Spring Easter M&M Cookies [+Video]

Deliciously thick, soft, and chewy spring Easter M&M Cookies! These cookies are the epitome of a perfect chocolate chip cookie: delightfully crunchy around the edges with a warm, soft center. Trust me, you absolutely must enjoy one while it’s warm!

I have seriously never worked so quickly to get a recipe out to you all, but the response on our Instagram for our M&M cookies was out of control, so I just had to put these Easter cookies into your hands!

I am almost always making and photographing recipes a year in advance. Therefore, these last few weeks, I’ve been developing, making, and photographing recipes for next spring and Easter. However, I just couldn’t resist showing you all the most perfect and awe-inspiring Easter M&M cookies that I had made last week. They were simply too glorious not to share…and you all agreed!

In fact, you agreed so much that I got bombarded with emails, DMs, comments, and all the things (which I LOVE). So, here they are—you don’t have to wait a whole year because I’m just that nice!

Endless Possibilities for Add-Ins

Even though Easter is over, this recipe works great with any add-ins you want. For instance, you can swap the Easter M&M’s for regular M&M’s or any holiday M&M’s. Since the 4th of July is just around the corner, can you imagine them with red, white, and blue? I can’t wait! Additionally, you could use Reese’s Pieces or pretty much anything else you desire. I’m going to write a whole section about add-ins below.

Furthermore, these cookies do not need to wait in the fridge, but I believe that they taste a little better if you let the dough rest. The key is that anytime you refrigerate or freeze a cookie, you want to give it about 15-30 minutes on the counter (if refrigerated overnight) to rest, the same goes for frozen cookies.

Ingredients for Easter M&M Cookies

This will be pretty much your standard list of ingredients for classic chocolate chip cookies plus some M&M’s. Here is what you will need:

• Unsalted Butter – using unsalted allows you to control the saltiness of the recipe and make sure it is softened but not too soft!
• Brown Sugar – you want fresh moist brown sugar to make the texture of these cookies perfect
• White Sugar – just regular granulated white sugar
• Egg – gives structure to the cookies and helps hold everything together
• Vanilla Extract – adds to the flavor, and use the real stuff…no imitation vanilla

• Flour – make sure to measure the flour correctly so they come out chewy and soft
• Baking Soda – gives the cookies their rise and fluffiness
• Cornstarch – helps make the cookies stay thick and soft
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Cookies

Indulge in a guilt-free treat with these easy-to-make peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast cookies. Made with whole grain oats and creamy peanut butter, these cookies are both nutritious and delicious. Try out the recipe today!

We have an apple cinnamon breakfast cookie and a spiced white chocolate craisin breakfast cookie so I thought it was high time to get a peanut butter chocolate breakfast cookie out there!

We use ripe bananas, molasses and pure maple syrup for natural sweeteners and oats for heartiness that will keep you satisfied and fueled for your morning. Our family can’t get enough of these!

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

Just 7 household ingredients is all you need to make this breakfast cookie recipe! Here is everything you’ll need:

• Peanut Butter: we prefer creamy peanut butter like Jif or Skippy
• Overripe Bananas: adds natural sweetness, you want bananas with lots of brown spots on them
• Maple Syrup: adds more natural sweetness
• Molasses: adds sweetness and rich flavor, substitute honey if desired
• Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: provides the best structure and texture for the cookies
• Milk Chocolate Chips: We like the flavor of milk chocolate in these cookies, but feel free to use whatever chocolate chips like love best.
• Salt: enhances all the flavors

Keep scrolling down to the end of the post for all the measurements and details for this recipe.

How to Make Peanut Butter Breakfast Cookies

One of the most beautiful things about this peanut butter oatmeal cookie recipe is that it’s all made in one bowl! Grab a wooden spoon, a large mixing bowl and our measuring spoons/cups and let’s make these easy oatmeal breakfast cookies!

1. Prep: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a baking sheet with a silpat or parchment paper.
2. Mix: Add the peanut butter to a large bowl along with the bananas, maple syrup, molasses and salt and mix mashing the bananas as you stir.
3. Fold: Add the oats and chocolate chips and fold everything together until well incorporated.
4. Scoop: Using a cookie scoop, scoop the cookie dough into balls on the prepared baking sheet. Press the tops gently to flatten them out as these will not spread at all.
5. Bake: Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes and serve warm.

The recipe card below contains these instructions and the recipe in full detail. You can also save or print the recipe there.

Alternatives and Variations

If you aren’t a peanut butter fan or want a different nutty f

Classic Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe [+Video]

Looking for the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe? Look no further! These classic peanut butter cookies are easy to make and sure to be a hit with the whole family. They are soft and chewy and everything you want in a peanut butter cookie!

I originally wrote this post for classic peanut butter cookies and then had the feeling that I should dedicate this post to my parents, and I try to always follow those little feelings. Thank you for taking the time to always encourage, patiently teach and most of all love me through anything and everything. You gave me the wings to fly anywhere and become anything.

Music and food. Two things that store up memories like nothing else. I can love a book but never remember what was going on when I was reading it. A certain song though, well suddenly I’m right back in college teaching a Pilates class, or driving to a marching band practice. Yup. Totally did that. haha, but seriously, music and food bring back so many memories and I bet a few of you have one attached to classic peanut butter cookies.

Making Memories in the Kitchen

This may seem ridiculous to some of you, but I so badly wanted to feel like I could do things on my own as a kid. With siblings much older than me I watched them doing all sorts of fun and cool things and I just wanted to be big like them. I know, I should have been more content with being little because looking back I am bummed I didn’t take more advantage of being carefree. Either way, I distinctly remember my mom making peanut butter cookies one day and she let me sit up on a stool and help her make the criss-cross pattern with a fork on top of the cookie dough.

How silly, a fork to press a pattern into a cookie and warm memories attached to just that. I can see the same desire in our oldest and I struggle as a mom to let her, even encourage her to be little and at the same time push her to be more and more responsible each year. It’s in these little moments that I feel balanced, a mom having fun and being little alongside her daughter and still teaching her as a mother should.

I first teach her that it’s all about the softened butter. Not melted, and not cold, perfectly soft where you see your fingerprint and indentation in the butter. Then whip it, forcing air into the sugar and butter for a fluffier cookie. I also tell her that there’s nothing more important in baking than first following the recipe, and second measuring correctly. Wet ingredients in a glass measuring cup, dry in regular cups. Flour MUST be measured just like in our tutorial.

And in the end, the fork comes out for the indentations just like Mom taught me. She’s a good mom like that.

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

There’s just one unexpected ingredient in these cookies, but I swear to you it will make all the difference! The rest of the ingredients will be in your pantry already. Here is what you’ll need:

• Butter: I prefer to use unsalted butter. Make sure it

Healthy Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Cookies

Healthy breakfast ideas are always something I’m looking for! These healthy apple cinnamon breakfast cookies are a family favorite and so perfect for grabbing as you walk out the door.

They are high in fiber, low in fat and sugar and full of flavor! And who doesn’t want cookies for breakfast?!

I’ve had this breakfast cookie recipe in a photocopied hand-out for years. When my husband & I started riding the bus at 6:15 every morning, I started looking for fast and healthy breakfast recipes. I pulled this one out, made some changes to lower the fat and raise the fiber and this is what I got. In addition to a healthier recipe, the cookies turned out to be more moist and tastier than ever!

I feel like there are a few breakfasts that I love, but I know aren’t good for me (hello french toast and killer breakfast sandwiches!) and they won’t keep me satisfied in a healthy way which means I’ll be making poor decisions all day. I try to choose better breakfast choices all week, like these breakfast cookies and then save pancakes for Saturday morning. One day a week doesn’t kill ya, especially if you’re still smart about what you eat for your other meals.

What Do I Need to Make Healthy Breakfast Cookies?

These cookies are packed with healthy ingredients and loads of flavor. Here is what you will need:

• Whole Wheat Flour
• Oat Flour
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Cinnamon
• Cardamom
• Apple Butter
• Brown Sugar
• Egg
• Vanilla Extract
• Apple
• Oatmeal
• Pepitas
• Raisins

The measurements for each ingredients can be found in the recipe card below.

How to Make Healthy Breakfast Cookies

These breakfast cookies come together quickly, and if you limit yourself to two a day (so hard!), then you’ve got breakfast for the whole week! Here are the basic steps:

1. Preheat the oven.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
3. Add all the wet ingredients.
4. Fold in all the chunky ingredients.
5. Spoon the dough onto a greased baking sheet (or line it with parchment paper) and smash them down a little.
6. Bake and cool.

More detailed instructions can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

Is Whole Wheat Flour Better Than All Purpose?

Whole wheat flour is rich in vitamins B-1, B-3, and B-5, and contains riboflavin and folate.

Whole wheat flour also has more iron, calcium, protein, and other nutrients than white flour.

Is Apple Butter the Same as Applesauce?

Applesauce is lighter and has more water content than apple butter.

Green Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies [+Video]

Huge, soft green mint chocolate chip cookies are just what you need for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a holiday that I don’t do much for, much to my children’s chagrin, but these cookies are totally in my wheelhouse!

I failed HARD last St Patrick’s day. You guys, my kids are older, who knew it would break some hearts to not make something green for St Paddy’s? I bought Lucky Charms that turn the milk green, I thought that would be so fun since I never buy marshmallow cereal. (No judgments if you do, I just hate that as they are putting away cereal bowls they are already asking for a snack because it didn’t fill them up.)

I mean, ok I do have a little guy, but he wasn’t even the upset one, it was the 10 going on 11 year old that was so sad. Yeash. I busted out some green cookies, borrowed a gold spray painted box from the neighbor and Cade bought all sorts of green candies and even pop to stuff inside.

I’ll probably never go to that extent again, it’s just not my holiday, but the winner of the night did in fact end up being these cookies and I just had to share them with all of you this year.

What Ingredients Do I Need for Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies?

Imagine a fairly standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, with a few extra ingredients to make them mi