Red, White and Blue M&M’S Cookie Bars – These easy cookie bars loaded with Red, White and Blue M&M’S and mini chocolate chips are the perfect 4th of July Dessert.
Red, White and Blue Cookie Bars
Red, White and Blue M&M’S are one of my favorite M&M’S variations! I just love the patriotic mix, and I think they are perfect for my favorite M&M’S Cookie Bars. Bake these up for the 4th of July or Memorial Day, they are perfect for feeding a crowd and so much easier than traditional cookies. Depending on how you cut them, they can make from 18 to 36 bars.
HOW TO MAKE M&M COOKIE BARS
- Start by mixing the cookie dough. The dough should be fairly thick, so a stand mixer is best, but you can also use a hand mixer.
- Beat together two sticks of room temperature butter with brown sugar and granulated sugar.
- Add in eggs and vanilla extract and continue mixing until well combined.
- Add flour, salt, and baking soda and mix just until cookie dough forms.
- Finally, stir in chocolate chips and M&M’S.
- Transfer cookie dough to a 9×13 cake pan lined with foil and sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. This makes the bars easier to lift out and cut after baking.
- Sprinkle dough with additional M&M’s and mini chocolate chips.
- Bake 30-35 minutes in a 350 degree oven until bars are golden brown.
- Let cool completely and cut.
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I’m seriously in love with these M&M’S Cookie Bars! They are so pretty and easy to make, and the very best part is they are perfectly delicious! I use seasonal M&M’S to make these cookie bars for the holidays. The Christmas version is the most popular Christmas Cookie on Pinterest!
These easy cookie bars loaded with Red, White and Blue M&M'S and mini chocolate chips are the perfect 4th of July Dessert.
- 2 sticks of butter at room temperature
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- 1 cup of firmly packed golden brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups of all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon of salt
- 1 1/2 cups of Red White & Blue M&M'S, plus more for topping
- 1 cup of mini chocolate chips plus more for topping
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Line a 9x13 aluminum baking dish with foil, leave some overhang to make removal easier.
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Spray foil generously with nonstick cooking spray.
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In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar together until fluffy.
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Add in eggs and vanilla extract and continue to beat.
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Lower speed of mixer and add flour, baking soda and salt, and mix until combined.
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Add M&M's and mini chocolate chips and give a final stir, reserving some M&M's and mini chocolate chips for topping cookie bars.
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Transfer cookie dough to prepared baking dish.
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Press additional M&M'S and mini chocolate chips into top of cookie dough.
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Bake 30 to 35 minutes.
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Let cool completely and cut.
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Do you think I could I make these ahead of time and freeze them?
I made a double batch of this for a family dinner and everyone loved it! Thanks for the great post!
I made these and they were a hit! So much easier than cookies and made a TON! Thanks so much!
Making for our weekend at the lake!
So festive and delicious! These bars are always a hit!
So festive – I want to eat them all!
These look completely addicting!
Perfect timing! I was looking for an easy treat for a family get-together this weekend!!
What a fun and festive dessert! We make these just for fun, too!
Do you think I could use parchment paper insteAd and use a jelly roll pan to make a bigger batch?
I don’t think a jelly roll pan would be tall enough. I have tested it out with parchment paper, but the dough is thick and hard to spread on parchment paper.
These are always a huge hit. My family loves these bars!
These were so addicting, I served them with ice cream and they were gone within minutes!!
These were so delicious and very yummy! My family and I loved these! Excited to make these again soon!
I’ve made these so many times, all with different festive m & m’s! Great recipe!
Super easy and so addictive! I could eat this every day! It will be easy to do so, too, since I can just change out the seasonal M&Ms for other ones! YUM!
The whole fam LOVED these & I can’t wait to make them again for Memorial Day! They are addictingly good!!
Made these yesterday for our 4th of July party – they were DELICIOUS!!! Everyone loved them and they were so fun and easy! Thanks for the recipe!!
These were delicious. I loved how easy they were and made a lot. I put chocolate chips inside and m&m’s on the top. I will definitely be making these again. Thanks!