Helloooo peanut butter cookies!
Life has been pretty busy- as it always is this- time of year. I’ve been doing some last minute Christmas shopping and today we had our office Christmas party. It was a blast and I stayed out later than planned. Oh, and I didn’t wake up early this morning as I wanted to so I could finish this post. Life happens and I’m ok with it.
I’m so glad I get to share these cookies with you today though! Even though I’ve had some recipe failures lately, these cookies were spot on the first time I made them. They are soft and creamy in the middle, with a perfectly light brown bottom. Peanut butter cookies are one of my all-time favorites and if you add red and green M&Ms AND mini chocolate chips then my life is pretty much made.
This year, I finally joined The Food Blogger Cookie Swap and I made these 3 dozen of these babies to ship around the U.S. In return, I received three dozen cookies from three different bloggers. I got beautiful chocolate shortbread snowflakes, cranberry orange cookies, and the best sugar cookies with icing. Talk about lucky!
I took lots of cookies to my office so that I wasn’t eating them all myself and they were devoured before lunchtime! Being a part of the cookie swap this year was so much fun, and boy am I glad that these Peanut Butter M&M Cookies were the result.
I hope you are making lots of cookies, enjoying the holidays, and letting life happen too!
- 1 cup creamy natural unsweetened peanut butter
- 3/4 cup (1 and 1/2 sticks) butter, softened
- 2/3 cup brown sugar, unpacked
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups (256 g) whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup red and green M&Ms
- 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips (regular sized is ok too!)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add peanut butter, butter, and sugar to a large bowl and cream using an electric mixer until combined (no more than a minute).
- Add in eggs and vanilla extract and beat again until mixed.
- Add flour, baking soda, and salt and stir until just mixed (don’t overmix).
- Add M&Ms and chocolate chips and fold them into the dough to combine.
- Roll dough into 24 even sized balls and place on a lined baking sheet (I use Silpat mats to line my sheets).
- Bake for 9 minutes or until very lightly browned on the bottom. Remove and let cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and let cool completely.
These are just too fun and festive. Plus, what could be better than peanut butter and chocolate?
Possibly my favorite combo in the cookie world! Thanks for visiting, Diana.
I love m’n’ms and peanut butter! This looks like one of my favorite combos! ))
The best combo if you ask me 😉
Yummy these sound awesome. Thanks for sharing this recipe. Simon
So glad you like the look of them, Simon! And thanks for stopping by 🙂