Old-Fashioned M&M Cookies
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Your perfect cookie for dunkin’! These Old Fashioned M&M Cookies are hard to resist. Get some milk and start dunkin’ ASAP!
This old-fashioned M&M Cookies recipe is the one I remember Mama making the most growing up. Unlike many of today’s cookies, these have a good crunch to them. That, along with a pure flavor brought about by the vanilla makes them absolutely perfect for dunking in milk. I repeat: Absolutely perfect. Divine. Sublime. Wonderful. I really, really, really, want you to make these and have them with a glass of milk — tonight!
An Old-Fashioned Recipe
Mama used to always make this recipe and put the little balls of dough on baking sheets before transferring them to the table where the three of us sat at the ready. She’d give each of us a little bowl of M&M’s and we had one rule: We could put three M&M’s on each cookie — no more. I didn’t understand why Mama had that rule until I made these with son for the first time. There was one cookie that kid had put fifteen M&M’s on! ~laughs~
So now I revert to Mama’s wisdom. I put some M&M’s in the batter and then each cookie is adorned with exactly three M&M’s on top!
Keep reading to see how to make these little beauties as well as how I get my all red M&M’s for half price!
Ingredients for this Old-Fashioned M&M Cookies Recipe are:
- Solid Vegetable Shortening (I like to use Coconut Oil but you can use whatever you like)
- Brown Sugar (dark or light, whatever you have on hand)
- M&M’s
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Self Rising Flour (See FAQ on how to make your own)
- Vanilla
*Tip for Getting Red M&M’s on the Cheap*
I buy Christmas M&M’s for half price right after the holidays. Keep that in mind for next year if need be! It’s great to already have them on hand whenever the urge to make these old-fashioned m&m cookies strikes!
*I always store candies and such that I plan on baking with in mason jars rather than the original bags. Mason jars are reusable and keep them fresh better than the bags. Critters, if determined, can easily get into those bags, too. So glass jars is a safe way to keep everything stored until you need it!
Then I sort them by color.
Red ones are perfect for Valentines Day
and the green ones are great for the very next holiday: St. Patrick’s Day!
I put the green ones back in the jar and my kids will be ready to make our “lucky” cookies and treats next month.
Now let’s get to this recipe!
How To Make this Old-Fashioned M&M Cookies Recipe Step-by-Step
Place your shortening in a mixing bowl and add sugars.
I always just use whatever brown sugar I have on hand whenever a recipe calls for brown sugar of any kind.
I prefer dark because of the richer flavor but either one works.
Add eggs and vanilla.
Mix all that up until creamy and blended, scraping down the sides of the bowl if you need to.
Mama’s recipe says to add your flour gradually.
~arches a brow and smirks~
Raise your hand if you think I’m gonna do that…
Yeah, right. Dump all of your flour in at once. Walk on the wild-side with me.
Mix her up and add those M&M’s
I add about half because you want to save some to put on the top.
It will look something like this.
Spray your baking sheet with cooking spray. Shape the dough into little balls about one inch in size.
Add a couple more M&M’s on top
Bake for ten to twelve minutes or so…
When they are done baking they’ll look like this. And they are ready for Dunkin’!
Ingredients
- 1 cup solid Vegetable Shortening I use coconut oil but you can use your favorite
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tsp teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/2 cups self rising flour*
- 1 1/2 cups M&M's
Instructions
- Combine shortening, sugars, eggs, and vanilla and mix thoroughly. Gradually add in flour and mix well (or just dump it in all at once like I do). Stir in 1/2 cup M&M's, reserving rest to decorate the tops with.Form dough into one inch balls and place on greased cookie sheet. Decorate tops with additional M&M's (this is GREAT for kids to help with!) and bake at 375 for ten to twelve minutes or until golden brown. Makes about five dozen.
Nutrition
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Thanks Christy!!! They will be at Bryan Elementary Mr. Mahaffey’s fourth grade class party friday in Kimberly, AL!!!
I ran to the store and picked up some M’s as soon as I saw the post on FB! They are so yummy my kids love them. I had to make half the batch minus the M’s as I have a child that must have been dropped as a baby and hates chocolate! We just used sprinkles on hers. My baby boy however ate off the M’s and then enjoyed the cookie!
Thank You for such an easy cookie!
Hi Christy – These are very similar to the chocolate chips cookie recipe that my mother passed on to me – I always cut down the flour and add oatmeal instead – it makes them more chewy. I made them just this last weekend for school snacks, but didn’t have any oatmeal, so made them just with flour – ew!…crunchy cookies…LOL now no one wants to eat them! I still have most of the batter sitting in the fridge…
Funnily enough, the M&M cookies didn’t get eaten when I made them either! Guess we’re just a choc chip cookie family!
He really is a cute boy! And your little girl looks exactly like her mommy! Y’all are all cute!
(and after a bout with pantry moths that seemed to never end, I put everything into jars. Keeps the food safe from critters, like you said, plus I like the way it looks – somewhat organized, and a little bit country)
What size Mason jars do you use for storage? My sister uses them and swears by them. Just seeing the organized spot makes me ready for spring cleaning and organizing. AND I needed a cookie for daughters birhday party. So thanks for sharing so much of yourself.
Hey! I use the wide mouth quart jars for storage. They’re easy to fill and I figure if I end up with an empty container later there are at least a hundred uses I can have for it! Also helps that they are dishwasher safe and you can purchase new lid inserts if you ever need to. I often can things in quart jars and then run it through the dishwasher when I use up the contents before recycling it into storage.
I also store rice, dried beans, and oats in jars as well. I learned the hard way that storing dried beans in the bag they came in is a really bad idea. 🙂
Thank YOU so much for reading and commenting, Nici!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
I just want you to know how your funny comments inserted within your recipes make my day! I may not have as much time as I would like to bake or cook the recipes, but I so enjoy your website. Thank you for blessing my day!
Hey Janie!!
Thank you so much! You know somedays I sit and write this stuff and think “bless their hearts for putting up with me”. hehe
This comment really made *my* day. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to chat with me!!
Thank YOU for blessing me in return!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
Hey! I think I know that Michael…*hee*…I have a HUGE bag of Christmas M&Ms right now in my pantry….*sigh, not sure how many of them will survive to be put in cookies but now they have a purpose in life. Diet? What diet?
hehe
The trick is to make them, have one or two, and SEND ‘EM ELSEWHERE! lol Thats what I do! If I ate all of this sweet stuff I’d never be able to fit through the door. They also freeze well if you’d like to put some back for the grandkids! Me? I just love to take food to folks.
Gratefully,
Christy