Christmas M&M Cookie Bars

These Christmas M&M Cookie Bars sprinkled with red and green are easy and add a pop of color and flavor to your holiday treats! Christmas is the time for fun and festive sweets!  

M&Ms are my favorite addition to any type of treat.  Regardless of the holiday, they have so many fun colors and flavors, it’s easy to add something extra and get an impressive result.  These Christmas treats turn out so soft, and sweet…they are scrumptious!  

Even better, these Christmas cookie bars are SO easy.  All you have to do is mix up the dough, and press it in the pan to bake it.  No dropping individual cookies on the baking sheet, no sitting around for 10 minutes for them to bake and then cool and then putting in another batch.  It’s one and done!  I love these because they look impressive, but take minimal effort.  

Ingredients for Christmas M&Ms Cookie Bars

• Butter
• Sugar
• Brown Sugar
• Eggs
• Vanilla Extract
• All Purpose Flour
• Baking Soda
• Salt
• Christmas M&Ms
• Chocolate Chips

How to Make Christmas M&M Cookie Bars 

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
2. In your stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, and brown sugar until nice and fluffy.  Add the eggs and vanilla and continue to mix well at medium speed.
3. Lower the speed, and add the flour, salt, and baking soda.  The batter will be very thick, like cookie dough.
4. Add 1 1/2 cups of M&Ms and the chocolate chips.  Mix them in slightly.
5. Spoon the cookie dough into the prepared pan.  To spread it, I sprayed wax paper with cooking spray, and used that to push it around the pan and spread it out.
6. Top with additional M&Ms.  Bake at 350 for for 35-40 minutes. Once they have cooled completely, cut and serve.

Will you be adding these to your Christmas baking list?  I hope so!  

Why These are My Favorite Christmas Treat

Classroom Christmas parties, family get togethers, dessert for Advent service soup suppers…..the Christmas commitment list goes on and on, doesn’t it?  I find that when I make a dish that turns out to be easy and yummy, it becomes my go to for everything during a season.  That is the case with these Chocolate Chip Christmas Cookie Bars.

The one thing I love about them is they are made from ingredients I already have on hand all the time.  Second, it makes a lot of bars, and they end up looking festive without being time consuming.  You need to put these on your Christmas baking rotation!

Christmas M&M Cookie Bars

Yield: 16 Bars

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

These Christmas M&M Cookie Bars sprinkled with red and green are easy and add a pop of color and flavor to your holiday treats!

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Ingredients

• 2 sticks of butter, softened
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of packed brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoons salt
• 1 bag of Christmas M&Ms
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• Christmas Sprinkles

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and spray a 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray. Set aside.
2. In your stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, and brown sugar until nice and fluffy.  Add the eggs and vanilla and continue to mix well at medium speed.
3. Lower the speed, and add the flour, salt, and baking soda.  The batter will be very thick, like cookie dough.
4. Add 1 1/2 cups of M&Ms and the chocolate chips.  Mix them in slightly.
5. Spoon the cookie dough into the prepared pan.  To spread it, I sprayed wax paper with cooking spray, and used that to push it around the pan and spread it out.
6. Top with additional M&Ms.  Bake at 350 for for 35-40 minutes. Once they have cooled completely, cut and serve.

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