I have always liked the M&M cookies in the grocery store. You know, the ones that come in a plastic container and are made by the bakery and deli at the grocery store in your local neighborhood store? They have M&Ms or some attempt at M&Ms – some chocolate coated candy baked into them. And as a kid I always thought it was really neat how the color of the M&Ms absorbed a little into the cookie.
I wanted to figure out if I could make my own. I know there are a lot of recipes on Pinterest for cake batter cookies. My mom had handed me a recipe before for cake batter snickerdoodles – and it’s delicious. Now she, my sister, and I all make them.
I wanted to try my hand coming up with an M&M cookie recipe using cake batter as its main ingredient.
Here’s what I used:
- 1 box of Pillsbury yellow cake mix
- 1 box of M&Ms (think movie-theatre style box, but a bag or two would work too)
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup of cooking oil
I preheated the oven to 350F. Then I mixed my cake mix, oil, and eggs together until they were all blended well. It’ll create a sticky sort of dough.
I slowly stirred in my M&Ms so they are evenly dispersed.
Then, once your batter is all set, spray your cooking pan with a light dusting of nonstick baking spray (and yes I do this even if they are nonstick pans), and set down rounded, ball-like scoops of dough. I spread them apart pretty far here because I wasn’t sure how large they’d bake to be, but I think you could reasonably fit 6-8 on a standard-sized cooking sheet.
Bake at 350F for 10-11 minutes.
Y’all, these are so soft and delicious – I was surprised at just HOW good they were; I thought that with a made up attempt at a copycat recipe, they might not be super great, but here I am, blogging about them the very next day because I actually like them better than what I would buy from the bakery at my grocery store!
One batch should make about 18 large cookies, or, if you used smaller dough portions, 24 smaller cookies.
Enjoy!
Kate with a Twang 
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