Springtime Cookies

Springtime cookies scream color and fun. Try these easy and kid-friendly cookies for a fun treat. Not healthy in the slightest with a stick of butter, brown sugar, and white flour, they are just really tasty old-fashioned peanut butter cookies.

Peanut Butter M&M Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 stick butter, softened
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup M&Ms, crushed lightly

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream together the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy with a hand or stand mixer (I used hand).
• Add the peanut butter butter and mix well.
• Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue to beat until smooth.
• Crush the M&Ms in a ziploc bag with a rolling pin.
• Combine the flour, baking powder and salt together then add to the wet ingredients. Mix in the M&Ms.
• Spoon out small balls of dough onto lined baking sheet (I use Silpats). Bake for 12-15 minutes or until puffy and golden.

These could easily be frozen, which I do with most things I bake if they aren’t for immediate consumption. You could also flatten them out and get a flatter baked cookie. The M&Ms give it a fun bit of chocolate without using chocolate chips.

If you are catching up from the weekend, I wrote on Saturday about why I rooted for Kentucky. Unfortunately, they lost to Connecticut on Saturday night, and UConn plays Butler in Houston tonight. Root with me for Butler! I can still win second place in my bracket if UConn loses. Soooo, go Butler! Their mascot is a bulldog names Blue II. He’s cute.

Also, I ran a 4 mile race on Saturday at Memorial Park in Houston. It was my first race since the half marathon in Dallas four months ago! Read that recap here.

And if you followed on Saturday too, my computer hard drive died, it was only four months old. I am back on my computer with a new hard drive and most of my files moved over. I’m about 90% good as new and will hopefully be able to recover the last four months of photos soon. The lesson here is to back up everything you may want to see again.