Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Sugar Cookie Jewels

One of Gavin's favorite cookies is a Sugar Cookie with M&M's on it.  Not sure if he likes the sugar cookie but he loves the challenge of eating all the M&M's stuck in the top.


Ingredients
3/4 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon backing soda
3/4 cup M&M's
Granulated sugar

Directions 
Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy;  add egg and vanilla
Combine flour and baking soda;  add to creamed mixture just until blended
Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place on greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Sprinkle each cookie with small amount of sugar
Press 5-6 M&M's into top of cookie. Close together is OK they will spread with the cookie.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until edges are light golden; let col 1 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

Makes about 2 dozen cookies.



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