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Rainbow M&M cookies

5 from 1 vote
M&M cookies are a delicious and colourful cookie kids will love. The rainbow cookies are soft and crispy like all good cookies should be, and full of vibrant colour from M&Ms.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 12
Course: Afternoon tea, Snack
Cuisine: American, British
Calories: 240
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 100 g (½ cup) butter softened
  • 100 g (½ cup) soft brown sugar
  • 50 g (¼ cup) caster sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 200 g (1 ¼ cups) self raising flour
  • 100 g (½ cup) chocolate chips
  • 100 g (½ cups) M&Ms

Equipment

  • Digital scales
  • Freestanding mixer
  • Mixing bowl
  • Wooden spoons
  • Measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • baking tray
  • Wire rack

Method
 

  1. Pre heat your oven to 180C / 170C Fan / 350F and line 2 -3 baking trays with baking or parchment paper.
Cream the butter and sugars together
  1. Measure out the butter and both of the sugars out then and add them to a large mixing bowl or a free-standing mixer if you have one.
  2. Using a handheld whisk, the k-paddle of your free-standing mixer or even wooden spoons cream the butter and sugars together until the mixture is nice and light and fluffy.
Add the egg and vanilla
  1. Crack the egg into a small bowl before adding it to your mixing bowl.
    Measure the vanilla extract and pour it into your bowl then mix everything together.
Mix in the flour
  1. Measure the flour out and add it to your mixing bowl along. Give everything one more mix until it all comes together in a nice stiff ball of cookie dough.
Add the chocolate chips and M&Ms
  1. Finally, pour the chocolate chips and around ¾ of the M&Ms into your mixing bowl. Using a wooden spoon or spatula this time, stir them in so they are well dispersed.
Make the M&M cookies
  1. Spoon out 12 dollops of cookie dough onto your prepared baking trays. Try to make sure the M&Ms are evenly distributed among the cookies. Leave gaps of a few centimetres between your cookies as they'll spread a little when they're in the oven.
  2. Press the remaining M&Ms into the top of the cookies. Press them in a little bit so they don't fall out. This is a good way of making sure each cookie has a good amount of M&Ms in it.
  3. Chill the cookies in the fridge for at least 15 minutes or so before you bake them to stop them spreading too much in the oven.
Bake the rainbow M&M cookies
  1. Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes. They’re ready when they’ve started to turn golden brown. I like them, a little bit soft and chewy, but if you don’t you can keep them in the oven for another minutes or two
  2. Remove them from the oven and leave them to cool on the trays for a few minutes before popping them onto a wire rack to cool completely.