Easter Cookies with M&Ms
These festive Easter Cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with pastel M&M’s. They’re as easy to make as your favorite chocolate chip cookies—no chilling required! Whether baking for a family gathering or just craving a sweet treat, these cookies will brighten up your Easter celebration.
Easter Cookies
There are so many things I love about the Easter season. Easter Eggs, Easter Baskets, Easter desserts and all the pastel colors.
Of course, taking time to bake traditional cookies with the kiddos in your life can also make this season very special, and these Easter M&M Cookies are so easy to make!
This is basically a recipe for chocolate chip cookies with M&M’s added for color and crunch! They’re soft, chewy, delicious and this is a great addition to your collection of cookie recipes.
More Easter and Spring Cookies
If you want to bake cookies for Easter, here are some other Easter treats I have on the blog:
- Decorated Easter Bunny Cookies (with Royal Icing)
- Lemon Blueberry Cookies
- Easter Skillet Cookie Recipe
Why You’ll Love These Easter Cookies
There are so many reasons to love these M&M Easter cookies…
- Soft & Chewy Cookies – Perfectly textured chocolate chip cookie recipe with the added crunch of M&Ms.
- Festive & Colorful Cookies – Pastel M&M’s make them great for Easter celebrations.
- Easy to Make – No chilling required, just mix, scoop, and bake!
- Customizable – Swap chocolate chips for milk or white chocolate.
- Kid-Friendly – Fun to bake with little helpers.
- Perfect for Gatherings – A crowd-pleasing treat for Easter parties and family get-togethers.
Tools Needed
- Large Bowl
- Spoon
- Electric Mixer (Hand Mixer) or Stand Mixer with Paddle Attachment
- 2 tablespoon Cookie Scoop
- Baking Sheet
- Parchment Paper
Ingredients
All of the ingredients for these easy Easter Cookies are probably already in your pantry, except or maybe the M&Ms. But you have to get the pastel M&M’s for these festive cookies – that’s what makes them perfect for Easter!
- Butter, softened
- Brown Sugar
- Granulated Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- All-Purpose Flour
- Cornstarch
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Pastel Easter M&Ms – easily found on the aisle with the Easter candy in your grocery store or big box store.
Find the complete recipe with ingredient measurements in the printable recipe card below.
Substitutions
Chocolate Chips – you can substitute milk chocolate or white chocolate chips in this recipe.
Pastel M&Ms – of course, you can bake these cookies with different colors of M&Ms, but they won’t look like Easter time cookies 🙂 You could also add pastel sprinkles to add more color.
Easter Cookies Without Eggs
This Easter cookies recipe is an eggless chocolate chip cookie recipe, and it works without eggs because of a few key ingredient adjustments:
- Butter & Sugar Creaming – The combination of softened butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar helps create structure and moisture, mimicking the binding effect of eggs.
- Cornstarch – Acts as a binding agent and helps keep the cookies soft and tender. It also prevents them from becoming too crumbly.
- Baking Powder & Baking Soda – These leavening agents provide lift and lightness, ensuring the cookies aren’t too dense.
- Flour & Fat Balance – The ratio of flour to butter maintains the right texture without needing eggs.
These ingredients work together to create a delicious, chewy cookie without the need for eggs!
How to Make Easter Cookies
This Easter cookie recipe requires no fancy decorating or meringue powder – just pantry staples and holiday M&Ms.
- Preheat your oven to 350℉ and line your cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- Cream butter, brown sugar, white sugar, and vanilla together until light and fluffy.
- Then stir in the dry ingredients: flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and baking soda. Be sure to scrape to the bottom of the bowl to incorporate all the dry ingredients.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and M&M’s.
- Then, using your 2 tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop 6 balls of cookie dough balls onto your parchment lined baking sheet
- Place the baking sheets into the preheated oven and bake cookies for 10-12 minutes.
- Once the bottoms start to golden, remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to cool further.
- Repeat steps 5 and 6 until you run out of dough.
- Enjoy the cooled cookies with a tall glass of milk!
Pro Tips
If you want your cookies to look like they came from a bakery, you can press a few M&M’s into the top of the cookie as soon as it comes out of the oven.
Storage Directions
Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature for 4-5 days.
FAQ
Add the full 1 cup of M&M’s to the cookie dough and then add more M&M’s to each cookie as soon as it comes out of the oven to make the cookies look like they have plenty of M&M’s on them. Adding the M&M’s to the top of the cookies before baking will result in the M&M’s cracking on top.
To make the cookies perfectly round, take a glass, or round cookie cutter, that is larger than the cookies and round out the cookies with it as soon as they come out of the oven.
Store leftover M&M chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4-5 days for best results.
You will know these cookies are done baking when they start to golden on the edges and the bottom. It may take 10-12 minutes.
This recipe works beautifully without eggs and still tastes delicious!
More Easter Desserts
Easter Cookies with M&Ms
- Total Time: 27 minutes
- Yield: 26 1x
Description
These festive Easter Cookies are soft, chewy, and loaded with pastel M&M’s. They’re as easy to make as your favorite chocolate chip cookies—no chilling required! Whether baking for a family gathering or just craving a sweet treat, these cookies will brighten up your Easter celebration.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Butter, softened
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 2 tablespoons Cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- 1 cup M&M’s, Pastel Colors
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350℉ and line your baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream together the butter, brown sugar, white sugar, and vanilla.
- Then stir in the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and baking soda.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and M&M’s/
- Then, using your 2 tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop 6 balls of cookie dough onto your parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Once the bottoms start to golden, remove the cookies from the oven and let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to cool further.
- Repeat steps 5 and 6 until you run out of dough, let cool and enjoy!
Notes
Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4-5 days.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 12
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
