These simple and delicious Vanilla Christmas Cookies make a wonderful homemade gift and are the perfect recipe to make with the kids! Both regular and Thermomix instructions included in the recipe card below.
These Vanilla Christmas Cookies take around 15 minutes to prepare, making them a great option for last minute Christmas events.
Why you will love this recipe:
- Simple Ingredients – you will need pantry and fridge basics to make the cookie dough, then all you need to do is add the M&M’s!
- Freezer friendly – both the dough and cooked biscuits can be frozen.
- Kid friendly – this is a great recipe to make with the kids.
Ingredients
Please note you will find the full ingredient list and recipe methods in the recipe card below.
- Butter – at room temperature.
- Vanilla extract – you can also use vanilla essence.
- Egg – I use 70g eggs for this recipe.
- Caster Sugar
- Plain Flour – also known as all purpose flour.
- Baking Powder
- Red & Green M&M’s – you can find these at your local supermarket or variety store. If you cannot find the ‘Christmas’ packs, you can simply pick the red and green M&M’s out of a family sized pack.
How to Make Vanilla Christmas Cookies:
- Combine the butter and caster sugar until smooth and creamy.
2. Add the remaining ingredients and combine until a dough begins to form.
3. Scoop up the mixture and roll into balls.
4. Place onto a baking tray.
5. Add the M&M’s which will slightly flatten the biscuits.
6. Bake until turning golden on the edges.
Expert Tips:
- You can find packs of ‘Christmas’ M&M’s at your local supermarket.
- When adding the M&M’s gently push down into the dough which will assist in slightly flattening the biscuits.
- To store, place in an airtight container for up to one week.
- Both the uncooked dough and baked biscuits can be frozen for up to one month.
You may also enjoy these recipes:
- Easy Gingerbread Recipe
- Almond Shortbread
- Christmas Shortbread
- Cranberry and White Chocolate Chunk Biscuits
- Vanilla Snap Biscuits
- Sugar Cookies
- Honey Biscuits
- Cornflake Biscuits
Vanilla Christmas Cookies
These easy Vanilla Christmas Cookies take just 15 minutes to prepare and are a great homemade gift or snack for your Christmas celebrations.
Equipment
- 2 x Baking Trays
- Electric Mixer or Thermomix
Ingredients
- 125 grams butter softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup caster sugar 220 grams
- 2 eggs
- 2 & ¼ cups plain flour 335 grams
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 100 grams M&M's red and green
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees celsius (fan-forced) and line two baking trays with baking paper.
- Place the butter, sugar and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer and combine until pale and creamy.
- Beat through the eggs one at a time and combine well between each addition.
- Remove the bowl for the mixer stand and carefully stir through the flour and baking powder.
- Roll tablespoons of mixtures into balls, place on the baking trays making sure you leave enough space in between each cookie as they will spread a little. Flatten the top of the cookie slightly and decorate with the red and green M&M’s. Continue to create cookies until all the mixture has been used.
- Place baking trays in the oven and bake for 10 – 12 minute or until the cookies begin to brown on top. Allow the cookies to cool on the baking trays for 5 minutes before carefully transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Thermomix Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 190 degrees celsius (fan-forced) and line two baking trays with baking paper.
- Place the butter and caster sugar into your Thermomix bowl and mix for 30 seconds on speed 5.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the eggs and vanilla extract and mix for 20 seconds on speed 4 to combine.
- Add the flour and baking powder and mix for 20 seconds on speed 4 or until combined. Stop after 10 seconds to scrape down the sides
- Scoop up tablespoon sized balls of the cookie mixture and place onto your prepared baking trays. Flatten the surface of the biscuits slightly and decorate with red and green M&M’s and place in the oven to bake for 12 – 15 minutes.
- Carefully remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool on the baking tray for 5 minutes before carefully transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- You can find packs of ‘Christmas’ M&M’s at your local supermarket.
- When adding the M&M’s gently push down into the dough which will assist in slightly flattening the biscuits.
- To store, place in an airtight container for up to one week.
- Both the uncooked dough and baked biscuits can be frozen for up to one month.
Nutrition
Serving: 0gCalories: 70kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.1gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 21mgPotassium: 17mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 25IUVitamin C: 0.02mgCalcium: 16mgIron: 0.5mg
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Jade Williams
My daughter is only 3 so this is the first Christmas she has shown interest in baking but we have had a lot of fun (and made a lot of mess!) making shortbread, gingerbread people and rocky road. Yum yum!
Lauren
Sounds like fun!
Lozzie@Messyrainbows
It’s a family tradition to make Choc chip cookies at Christmas time & I’m looking forward to carrying that on with my boys. The best bit is definitely taste testing the cookie dough though 🙂
Lauren
Oh I totally agree!
Samantha Stewart
This is the first year my daughter is old enough to ‘help’ in the kitchen. Today we made gingerbread reindeers and sugar cookies together. I think this will be the start of a new tradition for us!
Alex
I’m sure my 5 yo’s favourite thing to make would be gingerbread but it doesn’t play nicely in the hot Adelaide weather. Ice cream is a very close second and I love making this too. It’s easy for little hands to help with weighing and stirring and watching the mixture turn to ice cream in the icecream maker never loses its thrill.
Neither does the taste testing along the way! 😀
Malinda @mybrownpaperpackages
I love that we can add Christmas mandms to anything and make it christmasy!! These wouldn’t last long in my house 🙂
My girls favourite to make are gingerbread people because I simply line up all the possible decorations and icing pens and let them do whatever they want. We make enough for us to eat and plenty more for them to gift to grandparents who just adore the amount of thought they put into it.
Lauren
I know, how good are they? That sounds lovely, it’s messy but they just love getting involved don’t they?
Shannon
These look so good! Too bad I don’t live in Australia!
Lauren
Thanks Shannon!
Sammie @ The Annoyed Thyroid
Those cookies are so cute! I’ve got quite a Baker’s Secret collection/addiction and it’s taking over the kitchen! I was quite canny this year and bought regular M&Ms, which meant I could use the red and green ones for decorating and taste test the rest!
Lucy @ Bake Play Smile
These are so cute!! I actually have a bucket of Christmas M&Ms in the cupboard still!!
Kerry
Trifle. It’s meant to look like a disaster, you can put just about anything you like in it and no one ever realises just how many ‘taste testing’ little (and big…) fingers have been dipped in it! Plus it’s utterly delicious. Custard! Jelly! Cake! Fruit!
Lauren
Yes!! You can’t go wrong!
Suzanne
Without a doubt ours is gingerbread house and gingerbread men. Theres absolutely zero way to make them look bad and we get to munch on the decorating supplies while making them.
Lauren
Haha, very true!