I swear you’re not seeing things. These cookies are, indeed, itty bitty teeny tiny. You can probably fit about 5 in your mouth at once, but considering how much we love cookies around here… I’d say closer to 10. 😉 We’re using a basic chocolate chip cookie dough with M&Ms instead of chocolate chips. These mini cookies are scaled WAY down to be just a little larger than a quarter. There’s absolutely no dough chilling required (yay!). They’re soft in the centers and chewy on the edges, much like these regular chocolate chip cookies. And if you need a bazillion cookies for gift-giving or bringing into the office… this recipe yields 85. LOL.
How to Make Mini M&M Cookies
There’s NO cookie dough chilling today! We start with a basic soft-baked chocolate chip cookie dough base. Nothing too fancy or complicated, just the usual gang: butter, sugars, flour, egg, etc. Use mini M&Ms. If you reach for the regular size M&Ms, you’ll only fit, like, 2 in each cookie. Each mini cookie needs to be full of festive M&Ms, so mini size is best. Let’s review:
Whisk the dry ingredients together. Don’t add the M&Ms yet—we add those last. Cream the wet ingredients together. Combine the wet and dry ingredients. Add the M&Ms. Roll cookie dough into balls. About 1 teaspoon of dough per cookie! Bake. Because these cookies are so small, they only need about 7-8 minutes in the oven. Enjoy!
Baker’s Tip: Use a teaspoon to measure the cookie dough per cookie. You’ll probably feel extremely silly doing this and I admit… it’s entertaining. The cookie dough balls are SO SMALL. You’re rolling 85 of them and that definitely takes a few minutes. So grab a helping hand (or a few little bakers!) and get a kick out of it together. If you can’t handle the thought of rolling all that dough, try making these soft M&M cookie bars instead. These mini M&M cookies are hilariously small and perfectly pop-able.
More Christmas Cookie Recipes
Santa’s Whiskers Cookies Spritz Cookies Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Snowball Cookies Christmas Sugar Cookies (same great dough as these favorite Sugar Cookies!) Drop Style Christmas Cookies Christmas Cookie Sparkles Peppermint Mocha Cookies
I’m not sure who loves them more… adults or children. Or Santa. Ah well, ’tis the season! For even more inspiration, see my complete roundup of 75+ Christmas cookies. Just as tasty with regular mini M&Ms too 🙂
