Best M&M Cookie Recipe - I Heart Naptime (2025)

The BEST M&M Cookies that are soft and chewy with crispy edges and packed full of chocolate chips and M&Ms. This recipe is family favorite and so easy to make!

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Soft & Chewy M&M Cookies

These chocolate chip M&M cookies are one of the best classic cookies out there!

• Easy. This recipe comes together in 30 minutes in one bowl.
• Full of chocolate. These cookies are filled with chocolate chips & M&M’s adding the perfect balance to this chewy cookie.
• Versatile. Make miniature sized cookies or this ! Make with red and green candies or try your favorite M&M variety.

Ingredients

Scroll down for the printable M&M cookie recipe and video tutorial.

• Unsalted butter: I prefer to use softened unsalted butter to control amount of salt.
• Baking staples:Butter, sugar, flour, baking soda, salt and eggs.
• Light brown sugar: I love mixing brown sugar into my cookies for the perfect flavor.
• Vanilla: I like to use a pure vanilla extract to bring out the flavor.
• Chocolate chips: Semi-sweet chocolate chips are my favorite for this recipe. Use mini chocolate chips if you like more in each bite!
• M&M’s: I prefer to use the regular M&M candies, unless there is a holiday coming up.

Recipe Variations

• Holiday M&M cookies: Make 4th of July cookies with red white and blue M&M’s or use pink and red for and .
• Gift. Gift this at the holidays.
• Bars: Make festive .
• Loaded: Add peanut butter and oats for monster cookies.

How To Make M&M Cookies

Using a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugars for 1 minute in a large bowl using the paddle attachment. Add in eggs and vanilla and mix.

Next add flour, baking soda and salt and whisk until combined. Fold in both chocolate chips and M&M’s to the flour mixture. Refrigerate dough for 15-30 minutes. By chilling the dough it helps them to not fall flat.

Scoop cookie dough with large cookie scoop onto two baking sheets lined with baking mats or parchment paper, about 2 inches apart. Place extra M&M’s on top.

Bake M&M cookies at 375°F for 8-10 minutes, until tops are barely golden. Let set on pan for 2 minutes, then move to cooling wire racks.

Recipe Success Tips

After countless times making these, here are the tips I have found helpful to make the best M&M cookies.

• Chill the dough in the refrigerator. The cookie dough is soft! To help the cookies stay thick and chewy and not spread, chill the dough for 15 minutes or best overnight.
• Use a large cookie scoop. This ensures the M&M cookies are all equal size.
• Add extra M&M’s on top. Once the dough balls have been formed, press a few extra M&M’s on the top before baking. Don’t press too hard, you do not want to flatten the cookie.
• Do not over bake: For a soft and chewy cookie remove just prior to being done. They will finish baking on the cookie sheet and you will have chewy centers with crisp edges

Thicker or Thinner Cookies

One thing I have learned over the years is that everyone has a personal preference when it comes to how they like their cookie!

• For thin cookies: Do not chill the dough and use a medium cookie scoop which is about 1 1/2 Tablespoons.
• For thicker cookies: Use a large 3 Tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop dough into balls and then chill for up to 24 hours. This leads to less spread and a cookie with a center that is thick and chewy. You can also add in 2 teaspoons cornstarch for a thicker dough.

Shaping Techniques for Round Cookies

If you have ever wondered how to achieve a perfectly round cookie, it’s easy to do! Both of these methods must be done immediately after removing the cookies from the oven.

• Swirl a glass around cookie. Immediately after removing the cookie from the oven, place a glass that is slightly larger than the cookie (or use a bowl, cookie cutter, mason jar lid) around the edges of the cookie. Moving quickly, circle the glass around the warm cookie to push the edges of the cookie upwards.
• Use the back of a spoon. Alternately, instead of using a glass, take the rounded part of the back of a spoon and move quickly around the edges of the cookie pushing it inward.

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