Kids in the Kitchen Wednesday: M&M Cookies

Few foods remind a person of their childhood quite like M&M cookies. The Wisconsin Test Kitchen recently found a recipe for "The Perfect M&M Cookies' and decided to give it a try. The blogger claimed that vanilla pudding was crucial to the perfect cookie. We had to give it a try.

Perfect M&M Cookies

 

Recipe courtesy of www.picky-palate.com

1 stick/1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1 large egg

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1-1/2 cups all purpose flour

3 tablespoons Instant vanilla pudding

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

1 cup mini M&Ms candies

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silpat liner (this keeps the cookies from sticking to the cookie sheet).

 

In a large mixing bowl, cream your butter and sugars until well combined. Add your egg and vanilla mixing to combine. Add your flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt, stirring until all ingredients are incorporated. Add chocolate chips and M&M's and combine.

 

 

 

With a medium cookie scoop, place dough 1 inch apart from each other.

 

 

Bake for 10-12 minutes until cooked through. Let cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. 

 

 

 

Makes 2 dozen cookies

 

The verdict? These cookies were pretty delicious. We used kosher salt, which gave the cookies that perfect sweet/salty combination. While we're unsure what the addition of vanilla pudding did; we'll just say it made the cookies even tastier. You can't really argue with that.

This very well might be our new go-to cookie recipe. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

 

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The Cool Dads Crew