Peanut Butter M&M Cookies are thick, soft, chewy, melt-in-your-mouth delicious, and loaded with creamy peanut butter and peanut butter m&m's. These peanut butter cookie never last long at my house.
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Anyone else buy the big jars of peanut butter in bulk from Sam's Club?? Well, I do. My daughter has been caught several times eating out of the jar with a spoon. If I don't catch her, I always know she's been in it because she'll leave her spoon in the jar.... Same with ice cream. Just the other night I found 2 spoons sitting inside the ice cream carton. Sneaky little thing.
Between my girls eating peanut butter by the spoonful's and all the peanut butter cookies that get made at my house, we go through our fair share of peanut butter.
These cookies are so incredibly soft, thick, puffy, and exploding with peanut buttery goodness! I won't even pretend like I controlled myself and only ate 1. Ugh! Oh well, a few of these and some episodes of Revenge on Netflix -----> my current obsession! made for an awesome evening while the hubs was working late and the kids finally went to bed!
Probably my favorite part is the sugar topping. It gets crunchy & sweet while the cookies bake and it's so yummy. You don't need the sugar coating but I always use it because that's what peanut butter cookies have. It makes such a difference.
My kids' favorite part are the peanut butter m&m's. They like to pick off the m&m's on the top and then eat the cookie. Or if you're like my daughter, she just picks off the m&m's and then licks that sugar topping. But no matter how you eat them be sure and have a tall glass of cold milk. You'll need it with these cookies.
To get "pretty" cookies add a few peanut butter m&m's on top of the dough ball before baking. Or you can press some in right after they come out of the oven.
I like to press them in right after they come out of the oven because the cookies don't spread hardly at all while baking, so when you press the m&m into the top, it spreads the cookie our more into the classic cookie shape. M&M's also tend to crack while baking which is another reason I press them in after baking.
I hope you love these peanut butter m&m cookies. They are so yummy and sweet!
Peanut Butter M&M’s Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted butter softened
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup coarsely chopped peanut butter m&m's
Extras
- ¼ cup granulated sugar (for rolling the cookies in)
- whole peanut butter m&ms (about 3-4 per cookie)
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350° F. Prepare a cookie sheet by lining with parchment paper, silpat liner, or spray with cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl with an electric hand mixer, or use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, sugar, and egg until combined and fluffy looking. * This will take at least 1 minute to get the mixture combined evenly, fluffy looking, and it will be lighter in color.
- In a small mixing bowl add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir with a wire whisk. Dump the dry ingredients into the butter and sugar mixture. Beat on low speed just until combined.
- Mix in the coarsely chopped m&m's.
- Using a medium cookie scoop (1 ½ tablespoons) roll the dough into a ball and then roll the dough ball in the granulated sugar, making sure that it is well coated. Place 12 per cookie sheet and repeat with the remaining cookie dough. * Put the ¼ cup granulated sugar into a bowl.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. * DO NOT overcook peanut butter cookies! They will continue cooking slightly while cooling on the warm cookie sheet. The cookies should be puffy but still pale looking when you take them out of the oven.
- Take the cookies out of the oven and immediately press 3-4 whole peanut butter m&m's onto the top of each cookie. This will help them spread out a bit more and make them look pretty. Let the cookies cool on the warm cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes before removing them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
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These look delicious, my UPKer loves M&M's. Nice silpat, too! 🙂
The recipe does not say how many it makes.
So sorry! I always seem to forget to put that on the recipe cards. It makes 2 dozen cookies 🙂
It does not say what to heat the oven to anywhere on the recipe.
Oooops! So sorry. Thank you for catching that. The oven temperature is 350 degrees.
Loved the recipe but found it impossible to chop the slippery, hard shell m & ms. Is there a trick to it?
I put some m&m's into a freezer ziploc bag and then use a meat pounder/tenderizer to crush them. A rolling pin or bottom of a skillet pan will also work ?
Very tasty