These Valentine M&M Cookies are the perfect way to say “I love you” and share as a sweet treat for your special someone – or just for yourself. They are soft, chewy, and loaded with M&Ms, and Chocolate Chips. They’re extra festive because they’re rolled in Valentine’s Day sprinkles before baking!
If you love your cookies packed with melty chocolate chips, crunchy M&Ms, and red, pink, and white Valentine sprinkles – then these are the cookies for you!
They are soft, and gooey on the inside, with the perfect crunchy, crispy edges. My favorite combination of cookie texture!
These cookies are BIG with 1/4 cup of cookie dough in each cookie. And loaded with chocolate, because who doesn’t love chocolate for Valentine’s Day?
Why make this Recipe
- Fun and Festive: These cute cookies are perfect for Valentine’s Day parties, gifting, or just celebrating the season of love.
- Easy to Make: Easy ingredients you’ll have on hand, no complicated techniques, and no chilling necessary. Just a classic cookie with a fun twist.
- Perfect Texture: The best soft, and gooey cookie centers, and crispy edges. That’s the perfect cookie texture combo!
Ingredients Needed
This is a quick overview of the ingredients you’ll need for this Valentine M&M Cookie Recipe. Specific measurements and full recipe instructions are in the printable recipe card below.
- Unsalted butter – we cream the butter while it is cold to keep it from softening up as much, and to help keep the cookies thick
- Brown sugar and Granulated sugar – the perfect combination to keep the cookies soft and chewy, with crispy edges
- Eggs – I use large eggs
- Vanilla extract – a little for flavor
- All purpose flour – spoon it into the measuring cup, and level off the top with the back of a butter knife so you don’t end up with too much
- Cornstarch – helps keep the cookies extra soft
- Baking soda and Baking powder – a little of both so the cookies rise nicely, and have a good texture
- Salt – balances out the flavors
- Valentine M&MS – adds a nice pop of color, and extra chocolate
- Chocolate Chips – I love milk chocolate, but add your favorite, semi sweet, dark chocolate, or even white baking chips.
- Valentine Sprinkles – We roll the dough balls into the sprinkles to cover the all over, to make the cookies festive.
How to Make Valentine M&M Cookies?
Step 1: Cream the butter and sugars. Add the cold butter to a large bowl (a stand mixer with a paddle attachment works best) and the brown sugar, and granulated sugar and mix together for a couple of minutes until just combined. Add in the eggs, and vanilla extract and beat until just mixed in.
Step 2: Add in the dry ingredients. Add in the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt to the mixture and mix on low speed until just combined.
Step 3: Mix in the chocolate. Mix in the M&Ms, and chocolate chips and fold into the dough until evenly mixed throughout.
Step 4: Roll cookie dough balls in sprinkles. Scoop the cookie dough into 1/4 cup portions and roll into balls. Add the sprinkles into a small bowl and roll each ball into the sprinkles, pressing the sprinkles into each side. Top the cookie dough balls with extra chocolate chips and M&Ms. Place the cookie balls onto a lined cookie sheet, only 6 per sheet
Step 5: Bake the cookies. Bake the cookies until the sides are lightly golden and the tops are just set. We don’t want to over bake them, so remove them from the oven when just barely set. Let the cookies rest on the cookie sheet for about 10 minutes because they will keep cooking there. Transfer to a cooling rack and cool as needed, or enjoy warm and gooey cookies right away.
Tips and Tricks:
- Thick Cookies: We have a few tips to keep our cookies extra thick here, using a higher oven temperature helps set the cookie dough faster, so they don’t spread as much. We also use cold butter, and add lots of flour to keep these tall and thick.
- Extra Pretty Cookies: Add 3-4 extra M&Ms and Chocolate Chips on top of each cookie dough ball before baking. You can also add them right when the cookies come out of the oven to make your cookies extra pretty and festive.
- Don’t Overbake – The cookies may look slightly underdone in the centers when removed from the oven, but they’ll keep cooking on the pan out of the oven, and will firm up as they cool.
Storage Instructions
Store any leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 or 5 days.
You can also freeze the baked cookies by flash freezing them on a cookie sheet for 1 hour, then transfer them to a freezer bag and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw the cookies at room temperature until soft to enjoy again.
These Valentine cookies are so delicious and so fun. They’re great for impressing, or just when you want to treat yourself! So festive, fun, and bound to win the hearts, and bellies, of anyone you share them with!
More Valentine Treats:
- Pink Chocolate Covered Rice Krispie Treats
- Valentine Pretzels
- Valentine’s Day Popcorn Balls
- Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Strawberry Puppy Chow
- Valentine Bark
- Strawberry Fudge Recipe
- Red Velvet Cake Balls
If you make this Valentine Sprinkle M&M Cookie Recipe please leave a comment and 🌟 rating letting me know what you think! If you post the photo on Instagram, please tag me – I’d love to see what you’re making!
Valentine Sprinkle M&M cookies
Ingredients
Valentine Sprinkle M&M Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter (cold)
- 1 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 TBS cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1.5 cups red, white, and pink M&Ms (plus a few extra to add to the top)
- 1 cup chocolate chips (plus a few extra to add to the top)
- 1/2 cup Valentine sprinkles (use more as needed)
Equipment
- Baking Sheets
- Silicone mats
Instructions
Valentine Sprinkle M&M Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with silicone mat or parchment paper, and set aside.
- Cut cold utter into slices, and add it into a stand mixer and beat until smooth (a stand mixer with paddle attachment is preferred but not necessary). Add brown and white sugar, beat until smooth; just a minute or two. 1 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
- Add the eggs, and vanilla extract and beat until just mixed in. 2 large eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Add the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt to the mixture and mix on low speed until just combined. 3 cups all purpose flour, 1 TBS cornstarch, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt
- Add M&Ms and milk chocolate chips; and fold into the dough until mixed evenly throughout. 1.5 cups red, white, and pink M&Ms, 1 cup chocolate chips
- Using an large spoon or 1/4 cup cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough. Roll into a ball.
- Roll the cookie dough in Valentine sprinkles and sprinkle additional chocolate chips, and M&ms on the dough. 1/2 cup Valentine sprinkles
- Set on prepared cookie sheet.
- Continue scooping cookies and rolling in Valentine sprinkles, placing 6 cookies per cookie sheet.
- Bake in the preheated about 8 to 12 minutes, until the sides are lightly golden, and the tops are just set.
- Remove the pan from the oven and cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes. They will keep cooking on the pan. Don't remove them early or the cookies will break.
- Remove to cooling rack for additional cooling as needed.
Nutrition
These Valentine M&M Cookies were first posted on February 10, 2021. The photos and blog text were updated for clarity on January 13, 2025.
Simone Johnson says
Fabulous! Not overly sweet and super delicious. My grown grandchildren and husband loved them. This recipe is a keeper.
Ellen says
So glad you found a keeper!
Natalie says
*Cute and yummy!
This recipe looked cute so I made it for my 1st grader’s valentine’s day party, but the amount of sugar seemed a little horrifying. I ended up straying from the recipe just slightly; I added a splash of vanilla (no vanilla??), went just a little easy on the brown sugar, and used a cup each of M&Ms and chocolate chips, instead of a cup and a half. Also I couldn’t find any normal valentine M&Ms anywhere, so I had to use the fudge brownie ones, but they actually were great. I wondered if the batter needed more flour, but left it as written; I didn’t make them an entire 1/4 cup big for the balls, but maybe close. At 8 minutes they weren’t done, but after 4 more they were perfectly golden (and 12 is normal for chocolate chip cookies anyway!). In spite of my concern about the flour, they were great; just the right amount of soft and gooey, but beautifully set up. (Oh, and I had rolled them just lightly in sprinkles, not as much as suggested above.) It didn’t seem like I could fit 3 of the M&Ms on each top so I did 2, but they spread out so much that I could have, and it would have been cuter if I had done 3 as written. Also the M&Ms cracked a bit when I mixed them in, and some more when baking, but that was probably mostly because the fudge brownies ones are larger & maybe softer. They came out very cute, and very yummy!
Aimee says
I’m glad you made them work for you!