Single Serve M&M Cookie (Small Batch)

This Single Serve M&M Cookie recipe is a super small batch cookie recipe that is mixed up in one bowl with a rubber spatula (no mixer needed), loaded with M&M candies, and makes only two large chewy cookies. Perfect to satisfy your cookie craving!

This small batch cookie recipe is the perfect solution for when you're craving a cookie, but you don't have the time to make an entire batch of cookies OR you don't want lots of cookies leftover.

⭐Why I Love It:

• Chewy M&M Cookie - By using an egg yolk and by not over baking the cookies, the insides stay perfectly gooey (without being raw!) and chewy.
• Super Small Batch Recipe - I love that this single serve M&M cookie recipe makes only two large cookies. It lets me can satisfy my cookie craving without having to make an entire batch of cookies. Another favorite small batch cookie recipe is this Single Serve Chocolate Chip Cookie and Single Serve White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie!
• No Mixer Needed - Because it's such a small amount of dough, you can mix it all up by hand using a rubber spatula instead of needing to use an electric or stand mixer.

🥘Ingredients

• Unsalted Butter - Softened to room temperature! As long as your butter is softened, then you can easily mix up the dough by hand. If you use salted butter, just omit the amount of salt by half. When measuring the butter, I prefer to cut from the middle of the stick since the tablespoon markers at the ends of the stick can be off. For a small recipe, it's extra important to be accurate with measurements.
• White Granulated Sugar
• Brown Sugar - When measuring brown sugar, make sure to pack it into the measuring cup. You can use either light brown sugar or dark brown sugar.
• Egg Yolk - Using only the egg yolk helps keep the recipe super small and it also gives the cookies their chewy/fudgy/almost gooey center. If you want to use up the leftover egg white, you can make this Single Serve White Cake or Single Serve Chocolate Cake recipe!
• Vanilla Extract - For flavor!
• All-Purpose Flour - When measuring flour, make sure to use the 'spoon and level' method. This is where you spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level off the top. Instead of dipping the measuring cup directly into the flour bin which can lead to over measuring.
• Baking Soda - This is the leavener for the cookie to help them rise.
• Kosher Salt - I like the Diamond Kosher Salt. A small amount of salt is so important to balance the sweetness in cookies. If you use table salt, then I would cut the amount by half.
• M&M Candies - I love to make this recipe for different holidays by using different colored M&M candies.

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🔪How To Make Single Serve M&M Cookies

This recipe for Single Serve M&M Cookies could not be any easier! Just mix up the dough in one bowl, pop in the fridge while the oven preheats, then bake on one sheet.

💭Recipe Tips

• Softened Butter - In order to mix up the cookie dough, your butter needs to be softened to room temperature. If you're in a pinch you can microwave for just a couple of seconds, but be careful not to melt it!
• Allow to Cool on Baking Sheet - Letting the single serve cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes lets the cookies finish baking on the warm baking sheet so they set up.
• Don't Over Bake - The cookies will finish setting up on the baking sheet so in order to have the gooey (but not raw) insides be sure not to over bake them. The egg yolk helps give the center a gooey/fudgy interior so know that as long as they're set around the edges, golden on the bottom and golden brown/slightly set on top then they are baked 🙂
• Use 'Spoon and Level' Method When Measuring Flour - When measuring flour, make sure to use the 'spoon and level' method. This is where you spoon the flour into the measuring cup and then level off the top. Instead of dipping the measuring cup directly into the flour bin which can lead to over measuring.

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