Art is My Soul: Christmas Cookie Week - M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

Another favourite cookie around our house is chocolate chip cookies - my Mom's chocolate chip cookies to be exact. I wanted to make some for Christmas, but I didn't want to bake ordinary chocolate chip cookies; I wanted them to look festive. I decided that adding Christmas M&Ms would be the answer.

I looked up on-line the best way to bake with M&Ms and one site recommended adding them to the top of cookies when there was about 5 minutes left of baking time and another sites added the M&Ms to the cookie batter. What's a person to do with a dilemma like that! So I did what any sensible person would do and I did both. The ones on top are nice and clean which looks pretty and adding them near the end of the baking time meant that fewer cracked, but it is always nice to bite into a cookie and find an M&M. Definitely a win-win solution.

Ingredients:1 cup margarine1 cup brown sugar1/2 cup white sugar2 eggs2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour1 tsp baking soda1/2 cup sunflower seeds1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips1 cup M&Ms (plus extra M&Ms to put on top part way through baking)
Method:Mix first four ingredients together.Blend in the flour and baking soda.Add the chocolate chips, M&Ms, and sunflower seeds.Drop by teaspoonful onto an ungreased cookie sheet.Bake at 375F for 10-12 minutes.Makes 4 dozen delicious cookies Enjoy!
And speaking of enjoying cookies, have you seen all the amazing treats being baked for Christmas Cookie Week. Have a look at what these bloggers have been baking and prepared to be inspired.