M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

Megan Smith Active Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Servings: Makes about three dozen cookies This chocolate chip cookie recipe is my grandma’s, and I’ve grown up with her making them every time we visited her house. It was the first recipe my dad taught me to make, and I make these cookies at least once every time I go back home to visit my family. These are pretty thin but chewy cookies, and I often bake mine so that the edges are just slightly golden brown but the inside is still extremely soft. (That’s my favorite way to eat them!) They also make great crispy cookies if you bake them longer.

Ingredients

1 cup brown sugar ½ cup white sugar 1 cup Crisco or softened butter 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract 2 eggs 2 ¼ cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup chocolate chips (or more/ less, depending on your taste) Mini or regular-size M&Ms

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F 2. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer or a large spoon to cream together the sugars and shortening/butter until smooth 3. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix to combine 4. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt until no dry spots of flour remain 5. Add chocolate chips and mix 6. Form into tablespoon-sized balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet 7. Decorate the top of each cookie with M&Ms. I often do three per cookie 8. Bake in preheated oven for 7-9 minutes or until the edges of the cookies begin to turn golden brown 9. Remove from oven and allow to cool for a minute or two, then transfer to a wire rack to cool further or serve warm