Today I introduce you to the best Peanut Butter M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies! They're thick and chewy with little bursts of creamy peanut butter!
So perfectly soft.
I took a casual stroll down the candy aisle the other day and I saw the most adorable Easter Egg Peanut Butter M&Ms! Into my cart they went.
The only reason I allow myself to buy peanut butter M&Ms is if I bake with them, because they are not safe around me.
Or I am not safe around them.
I’m not really sure which is more apt.
Probably both.
In my college days, when Peanut Butter M&M’s first came out, I would devour entire bags! And not the small bags. #nojudgement
I was obsessed! I was powerless in the face of such a yummy candy! Powerless, I tell you!
As you will be in the face of these Peanut Butter M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies! Peanut Butter M&M’s and mini chocolate chips are folded into a brown sugar cookie base and then baked to chewy perfection!
I made them extra large for maximum chewiness and to accommodate the large PB M&Ms. Or at least that is what I told myself (and my Husband).
Just look at how chewy and soft it is!
Are you concerned about having huge Peanut Butter M&M’s in your cookie? I know I was.
Don’t be! They are delicious!
You are happily chewing away thinking, “this is a fabulous chocolate chip cookie” when, BAM, you get a PB M&M and your eyes widen and all you can think to say is “mmmm can I have another?” And then the whole plate is gone…just sayin’…
Use the adorable Easter Egg PB M&Ms if you like or make this amazing cookie recipe all year long with the standard ones…They will taste just as good! No Easter grass necessary.
I got a leete carried away with the pictures...my bad. #sorryimnotsorry
Peanut Butter M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 ½ cups unsalted butter (slightly softened)
- 1 ¼ cups dark brown sugar (packed )
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup peanut butter M&Ms (reserve some for placing on top the dough balls)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375° and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugars together in the bowl of a stand mixer until light and fluffy. I would not recommend using a hand mixer or trying to make this batter by hand.
- Add eggs and vanilla, beating until well incorporated.
- Gradually stir in flour in several additions. I usually do 5.
- Stir in M&Ms and mini chocolate chips.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours to overnight for the chewiest cookies. You can also skip this step, but your cookies will spread more.
- Roll dough balls the size of half a tennis ball and place 1 inch apart on a cookie sheet.
- Bake 9-10 minutes or until the edges are set but the centers still look underbaked.
What a beautiful spring cookie! I just love baking with seasonal candies 🙂
Simple pleasures! They totally make me happy!
1. OOOOH so chewy and perfectly peanut buttery!!!
2. preeeetttyyyy
3. I looooove love love peanut butter m&m's (although they came out way longer ago than that! I used to have them after school when I was little (just googled it-they came out in 1990 :P)
4.yayayayyyy hooray for these amazing cookies!
Lol! Thank you, Kayle!! You're so sweet!!
As for #3, I guess I was late to the party!!! [bc FYI I was not in college in the 90's!]
lol well no I didn't think sooo! lol
Just makin' sure! It's probably for the best that I didn't discover them until college... lol!
Uh oh! 🙂 I can see how these would be TOTALLY addictive. Yes, I probably couldn't stop eating them until I had at least a dozen. Love!
Thanks! These are DANGEROUS! I actually hid some from my Husband!
Hahahaha! I'm all about that! I support you! 🙂
ALOL! 😉
Love the springy Easter colors! I can imagine you make a beautiful Easter basket. Peanut butter M&Ms in a chocolate chip cookie...yum! I cant believe you devoured bags of M&M's! Lol If I did that, I think I'd be blowing up and getting diabetes.
Thanks! I obviously got a little carried away with the pictures but it was just so much fun! Who doesn't love Easter grass? Actually this Easter grass was almost the end of my super-curious cat...so no more Easter baskets around here 🙁
Who said the PB m&ms didn't play a significant roll in the Freshman 15?! 😉 Not even 2 hours of gym-time can remedy that situation!