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Chewy M&M Peanut Butter Cookies

  • Makes 36
  • Prep 5 minutes
  • Cook 10 minutes
  • Total 15 minutes
Chewy M&M Peanut Butter Cookies

These chewy M&M Peanut Butter Cookies are rich, buttery, sweet, and crazy easy! No rolling or chilling, solid chewy sugar cookies with M&M's!

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

Solid good Chewy M&M Peanut Butter Cookies

There are so many cookies out there! There are chocolate, peanut butter, nut, sprinkles, sugar, so many different types. These cookies are the combination of two of our son's favorite types of cookies. He LOVES M&M cookies and peanut butter cookies.

If you are looking for a nut-free alternative for kids with nut allergies try making these with sunflower seed butter instead of peanut butter or make a batch or each!

To Make These Chewy M&M Peanut Butter Cookies, You'll Need:

Baking Sheet

Parchment Paper

Mixing Spoon

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The Best Chewy M&M Cookies Ever Recipe

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ Cups All purpose flour
  • 1 ½ Tsp Baking powder
  • 1 Tsp Baking soda
  • ½ Tsp Salt
  • ½ Cup Granulated sugar
  • ½ Cup Brown sugar
  • 1 Cup butter softened
  • 1 Cup Crunchy peanut butter
  • 2 Large eggs
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla
  • 1 ½ Cups M&M's

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
  2. Prepare a baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray or line with parchment paper
  3. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl
  4. In bowl of stand mixer, or large bowl with hand mixer, beat together the butter and peanut butter until fluffy
  5. Add egg to butter and peanut butter and beat until incorporated
  6. Beat in sugars and vanilla until combined
  7. With mixer running, add dry mixture to wet mixture in thirds until everything is fully incorporated
  8. Stir the M&M's into the dough
  9. Drop dough by heaping Tablespoon fulls onto prepared baking sheet
  10. Press down on dough gently to flatten slightly
  11. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes