Looking to make easy Christmas cookies? Check out this quick and easy recipe that is super delicious and great to make with the kids!
When I’m invited to cookie exchanges, I always have these grand ideas of things that I want to make.
I’m going to make the coolest cookies that are really delicious and look really festive and fun.
It will spend hours making them perfect.
But then time gets away from me, I procrastinate and am left needing 6 dozen cookies on the fly.
So what can I make?
Easy Christmas Cookies
These easy Christmas cookies are a simple solution because they are simple and quick to make with little prep work and minimal clean-up.
Sounds too good to be true, right?
When my kids were young, I loved getting them involved with any recipes I was making.
This easy Christmas cookie recipe is a good one to get even the littlest of the littles involved with because they can help separate the candies by color and unwrap the chocolate kisses.
The hardest part is keeping them from eating all the candy before you finish making the cookies!
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In preparation for this blog post, I hid the candy. Would you believe one of my kids found them an opened the kisses before I had a chance to make these. LOL!
It seriously does not get any easier than this recipe.
And it’s really good to boot!
What I love most about it is you can switch up the candies to whatever you want to use.
I love to use Peanut Butter M&M’s®️ but I’ve seen them made with mint chocolate and peanut M&M’s®️ too.
You can also use white, milk or dark chocolate kisses. But note, if you use white chocolate, it melts a little quicker in the oven so keep an eye on it.
Unwrap each candy.
Separate the candies by color. You can also buy the candies with just the Holiday colors.
Place one chocolate kiss on top of each waffle pretzel on a baking sheet.
Bake for 5 minutes at 200 degrees.
Top with M&M candies as soon as they come out of the oven while the chocolate is still soft and melty.
Allow to cool.
Serve and enjoy!
Easy Christmas Cookies
Equipment
- baking sheet
- aluminum foil
Ingredients
- 60 Waffle Pretzels
- 60 Hershey®️ Kisses (milk chocolate, white chocolate or dark chocolate)
- 60 Green and Red M&M's®️
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200.
- Open Hershey Kisses and set aside.
- If green and red M&M's are not already separated, separate the colors.
- Foil a baking sheet.
- Set waffle pretzels on baking sheet.
- Top each pretzel with a Hershey's Kiss.
- Bake in oven for 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven and top each with one M&M Candy.
- Allow to cool before serving.
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Sue at Blu
My kind of baking! Wow! So easy and quick! I’m gonna keep this handy!
Stacy Ling
Mine too! It’s a great last minute cookie recipe! Thank you!!! xoxo
Renee Barton
I love how simple these are that my kids and I can do on a random Sat morning. AND not much clean up!!
Stacy Ling
They are the best for that Renee! My kids still love making these!
laura
Hi stacy! too funny I have a rough draft of these! I increased my oven temp too! yours look amazing! yum! Glad I took photos before kids got home from college! laura in colorado
Stacy Ling
That is so funny! They are so easy to make – it’s a popular one!
Jayne
Hi Stacy, these Christmas cookies look like fun to make with kids. I love that even the little ones can help out with this recipe!
Stacy Ling
Thanks Jayne! My kids still love to make these and they are much older now. Happy Holidays!
Jennifer Williams
I’ve got to try these! I love peanut butter M & Ms! So cute Stacy ❤️
Stacy Ling
They are my favorite! Next to reeses PB cups of course!
Liberty
I enjoy making— and eating— these, too! Sometimes instead of an M+M, I top it with another pretzel for a pretzel sandwich.
Stacy Ling
I’ve never tried that before – I am totally doing that!!!
Allison O'Dell
Stacy, these are a family favorite of our house too! My daughters were all born in Hershey, PA so the Hershey kisses are sentimental. And then there’s the fact that they just taste so good. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
Stacy Ling
Thanks Allison! They are the best chocolates! xoxo