Giant Rainbow Cookies.
This is how you make gooey, chewy, massive giant rainbow m&m cookies that make everyone in life love your guts.
Lookie here! You don’t even need a mixer. You just mix all the goods with a whisk. Don’t have a whisk? Spoons work too.
Add some super cute rainbow candies… aka mini m&m’s. For these best ever m&m cookies.You could add regular m&m’s. Really… whatever floats your boat.
This is the weird part. Roll your dough into a ball then rip it apart evenly with Hulk Hogan strength.
Bake cookies like this. Laugh because they look funny. Cry because you are ridiculous.
Not even joking. Really bake your cookies like this. It’s the SECRET.
While your cookies are baking, admire the adorable slash colorful slash overflowing bowl of mini m&m’s that you opened two bags of m&m’s for just so you could show all of your invisible internet friends what an m&m bathtub looks like.
After your cookies bake and cool and you inevitably burn the skin off the roof of your mouth because you’re really a child with no patience, flip it over and look at how pretty it’s cookie butt is. Colorful cookie butt.
Stack up some giant rainbow cookies and set them by your overflowing m&m bathtub bowl. Pour a mason jar full of milk so you can photograph your cookies for your invisible internet friends, even though you hate milk and don’t even like to dip cookies in it.
Talk to your cookies because they are so pretty and perfect.
This recipe was sent to me by a reader, Gabrielle (Hi Gabrielle!), and as soon as it hit my inbox I knew I had to make them. I can easily say this is the best cookie I have ever made and that is no exaggeration. Ask Gabrielle… because I professed my love for her immediately like a complete weirdo.
Up until now, I have been using my fat snickerdoodle recipe… which took me hours upon hours to perfect, as the base for newer cookie recipes like my blueberry cookies and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. I can say with almost 100% certainty that this will be the only cookie recipe I use for the time being… because if you can’t tell, I’m infatuated. With a cookie. Haaaalp me. [/donotprint]
Giant Rainbow Cookies - m&m Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 1/2 sticks, 12 tablespoons of salted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup mini m&m’s, or something else that you love
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mix the flour and baking soda in a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, mix the butter and sugars until they are combined (and look like the first picture above). Add the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and stir until mixed. Gradually add flour and mix until a dough forms – it will look crumbly at first, but it will come together. I even used my hands to help at one point. Fold in the m&m’s.
- Divide the dough how you choose (1/4 cup portions for 18 large cookies or 2 tablespoon portions for 36 smaller cookies). Shape each portion into a ball with your hands then pull each ball into two equal pieces. Turn each half so that the rough side of the half (what used to be the inside of the ball) faces upwards and then squish both halves together. Place the dough rough-side up on a baking sheets. If you’re doing large cookies, I’d leave about 2 inches in between each.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes (large cookies) or 8-12 minutes (small cookies) or until the edges are slightly brown. The centers should be soft and puffy. Do not over bake. Let cool completely then dig in!
- Note: to melt the butter I simply microwaved it, and to let it cool I allowed it to sit for about 10 minutes.
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Finally, take one single bite of your cookie since you are the epitome of self control, then neatly pack them up to share with others. Do not eat any more cookies, ever, because you are always satisfied with one bite of dessert.
517 Comments on “Giant Rainbow Cookies.”
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first of all, I love your pictures. Your a great photographer. second of all, girl- I haven’t had chocolate/sweets in almost 2 years and those pictures…they may make me change my ways….the cookies looked delicious!! :)
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So, the problem I have with these cookies is the dough is so freaking amazing I haven’t even made cookies yet! I’m just pigging out on dough! And dinner is in an hour!
I blame you!
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Amazing idea.. and such a fun post!!!
Just made these bad boys with reese’s pieces. I’m going to gain 10 pounds from this recipe…worth it.
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The secret really is the 2 balls on top of each other! I have always ended up with really thin sheets of cookie and this time I got round cookies! Thank you so much :)
I made this recipe with PEANUT M&M’s!!!!!! It added a nice delicious crunch!!!!
Wow I love cookies and this are so so good.
Regards
olga.
PD:My cooking blog is in spanish but I have a Google Translate so you can see the recipes in english.
I made these and I think they need some salt add in, they are almost too sweet without it.
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This is the best cookie dough, here’s my rendition: http://peanutbutterjane.blogspot.com/2011/09/m-cookies.html
I made these, but I made them with regular m&ms, and they turned out wonderful! I just had to adjust the quantity to 3/4 cup from 1 cup for them, but they are delicious. I will be making more of your recipes in the future because I’m sure they’ll be as delicious as this one.
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These are seriously the *best* cookies I have ever made. I totally stumbled across your blog when looking for a recipe on rainbow confetti cupcakes a while ago and boy am I glad I did. Just had to tell you, you are awesome. :)
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Hi! These look so good! I’m interested in halving the recipe though (can’t have so many cookies just laying around or I’ll eat them all myself). When doing so how would I half the egg ingredients required? Should I just put in one whole egg, or just the yolk? Help please! Thanks
I haven’t tried, but I would think 1 whole egg would be fine! Let me know.
Just made these for my boyfriend and his friend and they were gone in less than an hour! Absolutely loved them! I even made them with fall m&m’s :) Thanks for all your great recipes! :) :)
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where in the world did you find bags of mini m&ms?? i can only find the tubes and those are expensive.
the mini ones taste so much better than the regular ones. can’t wait to try these cookies.
How do you measure out your flour? Do you scoop it into your 1c measurement or just stick the 1c into the flour? I made these and had to add quite a few more tablespoons of flour because the dough was too wet. I’m planning on trying many more of your recipes so I would like to know for future reference.
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These are great! First few times I made them they turned out good.
But if you’re thinking about making the dough one night, sticking them in the fridge, and then baking the cookies the next night, don’t. Dough takes forever to soften back up. ;)
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“COOKIE BUTT” She said butt! LMBO! First time I have ever heard of a cookie having a butt, love it. I just bought some CINNAMON M&M’s and can’t wait to try them with this recipe. Thank you for posting, first time at your blog and totally love your recipes and snarkiness!
Hey Jessica! Had to tell you that I just made these, and they are amazing! I’m bringing them to my husband’s work Christmas party tonight, and I know that they are going to be a big hit! Thanks so much! I’ll be blogging about them soon, and I will definitely be linking up your recipe and giving you all the credit! You rock! ;)
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This is my go to cookie base now!
I divided the cookie dough into four portions and added different mix-ins to each one. It was wonderful.
And one of mine actually came out looking like a butt… ;D
I like these cookies, except everytime i make them i always have to add at last 1 cup more flour becauase the dough is too sticky. also when i rip them apart and stack them before baking it doesnt look or taste any different then when i just drop spoonfulls onto the pan
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OH. MY. GOD. So delish. Thanks for the super-awesome recipe and the always entertaining blog!