M&M Cookie Bars
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4.7
M&M Cookie Bars
Description
The dough is made by creaming butter with granulated and brown sugars, then incorporating eggs, vanilla, and dry ingredients like flour, baking powder, and baking soda. M&M candies and mini chocolate chips are folded in for texture and bursts of sweetness. Pressing the dough into a lined pan ensures an even thickness for consistent baking.
Baking at 350°F for 22-35 minutes produces bars with a clean toothpick test indicating doneness. Once cooled, bars are removed from the pan using parchment paper, making cutting clean and easy. The result is a colorful, chewy cookie bar with chocolate and candy contrasts.
This recipe allows for variations such as adding nuts or swapping chips to customize flavor and texture. Bars can be prepared ahead of time and frozen for convenient future snacking. The cookie dough itself can also be refrigerated or frozen before baking.
Make-ahead and freezing instructions support flexibility for meal planning or gatherings, keeping the bars fresh and ready to enjoy.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 heaping cup M&M candies
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a 9 x13 baking pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.
- Add butter, sugar and brown sugar to a large mixing bowl or stand mixer and beat well until creamed together. Add egg and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Gradually mix in the flour and mix until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and m&m’s. Press dough into an even layer in prepared pan.
- Bake for 22-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from pan and let cool completely. Pull on side of parchment paper to remove bars from the pan and cut into squares.
Notes
- Cookie dough can be made 2-3 days ahead and stored in the refrigerator.
- Baked bars freeze well for up to 3 months; freeze cooled bars cut into squares.
- Cookie dough also freezes for up to 3 months before baking.
- Variations include adding chopped nuts such as walnuts or pecans.
- Feel free to substitute chocolate chips with alternatives like peanut butter or white chocolate chips.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 20Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 251 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 251kcal | 13% |
| Carbohydrates | 36g | 12% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 11g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat | 7g | 35% |
| Cholesterol | 41mg | 14% |
| Sodium | 222mg | 9% |
| Potassium | 59mg | 1% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 21g | 42% |
| Vitamin A | 317IU | 6% |
| Calcium | 29mg | 3% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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