On the Second Day of Christmas
...My true love gave to me...COOKIES! And not just any cookies - M&Ms cookies. I don't know about y'all, but I have a very strong love for M&Ms, and I have been staring at the cookie recipe on our bag of them for a week (my mom uses them to encourage her young piano students 😆). They looked. So. Good. I couldn't help myself - I made them! (With permission, of course).
In fall/winter, my family almost never goes a day without cookies to put in lunches or to eat for snack, and today we unfortunately ran out of gingerbread men, so I knew that I had to make these M&M Cookies. Wow, I really need to stop snacking on M&Ms when the cookies are in the oven! (Also, our awesome friends gave us a dozen and a half eggs from their chickens, and they're all different sizes and they're brown, so it's nice to have something more unique than the monotony of the store bought white eggs.)
Ingredients
-2 Sticks/1 Cup butter
-2/3 Cup Brown Sugar
-2/3 Cup White Sugar
-1 Egg
-1 1/2 Tsp. Vanilla Extract
-2 Cups flour
-1 1/4 tsp. Baking Soda
-1 tsp. Salt
-1 3/4 Cup M&Ms!
Recipe
1) Preheat oven to 350 Degrees Fahrenheit.
2) In the bowl of a large mixer, cream together butter, sugar, and brown sugar until well blended. Add the egg and the vanilla extract and keep mixing.
3) In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the ingredients in the mixer and mix well.
4) Fold in the M&Ms and chill for an hour (I actually didn't chill them, I was too impatient)
5) Put little balls of the dough onto a lightly greased baking sheet about two inches apart.
6) Bake for 8-14 Minutes (depending on your oven or the crispiness you desire). ENJOY!
And then the morning snow that I just couldn't resist photographing 😉
Our icicles on the back porch are growing so long! I'm kind of scared to walk out there...
Also, I have a HUGE announcement that I just found out about: in the spring, I'm going to Spain and Portugal!!!!! My orchestra (HYSO) takes an international tour every other year. Last time they went to Austria, and my brother got to go along. I dreamed of going on tour but I didn't know if we could afford it this year. However, a super generous doner gave a few thousand dollars as scholarship money, and we applied for some and were given $2000 dollars. I cannot even express how thankful I am for this experience, and I will share every step of the way with y'all.
I hope you guys try this recipe! They are super good, but I think that a different recipe could be better, and so soon I might try different cookie recipes with the M&Ms.
