GRAVEYARD CUPS: Halloween

With Halloween coming up, I thought I'd post this fun recipe from M&M's for M&M's Graveyard Cups! Video shows the easy step by step recipe! Delicious and spooky! 

ULTIMATE M&Ms COOKIES: National M&M Day

Today is National M&M Day! Celebrate with Red's Ultimate M&M Cookies or just eat a bunch of M&Ms. 

M&Ms originated in the United States in 1941, and are now sold in as many as 100 countries. They are produced in different colors, some of which have changed over the years. The candy-coated chocolate concept was inspired by a method used to allow soldiers to carry chocolate without having it melt.

Red's Ultimate M&M Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1 12-ounce package M&M® MINIS®

Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy
Beat in egg and vanilla.
In medium bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt; blend into butter/sugar mixture.
Stir in M&M® MINIS® Milk Chocolate Candies.
Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 10 to 13 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and centers are still soft. Do not overbake. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; cool completely on wire racks.
Store in tightly covered container.

MAKES ABOUT 50 COOKIES.

RED'S ULTIMATE M & M's COOKIES: M & M's Day!

Today is National M&M's Day! Celebrate with Red's Ultimate M&M's Cookies or just eat a bunch of M&M's.

Red's Ultimate M&M's Cookies

Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 12-ounce package M&M’S® MINIS® Milk Chocolate Candies
3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional) 

Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy
Beat in egg and vanilla.
In medium bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt; blend into butter/sugar mixture.
Stir in M&M’S® MINIS® Milk Chocolate Candies and nuts, if desired.
Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 10 to 13 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and centers are still soft. Do not overbake. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; cool completely on wire racks.
Store in tightly covered container.

MAKES ABOUT 50 COOKIES.

M&M Chocolate Chip Party Cookies

Today is National M&M Day! So in honor of the day, here's a Retro Ad & Recipe for "Party Cookies"... This ad is from the 50s and was reworked as another ad calling the same cookies "Color Cookies" Why? Not sure, except the second ad included Crisco as the shortening and showed a can of Crisco. I use butter in my cookies, so my own M&M recipe follows. Be sure to scroll down. I add chocolate chips, as well as M&Ms- and you can always add walnuts, too!

M&M CHOCOLATE CHIP PARTY COOKIES

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoons baking soda
12 tablespoons salted butter, melted and cooled
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs at room temperature
2 tsp Madagascar vanilla extract
1 cup M&Ms  (or 1/2 cup M&Ms plus 1/2 cup chocolate chips)

Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
Melt and cool butter. Set aside.
In a bowl, mix flour and baking soda together.
In separate bowl, whisk together butter and sugars. Add egg, egg yolk, vanilla. Mix together.
Slowly add flour and baking soda mixture to bowl until dough forms.
Fold in M&Ms (and chocolate chips if using).
Put dough in fridge for 10 minutes.
Take dough out.
Form cookies into balls or drop by heaping tablespoons on prepared cookie sheet (either silpat or parchment lined). Flatten slightly and/or top with more M&Ms.
Leave space between each cookie.
Bake 9-12 minutes or until golden brown.
Cool cookies on rack.