M&M Cookies with pudding mix are soft, chewy and colorful! This easy recipe takes just minutes to make and creates the best M&M cookies you’ll ever taste.
If you love easy cookie recipes, be sure to try our favorite almond cookies. Or give our 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies a try next!
Why these cookies are best
I know there are thousands of chocolate chip pudding cookies out there for you to try. And while I love chocolate chip cookies of all kinds, sometimes you need a little variety.
Enter: M&Ms Pudding Cookies!
- M&Ms instead of chocolate chips for a delicious twist!
- These cookies are cloud soft while retaining their chewiness.
- No chilling dough required.
- Sprinkles make M&M Cookies look and taste even more fun.
Ingredient Notes
- Unsalted butter – If you want chewy cookies, melted butter is the key.
- Vanilla pudding mix – It makes the cookies soft, and keeps them soft for days after baking!
- Light brown sugar – Combined with butter, it makes the cookies even chewier and imparts a more caramelized flavor into the cookies than using white sugar alone.
- Jimmies Sprinkles – These are the long rectangular sprinkles. Use any color or combination of colors you like.
- M&Ms – I used M&Ms baking bits. You can find them in the aisle near the chocolate chips. Regular M&Ms work too!
Easy Instructions
- Melt the butter. I do this in the microwave or on the stove top.
- Make the dough. Cream the melted butter with the sugars. Then add remaining dough ingredients and combines. Fold in the sprinkles and M&Ms.
- Bake. Drop cookies onto a lined baking sheet. Bake the cookies until the bottoms just begin to look set, about 11 minutes. Let cool completely before eating.
Tips and Tricks
- These cookies spread as they bake. If you want thicker M&M Cookies, chill the dough for an hour before baking.
- Avoid over baking. The cookies will look very soft when they come out of the oven. As they cool they will firm up to the perfect chewy texture!
- Store homemade M&M Cookies in an airtight container. They’ll stay soft and chewy for up to one week at room temperature.
- Try our Christmas M&M Cookies for a fun holiday twist!
- Freeze Cookies. Use my tips on how to freeze cookie dough for later.
Recipe FAQs
You can use regular Mu0026Ms or Mu0026Ms minis in these cookies if you can’t find baking bits.
No, it will not. You need to use the Instant Pudding Mix (the powder) for this pudding cookies recipe.
Yes, you can make the dough ahead of time and keep in the fridge until you’re ready to bake. Tightly covered, the dough can be stored in the fridge for about 2 days.
You can freeze M&Ms Cookies, however the candy coating and sprinkles may bleed color into cookies as they thaw. They will stay good in the freezer for up to 3 months.
More Cookie Recipes
- Maple Iced Oatmeal Cookies: that classic, old fashioned iced oatmeal cookie with a maple flavor!
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies: feel free to add raisins if that’s how you roll!
- Thick, moist, and flavorful describe these delicious Gooey Butter Cookies. Made from scratch, but I’ve got a cake mix option if you’re in a pinch!
- Chewy M&M’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are thick and delicious and perfect when you need a quick dessert. Perfect for holidays and bake sales too!
- Lofthouse Cookies
- Lebkuchen
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M&M Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 cup light brown sugar packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 box Instant Vanilla pudding mix 3.4 ounce
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ cup sprinkles jimmies
- 1 ½ cups M&M’s baking bits or regular
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter with sugars until creamy. Add in pudding mix, eggs and vanilla extract.
- Add flour, baking soda and salt. Fold in sprinkles and M&M’S.
- Drop by large tablespoon onto parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- Bake in a 350°F oven for 11-13 minutes. Do not over bake, cookies may appear soft. Allow to cool and enjoy! Store in airtight container for up to one week.
Notes
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From holidays to birthdays, M&Ms Pudding Cookies make a perfect treat for any occasion!
These cookies were amazing. So chewy and soft!! Loved them.
Oh my goodness we loved these cookies! They were chewy and soft perfection!
We make these all the time and love them! Last night we used mini m & m’s!
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again! It’s really easy to make and it tasted so delicious! Highly recommended!
I just made these yesterday. They.are.scrumptious. I just refrigerated my dough 90 minutes for easy handling, otherwise followed recipe exactly. Thank you!
So happy to hear you enjoyed them!
I think it is a good idea, I have thought of it but not as detailed as you.
These cakes are great
Your thoughts are very good, I like to think
Look delicious, attractive, very perfect.
These cookies look unreal!
If I mix my batter tonight and put in the fridge until tomorrow night to bake can I do that being that there’s instant pudding in them?
How do you get your cookies to be so “flat”..I followed recipe exact and mine are more rounded on top BUT that being said they are delicious! 🙂 I was just curious if you flattened them before baking or anything..
If they puff up too much, I give them a whack with the spatula as soon as I take them out of the oven 🙂
Just found this recipe on Pinterest. As soon as I got home I had to make them. Thankfully I had almost all the ingredients! No M&Ms because I have a nut-allergy kid, so used 2 cups of mini chocolate chips instead. This is a great cookie! Thanks for sharing!
These cookies are fabulous!! I made them last night and followed the recipe with just one small change – I used dark brown sugar in place of light. It gave the cookies a rich, toffee-like flavor. I’ve never used pudding mix in cookies before, and I must say, WOW!!! I’m so amazed at how incredibly delicious it makes the cookies! I will now be adding pudding to all of my cookie reipes! Thank you Aimee for sharing this delightful recipe with everyone! 🙂
I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe! I’m going to give the brown sugar a try!
I love M&M, so these cookies look really good to me. I’m sure they taste as good as they look, so I’m going to try the recipe for sure!
Aimee, these cookies look absolutely unreal! I love how soft the pudding makes them 🙂 Pinning!
I think it is great when a man can iron, cook, and clean. Any time I have been sick, had kids, or had surgery my husband took care of it all. He never had to call his mom or mine to come help. After 48 years of marriage with just the two of us here he still helps. He irons as good as any woman. He likes his shirts starched too. HA!! Our kids didn’t much want their clothes ironed but they were as long as they lived here.
If I knew I was having anything medically done I always cooked and froze so he only had to heat it up. Just don’t like to have to call on people unless it is an emergency.
This cookie dough would freeze well I am sure.
Awww sounds like you got yourself a good man! And HE got himself a good woman 🙂 And yes, the cookie dough freezes great!!!
Haha your daughter sounds like she’s the cutest! Gotta love her innocence! These cookies look so delicious, Aimee! Pudding cookies are one of my favorites, I just love the soft and chewy texture! And when they’re packed with M&Ms, even better!
If only we can keep that innocence longer 🙂
hahaha! That is the best! No judgments on the ironing here, it’s not for everyone! 🙂 I love how cookies are just the perfect thing to follow up such a great conversation 😉 These cookies look awesome and pudding always makes for some of the BEST cookies too!
Sometimes shoving a cookie in your mouth is the only way to stop laughing 🙂
That is such an adorable story. Only a story like that can make the word “adultery” cute!
And I don’t iron, either. Really. That’s not how I want to spend time here on earth.
These cookies look incredible! I love pudding cookies. They are always the best ones!
Oh if I told all the stories about things my kids say, I could fill a book. Of, on the flipside…things I’ve heard myself say, like, “no snakes on the trampoline!” 🙂