. If you're like me, and give away cookie boxes around Christmas then this would be prime freezing time. Keep 2 dozen for your family to snack on, and freeze 2 dozen for cookie assortment boxes.

You can either freeze your cookie dough, and make fresh cookies closer to the date you want them. OR they freeze wonderfully wrapped tightly in freezer paper and then zip lock bags or freezer safe containers. 

 They taste just the same, just defrost them and pop into a heated oven for a minute or so and you'd never know the difference. 

It saves a lot of back ache and clean up time in the kitchen if you normally make 100 batches of difference recipes in one day.

Oh yea, and since I'm the boss, I do give you permission to eat these for dinner-with a glass of milk, of course... only if your the momma though.

... don't judge me!  ;)