Peanut Butter M&Ms Cookie Recipe (2024)

Soft, thick, and chewy m&m cookie recipe with salty peanut butter makes the best lunchbox treats of childhood (and adulthood!). This recipe is a classic that not only tastes amazing but it freezes well, too. Peanut butter free option in the recipe, since some schools don't allow peanut butter.

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🧾 Ingredients

There are two lists here. One for the peanut butter m&m cookie recipe and the other for plain m&m cookies because I know that more and more schools are outlawing peanut butter due to allergies.

Honestly, the recipes are SO similar it didn't make sense to me to create a whole new post so I'm adding instructions for both.

With peanut butter

• All-purpose flour
• Kosher salt
• Baking soda
• Butter
• Creamy peanut butter
• Sugar
• Brown sugar
• Vanilla
• Large eggs
• m&ms Candies- I like to get these in holiday colors; red and green for Christmas, pink and red for Valentine's Day, red white and blue for summer, and so on.
• Reese's Pieces - optional but I like to use some of these in place of some of the m&ms.
• Chopped peanuts - optional but I like the crunch they give.

Without peanut butter

• All-purpose flour
• Kosher salt
• Baking soda
• Butter
• Sugar
• Brown sugar
• Vanilla
• Large eggs
• m&ms Candies

💭 Things to know

I made the cookies with the peanut butter AND the Reese's AND the m&ms. Oh-MMMMM-GEEEEE these are so good, especially if you like that classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter. ::::Raises hand:::::

• Butter should be room temperature BUT make sure it is still cool to the touch. When butter is too soft your cookies will spread too much.
• I usually dust the sheet with flour after I grease it. This keeps the cookies from sticking and it helps keep them from spreading. You just need to make sure you don't use too much flour and you shake the excess of the sheet.
• Or you can use parchment or silpat.
• If you have time put the cookie sheet with the dough balls on it in the freezer for 5 minutes or so before baking.
• They'll be prettier if you save out a few of the candies to press (GENTLY) into the tops of the cookies before baking.
• Don't overbake! The trick is to bake them enough that they are not raw in the middle but they are not quite done either. They will cook a little as they cool. It may take some practice but pretty soon you will be able to figure out when to take them out by the way they look.
• Let them sit on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes or so after baking so they don't fall apart.
• Freeze the raw cookie dough balls on the cookie sheet then put into freezer containers. You can then just bake a few as needed for fresh cookies whenever.

👩‍🍳 FAQs

Here are the questions I am most frequently asked about this recipe.

Here are some more of my favorites here on Restless Chipotle. One of the things I like to do is to make several kinds of dough and freeze it shaped but unbaked... then I can have a mixture of fresh cookies whenever I want.

• Perfect rolled sugar cookies for any occasion. No spreading, soft with crispy edges, freeze well - and SO easy to make!
• Old fashioned molasses crinkles like the ones you used to sneak out of the cookie jar at Grandma's!
• Chewy chocolate chip cookies with pecans are the classic recipe everyone love. Chewy, crispy, and gooey from the oven.
• Peanut butter Rolo cookies are stuffed with gooey, melty Rolo candies!

📞 The last word

Grab a glass of milk - you're about an hour away from a trip to irresistible. I've included both versions of the cookie - one with peanut butter and one without.

We love both!

If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need. Don't forget that you can click on "add to collection" to save it to your own, private recipe box!

If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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