M&Ms Christmas Cookies For Santa
These M&Ms Christmas cookies are easy and super cute, they are the perfect Christmas cookies for Santa. The kids will love helping you in the kitchen making and decorating these.
Why This Recipe Works
- Soft cute cookies
- Simple recipe, basic ingredients
- Easy to decorate, perfect to make with kids.
Ingredients you will need
These soft Christmas cookies are made with basic ingredients, butter, egg, icing sugar, flour, baking powder, vanilla essence, and then of course red and green m&ms to decorate the cookies.
Ingredient Notes and Substitutes
- icing sugar: In some parts of the world this is called confectioners sugar.
- egg: This cookie recipe works well egg-free with 3 Tablepoons of condensed milk as a substitute for the egg
- m&ms You can decorate these cookies with other sweets or chocolate chips.
Step by step instructions
Below are illustrated step-by-step instructions to make my Christmas Cookies with M & Ms, if you prefer just the written instructions then head straight to the printable recipe card below.
Prep: Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.
Step one: In a medium/large mixing bowl cream the softened butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and egg.
Step two: Add the flour and baking powder, combine to form a soft cookie dough, you can either use a beater or wooden spoon for this stage.
Step three: Use a small scoop or 15ml tablespoon to make even portions of dough (you will end up with approximately 50-54 cookies. Roll into balls and put on a lined baking tray/cookie sheet.
Step four: Gently flatten the dough balls, I do this by placing a small piece of baking paper on top and gently pressing down on each cookie with a flat bottomed measuring cup, you can use your hand or a spoon/fork.
Step five: Decorate your cookies with m and ms. (red and green ones if you are going for a Christmas cookie!
Step six: Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 6 minutes, you don't want these cookies to be too golden. The cookies will be soft when you remove them from the oven but they will become more firm as they cool.
Enjoy!
Top Tips
Here is how you can make these m and ms Christmas cookies for Santa perfectly every time!
- These cookies aren't tricky, my one tip is if you are making these with your kids be sure you are doing it at a time when you are in the right headspace, not rushed, and are feeling relaxed.. baking with kids goes much better like this.
- If your kids are younger you can always do the first steps without them and get them involved for decorating!
- Be sure to leave 1 - 2 of these cookies out for Santa on Christmas eve.
FAQs
Once these cookies are completely cool store them in an airtight container for up to five days.
Absolutely this cookie dough freezes really well. Wrap well in cling film, freeze,, and bring out to defrost to room temp on the bench when you want to get your bake on!
Christmas Cookie Recipes for Everyone
Don't get me wrong these cookies are awesome, but they might not be the perfect cookie for absolutely everyone.
- Cookie Cutter: If you want the best recipe to use cookie cutters for, then my simple sugar cookies are the ones for you!
- Healthier Recipe: My low sugar Christmas Cookies or Reindeer Cookies would be the recipes I would check out
- No-Bake: I've got three no-bake cookie balls up my sleeve Reindeer Balls, Coconut Snow Balls, and Cranberry Christmas Bites
Christmas Cookies for Santa
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Ingredients
- 100 g butter
- 100 g icing sugar ½ cup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 egg
- 300 g flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup m&ms
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celsius (160 degrees fan-forced).
- In a medium/large mixing bowl cream the softened butter, icing sugar, vanilla essence and egg.
- Add the flour and baking powder, combine to form a soft cookie dough, you can either use a beater or wooden spoon for this stage.
- Use a small scoop or 15ml tablespoon to make even portions of dough (you will end up with approximately 50-54 cookies. Roll into balls and put on a lined baking tray/cookie sheet.
- Gently flatten the dough balls, I do this by placing a small piece of baking paper on top and gently pressing down on each cookie with a flat bottomed measuring cup, you can use your hand or a spoon/fork.
- Decorate your cookies with m and ms. (red and green ones if you are going for a Christmas cookie!
- Bake for at 180 degrees celsius 6 minutes, you don't want these cookies to be too golden. The cookies will be soft when you remove them from the oven but they will become more firm as they cool.
Notes
- These cookies aren't tricky, my one tip is if you are making these with your kids be sure you are doing it at a time when you are in the right headspace, not rushed, and are feeling relaxed.. baking with kids goes much better like this.
- If your kids are younger you can always do the first steps without them and get them involved for decorating!
- Be sure to leave 1 - 2 of these cookies out for Santa on Christmas eve.
- Once these cookies are completely cool store them in an airtight container for up to five days. You can also freeze the dough to get your bake on at another time.
- icing sugar: In some parts of the world this is called confectioners sugar.
- egg: This cookie recipe works well egg-free with 3 Tablespoons of condensed milk as a substitute for the egg
- m&ms You can decorate these cookies with other sweets or chocolate chips.
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Hi Stacy. Is this recipe low in sugar? And can I use whole wheat flour instead of white flour? Will the cookies come out dry in that case?
Thanks.
Hi
These cookies are lower in sugar than similar recipes in that they have ½ a cup of sugar compared to 1 cup of sugar which is the quantity in most recipes like this. I have not tested this recipe with wholewheat flour.