Chewy Spring M&M Oatmeal Cookies

Chewy Spring M&M Oatmeal Cookiesare topped with colorful M&M candies to make the cutest spring dessert! These chewy and easy to make cookies are so delicious!

If you love oatmeal cookies as much as I do, then you’ve got to try my traditionalEasy Oatmeal Cookie Recipeand these classicOld Fashioned Iced Oatmeal Cookies.

This Easy Oatmeal Cookie Recipe Is One Of My Favorites

I love oatmeal cookies with my whole heart. I find myself making just a handful of cookies over and over again and I never tire of them. My favoritechocolate chip cookie recipeis on repeat almost weekly and then there is this super simple recipe for oatmeal cookies. It’s made with a heavy hand of butter and brown sugar, a little flour and oats, and lots of love. This version has M&M’s in it and it’s a favorite for two reason: 1. Chocolate makes everything better. 2. I love using seasonal M&M’s to make cute cookies without any added effort on my part. Seriously though, why are seasonal M&M’s so cute?

These Oatmeal Cookies Have The Perfect Chewy Crispy Balance

I love these oatmeal cookies because they are just theright mix of soft and crisp, and sweet and simple. They always turn out perfectly and they come together in a snap. These are the kind of cookie that you can depend on because they just don’t let you down. They are also a great candidate for after school baking/snacking because a batch makes about 3 dozen cookies which means you’ll have enough to feed your kids plus the friends who filter in the door, but not so many that you’ll be tempted to eat them for breakfast for the next week. But don’t worry if you do decide toeat oatmeal cookies for breakfast, they have whole grains and eggs in them… practically breakfast food in my book.

Kids Love To Help Make This Cookie Recipe

Enjoy these with a cold glass of milk and get your kids in on the sticking-M&M’s-on-the-top-to-look-cute part. That’s always the part my little people love. Be warned though, they seem to eat as many M&M’s as they stick on the cookies – plan on buying double what you need.

How To Make These M&M Oatmeal Cookies

• The fun part about using M&M’s is that you turn a normal cookie into a cute seasonal cookie just by purchasing seasonal M&M’s! Use traditional M&M’s for everydaycookies, Christmas colors for the holidays, fall colors for well, the fall. So simple and pretty!
• I like to have a few extra M&M’s (or save some from the 2 cups called for in the recipe) and press them into the cookie dough balls before baking. You can see more of the candy that way and they look extra cute. My kids love helping with this part.
• You can use old fashioned oats here or the quick cooking oats. Did you know that they are both whole grain oats, but the minute oats are just cut into smaller pieces? You’ll end up with a chewier texture with the old fashioned oats and a more uniform texture with the minute oats. Both are great – use what you have.
• Don’t be tempted to replace the butter in this recipe with something else. It mixes with the brown sugar and the taste is delicious.
• I’m on teambaking mat. Do you have one yet?
• Other cookie recipes that I love and make over and over include thebest chocolate chip cookie recipe ever,Soft Gingerbread Cookies, andHealthy Applesauce Cookies. All good choices.

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This is one of those recipes that you are going to make over and over again, and I can’t wait for you to get started down that path. You can’t beat a tried-and-true cookie recipe and this, my friends, is just that.

Enjoy from my kitchen to yours!