Chocolate M&M Cookies (2024)

These M&M chocolate cookies are super fudgy and loaded with chocolate chips and M&Ms. They have a deliciously rich chocolate flavor and almost gooey centers for the perfect cookie texture.

**This post was originally published in March 2017 and updated February 2022 with new photos, a slightly updated recipe and baking tips**

Why You NEED to Make these Chocolate M&M Cookies

If you love rich and fudgy double chocolate cookies – then I urge you to try these chocolate M&M cookies. They’re gooey and chewy with soft centers that are oozing with chocolate chips and M&Ms. I love how the candy coating of the M&Ms offers a slight crunch and gives these cookies the perfect pop of color.

You can easily make them with regular M&Ms or minis. I like to turn this recipe into big, bakery-style cookies – but I’ve also included instructions for more reasonably-sized cookies that are probably a better option if you plan to eat multiple.

Baking Tips & Tricks

• Use softened butter for this recipe – not melted or cold from the fridge.
• I used Dutch processed cocoa for a rich chocolate flavor and a dark color. Natural cocoa powder works too. Your cookies will just be slightly lighter in color.
• Mini M&Ms give you more candies per bite, but feel free to use regular-sized too. You’ll use ½ cup in the batter, plus a few more for dotting on top of each cookie.
• Cookie dough must chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours before forming the cookies into balls, otherwise it will be too sticky and the cookies can spread too thin.

Cookie Sizes

1. To make big, bakery-sized cookies like the ones pictured, form the dough into balls with about 3 tablespoons of dough each. This is typically the amount in a large cookie scoop. You’ll get about 14-15 cookies in total. Then bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 12-14 minutes at 350F.
2. For smaller cookies – more of an afterschool cookie size – form the dough into balls with about 1 to 1.5 tablespoons of dough each. This is typically the amount in a medium cookie scoop, and the dough balls will be a little smaller than a golf ball. They’ll need to bake for about 9-11 minutes in the preheated oven.

You’ll love these cookies because they’re fudgy, chewy and filled with M&Ms and chocolate chips. They’re the perfect chocolate version of chewy – and the soft and almost gooey centers are impossible to resist.

And for more classic, chocolate cookies – then be sure to try:

• Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chocolate Orange Cookies
• Chocolate Cookie Cake
• Single Serving Chocolate Cookie – it’s a giant chocolate cookie for one!