M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

These pretty M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies are back up on the blog.  Reposting my favorite cookies with some new pictures!  I added a Christmas twist to them so that if anyone needs a fast dessert for this week, here it is!
For the red and green m&m's, I actually bought 2 tubes of the mini m&m's in the Christmas candy aisle at any store.  Then today at Walmart I found that they have a bag in the Christmas baking aisle of these.

what you need:

1/2 cup butter, softened (1 stick)

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 large egg

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup flour

1/4 cup instant vanilla pudding mix 

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

chocolate chips

mini m&m's

(I don't want to tell you how much chocolate chips and m&m's to put in because I put in a lot of both, just eye it and see how much you'd like.  I always use more m&m's than chocolate chips in this recipe.)

1)  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2)  In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until well combined.  Add the egg and vanilla.  When combined, add the flour, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt.  Mix until it forms to dough.  Add in your desired amounts of chocolate chips and M&M's and mix until combined.

3)  Scoop the dough with a medium cookie dough scoop onto a large cookie sheet.  If you don't have a cookie dough scoop, roll the dough into 1 1/2" balls. Bake for 10-12 minutes.  

(make sure you leave the dough like this and don't press the dough down at all) 

Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 5 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.

Makes 2-2 1/2 dozen.