Holiday Baking Series #4

Today we will be making M&M cookies. Unfortunately there is no video for this recipe, but it is a very easy recipe with simple steps that even the novice baker can prepare.

 

M&M Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup of soft butter (it is critical that it be soft)
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups gluten free all-purpose flour (I use gluten free panty all purpose flour)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1 tsp xanthum gum
• 12-ounce package of M&Ms (see my secret in the box near the end of the page)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and the sugars until light and fluffy. It is critical that the butter be at room temperature in order to make this step work nicely.

Beat in the egg and the vanilla.
In another bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, salt, and xanthum gum.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix.
STIR in M&Ms
Using teaspoons, drop cookies of about one heaping teaspoon onto your cookie sheets, making them about two inches apart. My cookie sheets need to be greased.
Bake for between 10 and 13 minutes.
Cool on wire cookie racks.