Chocolate Chip M&M’s Cookies — These bakery-style M&M’s cookies are soft, chewy, buttery, and LOADED with M&M’s and chocolate chips. No one can resist these cookies!
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These big, bakery-style cookies are very soft, slightly chewy, buttery, and loaded with M&M’S and chocolate chips.
These homemade cookies are sure to disappear very quickly because I don’t know anyone who can resist soft, warm, homemade M&M’S cookies.
If you’re looking for a new favorite M&M’S cookie recipe, you’re going to love this one!
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Recipe Ingredients
For this easy M&M’s chocolate chip cookies recipe, you’ll need:
- Unsalted butter
- Light brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour
- Instant vanilla pudding mix
- Baking soda
- Salt
- M&M’s (any variety)
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Chocolate Chip M&M’s Cookies
Making chocolate chip cookies with M&M’s is simple and straightforward. Here are the basic steps:
- Combine the butter, sugars, egg, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl and cream until light in color and well combined (this will take a good 4 minutes).
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl, then mix in the flour, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt.
- Fold in the M&M’s and chocolate chips, then scoop the cookie dough into balls and flatten slightly with your hands.
- Chill the cookie dough for at least 3 hours before baking.
- Bake the M&M’s cookies for exactly how long I’ve said to (if yours are the same size as mine). Even if the centers of the cookies look pale and glossy, you should still take them out of the oven because the residual heat in the cookies will finish baking the insides.
Tip for Making Chewy Cookies
When creaming together the butter and sugars, it’s important that you give the mixture plenty of time to whip up. At this stage, you’re whipping air into the mixture, which is partly what makes these cookies so soft and chewy.
Recipe FAQs
I used Dark Chocolate M&M’S because I’m a dark chocolate girl, but anything from Pretzel to Peanut Butter M&M’S would be fun twists.
This chocolate chip and M&M’s cookies recipe calls for a small amount of instant pudding mix because it adds a depth of flavor you just can’t get without it, and it helps the cookies stay soft for days. But if you don’t have access to or don’t want to use pudding mix, add 2 teaspoons of cornstarch instead.
Note that you add the pudding mix as a DRY ingredient. You should NOT make the pudding according to the package instructions.
You MUST chill the cookie dough. If you skip this crucial step, your cookies will come out flat and will spread a lot in the oven.
Absolutely! I highly recommend doubling this recipe and freezing half the cookie dough for later. To freeze cookie dough, first scoop the dough into balls and then seal inside a freezer bag. When you’re ready to make the cookies, bake them directly from frozen (note that you may have to add a minute or two to the bake time).
Storage Instructions
Baked cookies: Store airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Raw cookie dough: Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months. Cookie dough can be baked from frozen, no need to thaw first.
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Chocolate Chip M&M’S Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, softened (1 stick)
- ½ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup instant vanilla pudding mix, not cook-and-serve, not sugar-free
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ¾ cup M&M’S, plus more for adding to dough mounds (I used Dark Chocolate M&M’S, other varieties may be substituted)
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus more for adding to dough mounds
Instructions
- To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or large mixing bowl and electric mixer) combine the butter, sugars, egg, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until creamed and well combined, about 4 minutes.
- Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the flour, pudding mix (add it as a dry ingredient, do not actually make pudding; cook-and-serve and sugar-free are not recommended in this recipe), baking soda, salt, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
- Add the M&M’S, chocolate chips, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds.
- Using a large cookie scoop, 1/4-cup measure, or your hands, form approximately 11 equal-sized mounds of dough, roll into balls, and flatten slightly.*
- Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading.
- Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray. Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 6 cookies per sheet) and bake for about 12 to 13 minutes (if your cookies are smaller than mine, reduce baking time) or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don’t overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
- Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don’t use a rack.
- Cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 6 months. Alternatively, unbaked cookie dough can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months, so consider baking only as many cookies as desired and save the remaining dough to be baked in the future when desired.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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These used to be my go to & turned out perfectly soft and fluffy every time but the last two times I’ve made them I weighed the ingredients instead of measuring like I used to and they have been super flat. That’s the only thing I’ve changed so just an FYI that weighing may not be the way to go on these. These are beautiful & delicious when they turn out correctly!
Hi Amy if you had success measuring in the past, rather than weighing, I would simply go back to that.
I bake by using measuring cups and teaspoons, rather than by weight, and I don’t provide weights in my recipes since I haven’t tested them that way and would just be guessing what weight value to use. So in your case I would just go back to doing what you know works which is with measuring cups.
These are amazing and my family’s favorite—and so pretty! Thank you for another amazing recipe!!!
Thanks for the 5 star review, Lynn, and I am glad these are your family’s favorite and they turn out amazing for you!
I have to be gluten free so I made this recipe with GF flour. The M&M cookies turned out PERFECTLY! This is by far the BEST M&M cookie recipe I ever tried. Going forward it will be the only one I use!
I have to be gluten free so I made this recipe with GF flour. The M&M cookies turned out PERFECTLY! This is by far the BEST M&M cookie recipe I ever tried. Going forward it will be the only one I use!
Thanks for the 5 star review and I am glad that these worked out well with GF flour and that they turned out perfectly and that this will be your go-to recipe from now on!
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When recipes say soft and chewy, the bar is high…this one delivers! Spooning flour versus dipping measuring cup into the flour made a huge difference, but these are legit chewy and flavorful. I made them in a large cookie scoop and baked for 8 minutes, allowing them to cool on the pan versus a cooling rack, per the instructions. Excellent!!!
Why does the recipe only call for 1/4 C. of vanilla pudding versus a whole pkg?
Because that’s what I found works best.
Love this recipe and the Quadruple Chocolate version. Have made both many, many times to rave reviews. Curious why the chocolate has two eggs and the vanilla has one?
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you love the recipes!
One of those baking things that I figured out over trial and error and that each recipe tastes better with the respective amount of eggs called for.
This m&m cookie recipe was a hit at my church! Already planning to make a few dozen for my pastors wife’s birthday celebration next week! :)
-Much love-
Thanks for the five star review and glad these were a hit and that you’re going to make more!
I made this and it was sooooo good and everyone loved them. Thanks for the recipe! 😀
I’m glad to hear these were a big hit and loved by all!
I saved this recipe from a few years ago and it always freezes so well! I love making a batch and freezing the dough in individual portions for when I want a nice, warm cookie fresh from the oven. Need to make some again this weekend.
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad that you can enjoy freshly baked cookies in individual portions from your freezer stash when a craving strikes!
I make these cookies for EVERY function and they’re always a hit!! I change it up just a tad and do 1/2 cup m&ms, 1/2 cup dark choc chips and 1/4 cup butterscotch chips! So good!
Thanks for the five star review and I’m glad that these are always a hit whenever you make them!
How many cookies does this recipe yield?
It says at the top of the recipe card.
So sorry! It was really small. Thank you!!!
No worries, enjoy the cookies!
My family loves M&M cookies, thanks for the delicious recipe!
Thanks for trying it and glad they turned out delicious for you!
My 7 yr. old granddaughter and I enjoyed making these together. They were fabulous! Everyone in the family loved them and want us to make them again right away as they disappeared very quickly!
Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you were able to bake with your granddaughter!
Can I freeze these? I am afraid they will bleed upon unfreezing?
I am fearful of bleeding too although I have done it and it’s not terrible. But better yet, I would freeze the unbaked mounds of dough and then just bake them off when you’re ready for them.