How do you feel about back-of-the-box recipes? You know, the recipes that come printed on food packaging. Do you ever make any of them? We were devoted users of the Nestlé back-of-the-bag chocolate chip cookie recipe in my house growing up, and as you might remember, my Sharp Cheddar and Broccoli Chowder was adapted from the recipe on a butter box pulled out of my recycling bin. So I’m all for trying these recipes because sometimes they turn out to be great.
A couple of years ago, I pulled out a bag of mini M&M’s to make cookies (don’t you think that mini M&M’s make better cookies than full size? I don’t know why, but they do!) and found a recipe for CHOCOLATE M&M cookies printed on the bag. I gave it a try, and long story short, they instantly earned a spot on my favorite chocolate cookies list. Since you know I love small-batch cookie recipes (have you tried my No-chill Small-batch Chocolate Chip Cookies or Small-batch Buckeye Brownie Cookies?), I adapted that original recipe to make just six cookies. And the great thing about this recipe is you can make it with just a couple tubes of mini M&Ms, which is so good for me because I’m incapable of keeping a bag of M&Ms in my kitchen without eating them by the handful.
These Chocolate Mini M&M Cookies are a little soft, a little chewy, plenty chocolatey, but not so rich you couldn’t get away with eating a second one. Next time you’re standing in the grocery store checkout lane next to the candy bars, you should totally grab a couple tubes of mini M&Ms, come home and make some of these cookies! 🙂
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