Festive Holiday Cookies
on Nov 11, 2022, Updated Dec 10, 2023
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These are the perfect 🎄 Festive Holiday Cookies. This cookie recipe takes 5 minutes to whip up and only a second to devour. If you love chocolate chip cookies, you will absolutely love this festive touch. The red and green Christmas M&M’s will get you into the holiday spirit. The only thing I ask of you when baking cookies is to enjoy the process and have FUN!
Why You’ll Love Festive Holiday Cookies
These Festive Holiday Cookies with 🔴 M&Ms 🟢 are not only delicious but also so cute with their pop of color from the M&M’s. It is so easy to put these together in the mixer, and you can make a small batch or double (or triple!) it for a large crowd if you’re entertaining.
Even better? Have the 🧒 kids help! With how quickly this recipe comes together, you’ll be glad you had them help. Share the joy by baking a batch for your loved ones – simple, tasty, and sure to be a hit with friends and family. These Festive Holiday Cookies would be a great option for bringing to a party.
How to Prepare Festive Holiday Cookies
🔥 Preheat the oven to 350°F.
🧈 Use a handheld or stand mixer with a paddle attachment to cream the butter and sugars until smooth.
🥚 Add egg and vanilla extract, and then mix for about a minute on medium-low speed.
🧂 Gradually add flour, baking soda, a pinch of salt, and mix until a tacky dough forms.
🎄 Mix or fold in M&M’s.
🍪 Scoop 24 small cookies onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet (or you could make 12 large cookies).
♨️ Bake for 12-15 minutes or until edges are golden.
❤️ Enjoy and share the recipe with your loved ones.
Nonna’s Tip 🍪
Feel free to use fillings such as walnuts, chocolate chips, and white chocolate, in addition to or instead of the M&Ms.
Variations and Substitutions for Festive Holiday Cookies
These Festive Holiday Cookies 🎄 are delicious and can be modified for allergies or for what you have available in your pantry! Be sure to adjust quantities accordingly and have fun experimenting with these variations to suit your taste preferences!
- Instead of M&M’s, you can use 🍫 chocolate chips or chunks.
- Add chopped nuts such as walnuts, pecans, or almonds for a nutty crunch.
- Replace M&M’s with white chocolate chips for a sweeter, vanilla-flavored twist.
- Incorporate peanut butter chips 🥜 or swirl in peanut butter for a nice peanut butter and chocolate combo.
- Substitute all-purpose flour with a 1-1 gluten-free flour for a gluten-free version of these Festive Holiday Cookies.
- Add a pinch of cinnamon, nutmeg, or all-spice for some added 🔥 spice.
- For a vegan (or dairy-free) or 🌿 plant-based cookie, replace butter with vegan butter, use a flax egg instead of a regular egg, and ensure your M&M’s.
More Holiday Cookie Recipes
Don’t forget the Easy Gingerbread Cookies for 🎅 Santa!
Common Questions
You are more than welcome to try making these gluten-free by using a 1-1 gluten-free baking all-purpose flour instead.
Your local grocery store should sell them, or you can check Amazon.
Yes, vegan butter will work if you don’t want to use regular butter.
Feel free to use any fillings such as walnuts, chocolate chips, white chocolate, or anything else instead if you don’t have M&Ms
While 1 cup of flour weighs 160g in my kitchen, it might weigh anywhere from 120 to 180g in your kitchen and there’s a few reasons for that. The weight of ingredients may vary due to the brand of ingredients, the brand and style (wet vs dry) of measuring cups and spoons, and the technique for measuring into cups: scooping and leveling versus spooning the ingredients into the cup measure. For best results, go by the weight listed in the recipe.
Holiday Cookies
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. You are more than welcome to use a handheld mixer or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment.
- In the stand mixer, cream the butter and the sugars together until nice and smooth.
- Add the egg and pure vanilla extract, mix for about a minute again on medium-low speed.
- Gradually add the flour, baking soda, pinch of salt, and mix on medium low speed until a tacky dough forms.
- Mix or fold in the m and m's and take a spoon or an ice-cream scoop and scoop out 24 small cookies onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You can also make 12 large cookies as well but the baking time may increase.
- Bake for 12 minutes or until the edges are golden.
My Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I bake cookies with my two boys every year as part of our Christmas Eve tradition. We will definitely add these to our repertoire! ❤️💚
Easy and delicious basic cookie with the added holiday fun with Christmas colored M&Ms! I often exchange out the colors to match other holidays, so I make these often! Thank you!
I love this idea! How cute would pastel M&Ms be for Easter?! 🐰