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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Here’s the deal…..the reason these cookies are so good is because they start with melted butter. Every out of control baked good starts with melted butter. Fact. End of story. Take this knowledge with you through the rest if your life. I don’t mess with anything that doesn’t start with melted butter.
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I found your blog through yummly — you crack me up! I came to look at the peach tilapia recipe but quickly linked to cookies! YUM – can’t wait to try these.
Can stork margarine be used instead of butter?
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My co-worker just made these for a christmas cookie swap and OMG. They are INCREDIBLE. Best cookies i have ever had. PS Congrats on the baby bean! <3
When you make the oatmeal cookies with this dough, how much oatmeal do you use?
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These are crazy delicious
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I used to make these all the time, but lately the cookies aren’t spreading, what am I doing wrong?
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I don’t know what it is like but look very colorful and beautiful. Kids would love this and I love it too. I may give it a try at home for me and my nieces someday. thanks Jessica merchant for sharing this with us!
You know, I always love M&M. And now it combine with cookies, great! I’ll try this recipe tonight. Hope it will be as good as you. Thank you for sharing!
looks Very colorful but cool. Thanks Jessica for post this rainbow cake cookie recipe! I love it.
Very nice recipe you suggest me. I really like your baby food-Beef recipe. Looking so good and i know its taste will be yummy and delicious. I gonna try this at my home for sure.
I made these for my brother’s engagement party and they all got eaten within the first hour :) People kept asking who brought the cookies, because they were out of this world good! Thank you so much for the recipe, they were even better than expected!
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I just love it! This is so delicious, this made my day!
Wow! I can’t describe how good it came out, this is really delicious.
My son loved these cookies, thanks for this good receipt.
Giant Rainbow Cookies…i just love the name! uuu…sugar rush!
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe. For sure I am going to try this. How many cookies does this recipe make?
This looks absolutely delicious! Thank you with recipe
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I made this for my kids and they were super happy. thank you for this recipe
Rainbow candies in cookies looks just as cherry on top of the cake. This will surely be my next weekend recipe.
Wow! Great post it helps me a lot, I’m impressed