Chocolate Chip M&M Cookies
A simple chocolate chip M&M cookie recipe that can easily be themed to any holiday by using holiday colored M&Ms.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Vegetable Shortening
- 1½ Cup Granulated White Sugar
- 1½ Cup Brown Sugar
- 4 Eggs
- 3 tsp Vanilla
- 1 tsp Hot Water
- 4½ Cup Flour
- 2 tsp Salt
- 2½ tsp Baking Soda
- 2 Cups Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1 Cup M&Ms Milk Chocolate
Instructions
- Begin with gathering all of your ingredients.
- Start with combining your vegetable shortening, granulated white sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla and hot water together to make a cream base for your dough. Mix together well.
- Slowly add in the dry ingredients including the flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix well.
- Add in the chocolate chips. Then add in the M&Ms if you want them mixed in the dough.
- Place the dough in the refrigerator for at least one hour to cool.
- Preheat your oven to 350°.
- Once the dough has cooled, use a cookie scoop to make evenly sized dough balls and place them on a cookie sheet approx 2" apart.
- Bake your cookie dough balls for 10-12 minutes or until your chocolate chip M&M cookies are golden brown.
- Remove your cookies from the oven and let them cool on the cookie sheet for approx 5 minutes. Then transfer them to a cooling rack.
- Once your cookies are cooled completely store them in an air tight container.
Notes
Calories are calculated by a third party website and are based on ingredients used.