Double Chocolate M&M Cookies

Double Chocolate M&M Cookies – Rich chocolate cookies loaded with festive M&M’s and chocolate chips.

Double Chocolate M&M Cookies

Easy to make and easy to eat! Treat your chocolate lover to these double chocolate cookies loaded with chocolate chips and M&M’s. I love the way the color of the M&M’s pops against the chocolate cookie dough. They look (and taste) so fun and festive. The cookie dough is similar to a rich homemade chocolate brownie in a cookie form, and the chocolate chips and M&M’s give it texture and shape. Be sure to try my tip for getting perfectly shaped cookies.

Ingredients for Double Chocolate M&M Cookies

• Butter – I used unsalted butter for this recipe. Make sure it is cooled to room temperature before mixing with the sugar. Hot butter mixed with the sugars will cause the cookies to spread.
• Sugar – granulated white sugar.
• Light Brown Sugar – should be fresh and moist, not dry and hard.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – Hershey’s Cocoa recommended
• Pure Vanilla Extract
• Eggs – one whole egg and one egg yolk at room temperature for best mixing.
• All-Purpose Flour
• Kosher Salt
• Baking Soda – use fresh for best results.
• Chocolate Chips – I used Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips.
• M&M’S

How to Make Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

1. Preheat oven and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Beat together melted and cooled butter, sugar, brown sugar, and cocoa powder.
3. Add eggs and vanilla extract.
4. Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl, then add to stand mixer.
5. Stir in chocolate chips and M&M’s.
6. Use a cookie dough scoop to measure cookie dough and add additional M&M’s and chocolate chips to top of cookie dough before baking.

How to Make Perfectly Round Cookies

Immediately, when removing the cookies from the oven, use a large cup to spin the hot cookies until they are a perfect circle. The rim of the cup should be quite a bit bigger than the cookie. The rim of my cup was 4 inches wide, and the finished cookies are 2 1/2 inches wide.

1. Remove cookies from oven. Cookies should be on parchment paper for easy sliding.
2. Working quickly while the cookies are still very hot, use a large cup or glass and place upside down over an individual cookie.
3. Use the cup to spin the cookie inside in a tight circle so the edges of the cookie are hitting the inside rim of the cup.
4. Just one or two firm spins should be enough to even out the cookies into a circle.
5. Let cool and serve.

More Cookie Recipes

• M&M Christmas Cookie Bars
• Candy Cane Cookies
• Chocolate Chip S’Mores Cookies
• Peanut Butter Cookie Cups