Our 4-Year-Old’s Favorite Cookies Our son, Teo, currently thinks that mini M&Ms are the best candy “on the whole entire planet.” So this fall when I surprised him with a batch of warm chocolate M&M cookies one day after school, he could hardly believe his eyes.Honestly, though, what’s not to love? These cookies bake up perfectly soft and chewy with colorful M&Ms in every bite.The dough comes together quickly with simple pantry staples and whatever M&Ms you love best (we used a mix of mini and regular in the batch shown here).

And if you happen to also have tiny sous chefs at home, you should definitely enlist them to poke the final M&Ms on top — it’s adorable, and delightfully foolproof.I decided to make our cookies “bakery-sized“, to fit the maximum amount of M&Ms into each cookie.But you’re more than welcome to bake these up as standard-sized cookies if you’d prefer.

This recipe is always a winner! Recipe Tips Here are a few simple tips to help your cookies bake up perfectly every time: Use natural cocoa powder.Make sure you’re using natural unsweetened cocoa rather than Dutch-process, which reacts differently with baking soda.Add/skip the espresso powder.

A hint of espresso powder helps enhance the chocolate flavor of these cookies (without making them taste like chocolate).But if you’re serving them to kids or are sensitive to caffeine, you can skip it! Don’t skip the chill.Chilling

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