Bakery style M&M cookies are as bright and cheerful as they are delicious. They pack a punch of chocolate flavor and easily rival any from a local bakery!
In a medium bowl, cream butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric hand mixer or stand mixer. Beat in eggs.
In a separate bowl whisk flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt together.
Combine flour mixture with wet ingredients.
Scoop cookies, using a medium cookie scoop, and place them on baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Completely cover each cookie dough ball with M&Ms. No need to cover the bottom of each dough ball, just the top and sides. You can do this by hand or press the cookie dough ball into a bowl of M&M candies.
Bake for 12-14 minutes. Let cookies stand on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
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Notes
I like using a 50/50 combination of butter and shortening in my sugar cookie recipes because I think it gives them the best texture, but you can use all butter if you’d like. I always use salted butter, but you can use unsalted butter if you'd like.
Store cookies in an air-tight container. You can also store these cookies in the freezer, but the M&Ms may bleed a bit into the cookie when thawed.