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M&M Chocolate Cookies

Teresa Ambra
M&M Chocolate Cookies are so drool-worthy! These delightful chocolate cookies are loaded with M&M chocolate candies making them doubly delicious! If you're a chocolate lover, you'll rave over these jewels. Great for holiday baking, Christmas Cookie Exchanges, baby showers or tailgating parties.
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 36
Calories 182 kcal

Equipment

  • 2 18x26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 mixing bowl
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 spatula

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened
  • 2 tsp. real vanilla extract NOT imitation vanilla flavoring
  • 3/4 tsp. baking soda
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 2/3 cup Cocoa
  • 3 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens cookies and cakes
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 cups M&M chocolate candies divided use

Instructions
 

  • Measure out about ½ cup M&M candies.
  • Set aside.
  • Cream butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer.
  • Stir in UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour and remaining M&M candies until dough is thoroughly mixed.
  • Roll dough into balls and place on cookie sheets that have been sprayed with cooking spray.
  • Place about 4 M&Ms candies into the top of each cookie.
  • Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until cookies test done.
  • Rotate cookie sheets on racks every six minutes while baking.
  • Cool in cookie sheets for a few minutes before removing to wire racks.

Notes

NOTE: Be sure you do NOT use a dark pan to make these cookies or the reflection causes them to scorch on the bottoms, yet not be baked thoroughly.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 182kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 2gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.3gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 26mgSodium: 68mgPotassium: 41mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16gVitamin A: 199IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 20mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chocolate, chocolate chip cookie, chocolate dessert, cookie, dessert, M&Ms
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