M&M Easter Cookies Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Can you eat M&M cookie dough? ›

Well guess what, Now You can! These bite sized edible cookie dough pieces combined with your favorite candy, provide an on-the go snack you can share. Forget the days of sneaking this forbidden snack, Now you can eat it safely and guilt free!

In the bowl of a stand mixer, or using an electric hand mixer, beat the butter and sugar together on medium speed until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides with a spatula and continue beating. This process typically takes anywhere from 2-5 minutes.

The color on the M&Ms will bleed if you over mix the batter, so do it gently. You'll spoon your cookie dough onto the baking sheet and then top your M&M Cookies with even more M&Ms.

Recipe overview

The brown sugar will impart moisture, sweetness, and chew. Add egg and vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir in M&M's and chocolate chips.

If you store it in your fridge, you can usually expect this cookie dough to last about 1 to 2 weeks past the “best by” date. In your freezer, frozen raw cookie dough can actually last 9 to 12 months, giving you plenty of time to use it before it goes bad.

Although eating raw cookie dough has always been delicious, it has also been very dangerous. This is because flour is at risk of exposure to naturally occurring microbiological threats, including E. coli and Salmonella.

Melted butter is best suited for drop doughs such as chocolate chip, peanut butter, and sugar cookies, as well as most cookie bars. You can usually adapt recipes that don't originally call for melted butter to use this technique if you're looking for an even fudgier texture.

Over-creamed butter and sugar adds in too much air and alters the final texture – typically to be more gummy and dense. Sometimes over-creaming can produce cakes, cupcakes, or cookies that collapse upon baking or while cooling if the mixture is well and truly over-creamed (where it looks like curdled milk).

Too much butter makes cookies turn out just as you'd expect: very buttery. This batch of cookies was cakey in the middle, but also airy throughout, with crispy edges.

Mars originally added purple M&Ms to the batch 20 years ago, after a poll found fans preferred purple to other potential M&M colors, according to the Associated Press. Purple took home 41%, beating out aqua and pink.

Why did they get rid of red M&M? ›

Much to the public's dismay, the Mars and Murray Company stopped production of red M&Ms because of a health scare concerning Red Dye Number 2, which at the time was the most common red food dye in use.

If your cookies consistently come out flat, you may have selected the wrong baking temperature. If you bake cookies using too much heat, the fats in the dough begin to melt before the other ingredients can cook together and form your cookie's rise.

How do you keep M&Ms from bleeding in cookies? Make sure you gently stir them into the dough with a spatula. Don't over mix. Some of the chocolate candies might melt and bleed a little while baking and that is ok.

How do M&Ms not melt in cookies? M&Ms are made with a hard candy shell that protects the chocolate in the center from melting. However, during baking the candy shell might slightly crack from the heat or become more incorporated into the dough. Don't worry, they still taste just as delicious!

Massachusetts: Chocolate Chip

The chocolate chip cookie was designated the official cookie of the Commonwealth on July 9, 1997. A third grade class from Somerset proposed the bill to honor the cookie invented in 1930 at the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman.

You can safely eat cookie dough if you take the right precautions! To make edible cookie dough at home, replace or omit the flour and egg to avoid the risk of an infection. There are plenty of easy egg substitutes, from flaxseed meal to a mashed banana.

Yes. We use pasteurized eggs for safety. Pasteruization is a process of heating eggs to kill harmful bacteria and thus making them safe to eat raw.

All our products are vegan, non-gmo verified and can be eaten raw. So bake up a batch of cookies with our traditional cookie dough, indulge with a CORE or grab a bag of our bite-sized protein cookie dough and skip the spooning altogether!

FAQs and Expert Tips. Is it safe to eat sugar cookie dough? Absolutely. Because there are no raw eggs in this cookie dough, and the flour is heat treated to kill any harmful bacteria (like e-coli) that could be living in the flour, the dough is totally safe to eat.