Santa's Favorite Cookies

Santa's Favorite Cookies

Santa has been patiently waiting for his favorite cookies with M&M's and white chocolate chips. This year, I baked them and made it on Santa's nice list. He is forever grateful and will come again next year for more cookies, and to leave me lots of presents under the tree. I found green and red M&M's for this recipe and combined with the white chocolate chips, they are superb. With each yummy bite, you get M&Ms, white chocolate chips, or both. Don't forget to leave Santa a glass of milk and his favorite cookies. There is no mixer required for this recipe. Merry Christmas!

Yield: 3 Dozen Cookies

Santa's Favorite Cookies

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour

3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 teaspoon Coarse Salt

1/2 cup Vanilla Sugar (or Granulated Sugar)

1 cup Light Brown Sugar, packed

1 1/2 cups (1 1/2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, melted and cooled

1 Large Egg plus 1 Large Yolk, room temperature

2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract

1 bag (10 ounces) Milk Chocolate M&M's

1 cup White Chocolate Chips

Santa's Favorite Cookies

Close-up - yum!

Santa's Favorite Cookies

Directions

Heat oven to 425°F.

Line baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.

Just taken out of the oven

In a bowl, whisk together the cooled melted butter, light brown sugar, and vanilla sugar until combined.

Whisk in the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla extract until combined.

With a spatula stir in half of the flour mixture and combine. 

Stir in M&M's and white chocolate chips, and the remaining half of the flour mixture and combine.

Using a tablespoon or cookie scoop, form and place dough balls on baking sheets lined with parchment paper spacing 2 inches apart.

Cookies are cooling

Take the bottom of a kitchen glass and press gently to flatten the dough slightly. 

Repeat for each dough ball.   

Bake for 8 to 9 minutes. 

Cookies will look slightly underdone but they will continue to bake for a few more minutes when you take them out of the oven. 

Wait 5 minutes and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely. 

Adapted from Cook's Country | December/January 2021 | M&M Cookies.

Enjoy!

-Sophia/Two Frys