Description
Chocolate M&M Valentine’s Day Cookies combine rich chocolate flavor with colorful candy pieces for a festive treat. Sweet chocolate dough loaded with red and pink M&Ms makes celebration desserts perfect for romantic moments, delighting guests who crave classic homemade comfort.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 ¼ cups (200 g) Valentines Day M&Ms
- 1 cup (175 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup (230 g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup (220 g) packed brown sugar
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups (280 g) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (40 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
- Creaming: Utilize an electric mixer to whip softened butter and sugars until a light, fluffy consistency emerges with delicate peaks.
- Egg Integration: Blend eggs individually into the mixture, then incorporate vanilla extract, ensuring complete amalgamation.
- Dry Ingredient Preparation: Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together to create a uniform dark powder blend.
- Dough Formation: Gently fold dry ingredients into wet mixture, maintaining a smooth chocolate dough without overmixing.
- Mix-in Technique: Carefully distribute chocolate chips and most M&Ms throughout the dough, ensuring even dispersion.
- Dough Shaping: Scoop generously sized dough balls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet, leaving substantial spacing between each.
- Decorative Topping: Artfully press remaining M&Ms onto dough ball surfaces, creating an attractive visual pattern.
- Chilling Process: Refrigerate dough balls for 30 minutes to solidify structure and minimize spreading during baking.
- Oven Preparation: Preheat oven to 350F, establishing an optimal baking environment.
- Baking Execution: Bake chilled dough balls until edges firm up while centers remain tender and slightly underdone.
- Cooling Protocol: Allow cookies to rest on baking sheet momentarily, then transfer to a cooling rack for complete temperature reduction.
Notes
- Chill Dough Strategically: Refrigerate cookie dough for at least 30 minutes to prevent excessive spreading and maintain thick, sturdy cookie shapes during baking.
- Control Mixing Technique: Blend wet and dry ingredients gently to avoid overmixing, which can create dense, tough cookies instead of soft, tender textures.
- Customize M&M Placement: Reserve some M&Ms to press onto cookie tops after scooping, ensuring vibrant colors and picture-perfect chocolate decorations are visible.
- Temperature Matters: Use room temperature butter and eggs for smoother batter integration and more consistent cookie texture, preventing potential ingredient separation.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12-14 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 23
- Calories: 200
- Sugar: 14 g
- Sodium: 120 mg
- Fat: 10 g
- Saturated Fat: 6 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 28 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg