While visiting family for the holidays, cookies have been a constant theme at my mom’s house. I do my best to limit my sweets consumption most of the year (albeit sometimes unsuccessfully), but when I’m home for the holidays, all bets are off and no cookie is safe from my sweet tooth.
And I'm not only eating these cookies, I'm making them too. While searching around for some holiday cookie inspiration, I was reminded by Sabrina Carpenter that there’s no better cookie than a chocolate chip cookie, no matter what time of year it is. Last year, the Please Please Please songwriter shared a video to TikTok showcasing her Christmas cookies, and it's been making the rounds again now that the holiday baking season is in full swing.
Sabrina’s recipe incorporates the usual suspects of chocolate chip cookie ingredients with an added bonus of holiday-colored M&M’s. They looked so simple and festive that I quickly grabbed my keys and headed off to the grocery store in search of red and green M&M’s so I could recreate Sabrina’s latest holiday hit.
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♬ A Nonsense Christmas - Sabrina CarpenterIngredients For Sabrina Carpenter's Christmas Cookies
Nathan Hutsenpiller
As I mentioned before, this recipe uses all of the standard chocolate chip cookie ingredients, most of which you likely already have in your pantry. You can either follow your own chocolate chip cookie recipe and add M&M’s, or follow along with this one. To get started, you’ll need all-purpose flour, cane sugar, light brown sugar, baking soda, eggs, butter and vanilla extract. (Sabrina’s cute cat is not included in the recipe, but feel free to bake along with your pet.) You’ll also need a baking sheet greased with butter or oil, or lined with parchment paper.
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How to Make Sabrina Carpenter’s Christmas Cookies
Nathan Hutsenpiller
Start by preheating the oven to 350°. Melt one stick of butter in a saucepan over low heat. You’ll want the butter to be fully melted and not hot, so make sure to keep the heat low. Transfer the melted butter to a large mixing bowl and stir in ½ cup of cane sugar and ¼ cup of brown sugar until well combined. Stir in 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and one egg, mixing until incorporated. Now sift in 1 ¾ cup of flour in small batches, followed by ½ teaspoon of baking soda and ½ teaspoon of kosher salt (optional, but not really). Mix until just combined. (The dough should be soft and a bit sticky.)
Next, fold in ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and ½ cup red and green M&M’s. Scoop up roughly 1 ½ tablespoons of dough and roll the dough into a ball. Transfer the dough balls to the prepared baking sheet, leaving 2 inches of space between each cookie. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes or until the cookies are set. They should be puffy and slightly undercooked inside. Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool completely on a wire rack before digging in.
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What I Thought of Sabrina Carpenter's Christmas Cookies
Nathan Hutsenpiller
What makes these cookies so special is the fact that they're a version of what most of us already make at home. Sabrina's recipe serves as an example that celebrities are no different than the rest of us! The cookies were exceptionally soft and perfectly fluffy. Sabrina’s addition of red and green M&M’s turns an otherwise normal chocolate chip cookie into the perfect holiday-themed treat. This recipe doesn't have any special tricks or hard-to-find ingredients. It's simple, classic, reliable and perfect for the holidays.
If you like your chocolate chip cookies on the crispier side, I would recommend leaving them in the oven for the full 10 minutes. Remember that they'll continue to cook while they cool, so you’ll want to pull them out of the oven when they're a little less done than you'd like. I prefer a soft cookie and found that 8 minutes was the perfect sweet spot for my oven.
This recipe makes 20 cookies, but it can easily be doubled or even tripled if you're baking for a crowd. Bust this recipe out on Christmas Eve and it's a guarantee there won’t be any leftovers for Santa to enjoy.
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