Beautiful dark chocolate cookies made with Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder, packed full of chocolate chips and topped with colorful Dark Chocolate M&M’s. These Dark Chocolate M&M Cookies are going to be your new favorite cookie!
Welcome to Dark Chocolate Week on my blog! I LOVE dark chocolate so much I am dedicating a week to it. I am sharing this fabulous recipe today, another one tomorrow then a fun dark chocolate round-up. It’s going to be great! And if by chance you don’t love dark chocolate no worries! Pretty much any dark chocolate recipe can easily be substituted with regular chocolate by switching the cocoa powder or chocolate chips etc.
I am seriously so excited to share this recipe with you! Aren’t these cookies so beautiful? Have you ever tried Dark M&M’s before? I got some for Christmas and we were reaching the end of the bag so before they were all gone I decided it was time to make this recipe I had been thinking about and creating in my head. It turned out so perfect!
These cookies are not only beautiful they are absolutely delicious! They are soft and chewy and perfect in every way! I found the most amazing cookie base from one of my favorite bloggers, Sally from Sally’s Baking Addiction. If you haven’t checked out her blog you are seriously missing out. She’s amazing and her recipes are tested to perfection. I used her base from her recipe for Inside Out Cookies but made a few changes in the ingredients and directions.
I used Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder to make the cookies. I decided to use semi-sweet chocolate chips because I thought it’d be pretty to have a contrast in color from the dark cookies but you can use your favorite type of chocolate chips. Then I topped it with the Dark M&M’s.
I made these two cookies for my boys because they love mini M&M’s! Super cute. Next time I think I’ll make these cookies mini size with mini M&M’s. Double cute!
I also made some with just chocolate chips and it was so pretty too!
As you see this recipe is very adaptable to your liking.
One more note about this recipe, the original recipe has you chill the dough for at least 2 hours and up to 36 but my shortcut is to roll the cookie dough into balls, place it on the cookie sheet then place the cookie sheet in the freezer for 10-15 minutes. I made half the dough each way and I actually preferred my way of chilling the dough quickly in the freezer but do as you please!
Enjoy!
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Seriously one of the prettiest cookies I have ever made! These cookies are soft and chewy and have such a pretty dark color. I love the contrast from the dark cookies to the colorfulness of the M&M's. This recipe makes 16 cookies.Dark Chocolate M&M Cookies
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Adapted from Sally’s Baking Addiction (Inside Out Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mmm, Becky. You might just sway me over to the dark side. I’ve never been a huge fan, but these cookies look so absolutely amazing. Also, I love m&ms in cookies, it makes them look so much cuter!
Lol! The dark side. 🙂 Well I made these another time with Dutch cocoa powder and it was still delicious. Not as dark but still pretty dark so you could try that!
Perfect combination – dark chocolate + M&Ms…
I agree! 🙂 They were meant to be.
I’ve never seen cookies quite like these before. So pretty!
Thank you Sarah! 🙂
Whoa these look great! I love the use of dark chocolate! Pinned 🙂 and found this sweetness on the wow me wednesday link party!
Cathy
Thanks for stopping by Cathy!
These look delicious! Pinned and stumbled! 🙂
– Brooke –
Thank you Brooke!
These are AMAZING cookies!!
My nephews would simply looooooooooooove them
Thanks Winnie! They are so fun for kids!
This is my kind of cookie! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Thanks Karly! 😀
I just made these and they are delicious. I didn’t have any chocolate chips so I used only the dark chocolate m&ms. Still wonderful, very rich and tasty.
🙂 thank you
I’m so glad you liked it! Thanks for letting me know. 😀