Peanut Butter M&M Cookies

These egg-free Peanut Butter M&M Cookies are made with creamy peanut butter, confectioner's sugar, and other basic ingredients. These cookies require no chilling and are easy to make.

These peanut butter cookies have Valentine's Day M&M's but the colors can be swapped out for other holiday M&M's such as Easter, Halloween, or Christmas candies to match the season.

Ingredients in Peanut Butter M&M Cookies

The ingredients for these homemade peanut butter M&M's cookies are simple and easy to work with. These cookies are egg free and are thick and chewy.

• creamy peanut butter
• all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
• powdered sugar
• baking powder
• baking soda
• vanilla extract
• milk
• M&M's, Valentine's Day, or other holiday M&M's

How to Make Egg-free Peanut Butter Cookies

Preheat the oven and prepare the cookie sheets - Preheat the oven to 350ºF and line the cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Cream the peanut butter and sugar - Cream the creamy peanut butter together with the powdered sugar. It will be thick.

Combine the dry ingredients - In a separate bowl combine the all-purpose flour, baking powder, and baking soda.

Beat in half the milk - Add 2 tablespoons of milk to the peanut butter mixture and add half of the flour mixture. Mix until combined.

Add the remaining ingredients - Repeat with the remaining flour and milk and combine until a soft cookie dough.

Add the candies - Stir in the M&M's.

Scoop the cookie dough - Scoop by one and half tablespoons or use a #40 cookie scoop and place them two inches apart on the cookie sheets. Flatten the cookies out slightly.

Add extra M&M's - Press additional M&M's into the tops of the cookies.

Bake - Bake for 12-13 minutes.

Cool - Remove from the oven and cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Peanut Butter Cookie Variations

These egg-free peanut butter cookies can be made other mixins other than M&M's such as:

• chopped peanuts
• semisweet chocolate chips
• white chocolate chips
• Reese's Pieces

These cookies can also be made without any add-ins and made just like classic peanut butter cookies with the classic imprint on top of the cookies. To do this, use the tines of a fork to create a crisscross imprint on top of each cookie before baking.

Tips for Making Peanut Butter Cookies

Spoon and level the flour - By scooping the flour directly out of the container or bag it will cause you to use up to 50% more flour than what the recipe actually needs.

To do the spoon and level method, fluff the flour and use a spoon to scoop it into the measuring cup. Using the back of a knife or the handle of the spoon, scrape off the excess flour.

Use the right peanut butter - For this recipe, regular creamy butter is used. Avoid using natural peanut butter because it lacks oil in the container and the oil in regular peanut butter will create a creamier cookie.

Let them sit - These Peanut Butter M&M Cookies will be very soft when they come out of the oven. Let them sit for 10 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool. Touching them when they are hot out of the oven will cause them to crumble and fall apart. They need time to cool.

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