Peanut Butter M&M Cookies

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These Peanut Butter M&M Cookies are our new favourite cookies! What could be better than M&M cookies that are peanut butter? The flavours are a match made in heaven! Make them into Christmas cookies as well by using Christmas M&M’s!

M&M’s Plus Peanut Butter = Cookie Win!

This summer we were so darn busy camping every weekend that I barely baked a cookie. Oh, fine, I know I baked up my skillet cookies and desserts while camping, but it’s been a long time since I’ve fired up the KitchenAid stand mixer and really delved into a batch of cooking baking. Muffins? Ha! I don’t think I made a single batch this summer!

So back to school means back to the kitchen for me, back to a quasi-schedule (I’m really trying to get back into schedule and it’s not working, more on that another time) and back to baking school and after-school treats for the kids. While these cookies won’t make it into the kids lunches (they have peanut butter in them) they most certainly have made it into the rotation of after school treats.

I have a thing for M&M’s and baking with them. They just come in so many sizes and flavors, each delicious in their own right..and the colors! How can you lose with those bright-colored beauties?

As I am sure you are all well aware I have a peanut butter addiction, especially when it comes to sweet treats. This cookie just makes sense to me, by pairing my favorite flavor in M&M’s with a great cookie base.

The end result is a thick cookie, like my Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies, with little peanut butter delights baked into them.

Yum.

If you are looking for more peanut butter cookies ideas, I pulled a couple from the Life Made Delicious website.

New Fashioned peanut butter cookies: Peanut butter cookies using a cakemix. I am seriously intrigued!

Or these Peanut Butter-Pecan Chocolate Chip Granola Cookies recipe? It uses Bisquick! Get outta town!

How is your back to school going? It’s been three weeks and I keep hoping I’m going to get back into it more…and I swear I just keep forgetting more and more things every week!

Love,

Karlynn

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Peanut Butter M&M Cookies

Thick and chewy cookies loaded with Peanut Butter M&M's.

5 from 2 votes

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Prep Time

5 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Total Time

12 minutes

Course

Dessert

Cuisine

cookies

Servings

24

Calories

220

Author

Karlynn Johnston

Ingredients

 

• ▢ 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• ▢ 1 teaspoon salt if using unsalted butter
• ▢ 1 cup packed brown sugar
• ▢ 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• ▢ 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• ▢ 2 eggs
• ▢ 2 cups Peanut Butter M & M's

Instructions

 

• Kick the tires and light the fires to 350 degrees. 
• Cream together your butter and sugar until it's light and fluffy. 
• Add in the eggs and vanilla, mixing thoroughly. 
• Beat in the flour, baking soda and salt. When that is done, fold in the two cups of M&M's by hand, and prepare to put them on some parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonful onto the baking sheets.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes, until golden brown and slightly underdone. 
• Cool on the sheets completely.

Nutrition Information

Serving: 24g, Calories: 220kcal, Carbohydrates: 34g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 8g, Saturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 26mg, Sodium: 169mg, Potassium: 29mg, Sugar: 23g, Vitamin A: 175IU, Vitamin C: 0.1mg, Calcium: 33mg, Iron: 0.9mg

All calories and info are based on a third party calculator and are only an estimate. Actual nutritional info will vary with brands used, your measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

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