Super Easy, Gluten-Free, Dark Chocolate Peanut M&M Cookies

Peanut M&Ms are my favorite guilty pleasure. I’m all about the health food, but the one thing I can’t resist is peanut M&Ms. And the dark chocolate peanut M&Ms, don’t even get me started on how delightful they are. My last meal would definitely include a cereal bowl full of dark chocolate M&Ms.

So, when my friend Gabby got me a ton of Jules Gluten-Free mixes for Christmas, I knew I had to incorporate M&Ms. It was a no-brainer. I worked from the recipe on this box of cookie mix, but altered it a bit.

Ingredients:
1/2 box of Jules Gluten-Free Cookie Mix
4 tbsp of room temperature butter
4 tbsp of room temperature coconut oil
1 egg
Enough M&Ms to fill your heart with joy
Sea Salt for sprinkling

Directions:
Cream together butter and shortening in a mixing bowl. Add in 1/4 of the cookie mix. Beat until light and fluffy. Add egg, then beat until incorporated. Add other 1/4 of mix and beat until there are no lumps. Fold in M&Ms. (I used both dark chocolate peanut M&Ms and dark chocolate regular M&Ms. I beat the peanut M&Ms with a wooden spoon first. It was very satisfying.) Cover dough and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Roll dough into quarter-size balls and put on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Sprinkle with sea salt. Bake in a 350 degree oven for approximately 10 minutes. These cookies aren’t the prettiest, but they sure do taste good.

Dunk those cookies in some coffee! Get wild!

love,
melanie