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CARAMEL M&M’S KICKING BROWN SUGAR COOKIE

Designed to be eaten on laps sitting outside, these cookies will have you covered in delicious crumbs and you won't care a bit.
Prep Time2 hours 20 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time2 hours 30 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: M&M brown sugar cookies, brown sugar cookies
Servings: 2 1/2 doz
Calories: 250kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 ½ tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ Cup unsalted sweet cream butter melted.
  • 1 Cup Brown Sugar packed (get dark brown if you can, but lite brown works too)
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 Cup of Caramel M&M’s.
  • ½ cup granulated sugar

Instructions

  • Mix together the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, cornstarch, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl ( I put in the bowl of my stand mixer and beat it around a few times).
  • In a separate bowl, mix the melted butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, almond and cayenne and whisk well until well mixed.
  • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well (again, if you have a stand mixer, this is the way to go on this). Mix for about 1 minute. The dough will be very soft and wettish.
  • Mix the Caramel M&M’s in by hand and cover with plastic wrap.
  • Place in the fridge for 2 hours.
  • After 2 hours, remove from the fridge and preheat the oven to 325 and prepare 3 baking sheets with parchment paper or with a silpat mat.
  • Pour the sugar into a bowl
  • Using a small scoop (approx. 2 tbs size), scoop out dough (make sure each scoop has an M&M or two) and then roll in your hands to a ball shape then roll in the sugar to coat and place on cookie sheet spaced evenly on the silpat/parchment paper.
  • Only put 12 on a baking sheet.
  • Bake on the center wrack in the oven for 8 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and using the back of a wooden spoon, smash the cookie (at this point the cookie will not seem done at all and will make a crackling sounds when you smoosh it).
  • Place the cookies back in the oven for 2 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and place out of the way to cool for at least 10 minutes. You won’t think the cookies are done - but they are. Then remove to a baking cooling rack to finish cooling.
  • If you used parchment paper, remove the parchment paper and throw it away - and that part of your clean up is done! Try not to eat all of the cookies in one sitting. Makes about 2 ½ dozen cookies.

Notes

You can always substitute other candies for the M&M's. 

Nutrition

Calories: 250kcal