M&M’s® Honey Nut Cookies
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M&M’s® Honey Nut Cookies taste like a big ole hug. They are warm from the fresh honey and the delicious flavor of the M&M’s® Honey Nut candy gives these cookies a sweet nutty flavor.
I’ve been a M&M’s® Peanut candy fanatic for as long as I can remember. I just love deconstructing these little candies from the crunchy shell to the chocolate and then to the peanut in the center. When John and I travel, we always have a stash of M&M’s® Peanut candy with us. Next time I’ll be taking these M&M’s® Honey Nut Cookies too.
True story! I’m always a little intimidated when we go through customs when entering another country. I never try to smuggle dangerous liquids or firearms into other countries, so you wouldn’t think that I would have a thing to worry about right? Wrong, I usually have my stash of M&M’s® Peanut candy with me, and I’m afraid that they’re going to take them away from me or put me in foreign food jail or something.
When I heard about the new M&M’s® Coffee Nut, M&M’s® Chili Nut and M&M’s® Honey Nut Flavor Vote contest, I was really excited to try them. Maybe just a little too excited? I took off for our closest local Walmart store to pick up my stash before everyone else beat me to it. Well, it’s a good thing that I did because they were quickly being snatched up! It was so easy to find them because they were up front and center, just like they deserve to be. I also picked up everything else on my list too. Walmart is a one-stop shop where I can get everything at once. Love that!
Once I got them home and started tearing into researching each flavor, I knew how amazing cookies would be with the M&M’s® Honey Nut flavor. I wasn’t wrong. I purposely made them a colossal size and used both baking soda and baking powder so my cookies would have a nice soft center but yet still brown and have that delightful little crunch around the edges. Another technique that is important is “whacking”. I put the M&M’s® Honey Nut candy in a reclosable bag and “whacked” them with my rolling pin. If you try processing them in a food processor or blender, they break up to much, and it’s dangerous to try and cut them up with a knife. You want these cookies to proudly show off your candy. Whack away I say!
M&M’s® Honey Nut Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 16 tablespoons butter softened (2 sticks)
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup honey
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup M&M’s® Honey Nut flavored candies coarsely broken (*plus additional pieces)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Whisk together and set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, white sugar and brown sugar together until combined. Add vanilla and eggs, mixing between each addition. Add honey and mix until combined.
- Gradually add dry ingredients to wet ingredients.
- Add M&M’s® Honey Nut flavored candies. Mix until just combined.
- Chill for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Scoop 2 tablespoons of dough out for each cookie. Place on baking sheet 2 inches apart (9 to each baking sheet). *Press additional candies onto the exterior of the cookies if desired.
- Bake approximately 12 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned on the edges, turning sheet halfway through baking. Don’t over bake.
- Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes and then remove them to a cooling rack. (I just slide them from the baking pan using the parchment paper.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional Disclaimer
This recipe was calculated using the exact brands and measurements I used to make this recipe. If you are following a strict diet please note changing anything will cause the nutritional info to change. My calculations are intended as a guide only.
As if these cookies aren’t exciting enough, you can go to the M&M’s® Flavor Vote page on Facebook and vote for your favorite flavor, as well as enter daily for a chance to win 100k! That would buy a whole lotta M&M’s® candy, which you are going to need once you sample these cookies!
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These look delicious, perfect for a sweet fix and they would go well with my morning coffee, great post!
Thank you so much Sara! They definitely were good with a cup of coffee!
Omg these sound soooo yummy! And your photos are making me drool!
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Thank you so much Lauren! You know how nerve wracking that first post can be. I was really happy with these cookies. I hope you have a great evening and appreciate you stopping by!
What delicious looking cookies Julie! They look better than the store-bought ones! I am so going to try these. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Happy Mother’s Day!
Thank you Su! I hope you have an amazing Mother’s Day too!
Honey nut – isn’t that a cereal too? Amazing all of the different flavors these companies keep coming out with like Hersheys kisses or Oreo cookies. Me, I always like the traditional but why not kick your cookies up a notch with a new flavored M&M.
Honey Nut is one of Johns favorite cereal flavor. I would have liked these cookies stuffed with anything or plain. Hope you have a wonderful day Judi!
Me too – a friend makes “monster cookies” and there are all kinds of goodies in them.
The cookies look delish! I never thought to use both baking soda and baking powder in cookies! (client)
Thank you Samantha! I just loved how these cookies came out, and they would be great stuffed with any goodie you liked. Have a wonderful weekend!
I would love these cookies, Julie! I love M & M’s in anything. Such a great idea to put these special flavors into cookies. I would also like to try the coffee ones. I am going to keep my eyes open next time I go to Walmart. I have not seen that display. I’m so glad you gave us a heads up about them!
Thanks Shari! These cookies are pretty yummy and I think they would be great with the coffee nut flavor too. I’ve also seen the M&M’s at Walgreens.
Oh My Gosh! My hubby would absolutely love these! They look absolutely perfect just like cookies should and you have WHAT flavours over there!!! We’re lucky in the UK if we can find anything other than the yellow packet (peanut)! The only other flavours we have are brown (chocolate), and blue (crispy/pretzel?) flavours… unless you stumble across a place which imports US products, then we can get the mint ones and strawberry ones too! I’m sure my hubby would vote for the honey nut ones – is that what you’re voting for? Don’t forget to link up to Fiesta Friday so everyone knows where you’re partying this weekend! Oh and Julie… you wouldn’t believe what I got stopped and questioned about at the airport! :p
I totally missed my FF link! Thank you for pointing that out for me, it’s fixed now. I would love to hear your airport story!! These cookies were really great and could be stuffed with any goodie you can get your hands on. I know we are fortunate that we have so many options when it comes to availability of ingredients. That also makes it a challenge to be active enough so you can eat these cookies! Have a great weekend!
😛 lol… one day I might share my airport story! Poor guys were very puzzled!!! 😀 Anyway – yes, you do seem to be more fortunate with the availability of ingredients and particularly when it comes to dairy free and gluten free foods… oh well, if I can make cookies like this with regular m&m’s they’ll be happy boys in the house! 🙂
I was curious about the new M and M’s Julie. I love that you thought to put them in cookies, they look delicious!
Thank you Jess! I think M&M’s is the only candy that I actually buy and eat. The other isn’t quite as alluring to me. Well that’s a lie, give me a Lindt salted caramel chocolate bar and we will be friends forever!
Wow Julie, These cookies are just fabulous and my daughter would love them- just cant wait to give this a try…yummm
Thank you Chitra! Please let me know what she thinks!
Julie these are fabulous cookies. I will check out there voting page and see if it’s not too late to participate too. Those are huge cookies and look perfect! ❤️
Thank you Sonal! It’s not to late and you can enter every day for $100,000! I’m horrible at remembering to do it. How sad is that. These cookies were really good. I think I would like to try them with the coffee nut version too. I hope you are enjoying your weekend!
Oh my goodness, I LOVE honey nut flavored anything, and of course I love M&Ms (who doesn’t?). This cookie is perfect, I want one (or two) right now! Pinning!
Thank you Meghan! I was really happy with the way they came out. I think the dough would be perfect for stuffing with other ingredients too.
Oh wow Julie – where have I been hiding? I had no idea these were the latest M & M flavors. I’d love to try that chili one. The cookies look delicious, soft inside, with a nice crunchy exterior. I know they would not last long if I make them when the girls visit. I wonder if they would freeze well? Incidentally, I love Walmart too, 🙂
Thank you Loretta! I think the Chili flavor would be mixed with popcorn? These cookies are nice and big and don’t leave you feeling like you got jipped by any means. I sent most of them to John’s office. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend and that you have a marvelous Mother’s Day. ! It’s beautiful here today.
HI Julie,
I just picked some up the day, I love the coffee-nut, but I love coffee anything 🙂
I did like the Honey and Chili both!! I love that you already put them in cookies, I want to mix all of them and put them in cookies and each bite will be a surprise LOL!! Enjoy!!
Thank you Amy! I am a coffee lover and coffee and chocolate is a match made in heaven!! That would be a winner to mix them all together! Thanks for stopping and have a wonderful day!!