Holiday Trash Cookies

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: North American

Prep Time: 20

Cook Time: 12

Total Time: 32

Servings: cookies

Calories: 185kcal

Author: Lord Byron's Kitchen

Holiday Trash Cookies are loaded with both milk and white chocolate chips, M&Ms, crushed pretzels, and marshmallow bits too! The cookie dough is prepared with brown sugar, which means these cookies are soft and moist on the inside, but they have a crisp exterior! Make a delightfully tasty gift by packaging these festive cookies up in boxes and tying them with a bright festive ribbon!

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Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, lightly packed
2 large eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 large egg yolk, room temperature
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt (if you use salted butter, do not add the additional salt here)
1/2 cup mini Christmas M&Ms
1/2 cup mini milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup mini white chocolate chips
1/2 cup crushed pretzels
1/2 cup regular sized Christmas M&Ms
1/4 cup marshmallow bits
2 tablespoons sanding sugar

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper and set it aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter and the sugar until well combined.
Add the eggs and vanilla extract. Beat into the butter and sugar mixture.
Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Add it to the wet ingredients and mix until well incorporated.
Next, stir in the mini milk chocolate chips, the mini white chocolate chips, the mini Christmas M&Ms, and the crushed pretzels.
Portion out heaping tablespoons of the cookie dough. Roll into a ball and place onto the prepared baking sheet, leaving two inches of space between each cookie.
With the palm of your hand, flatten the cookie balls to just under half of an inch thick.
Top the cookie with a sprinkling of the sanding sugar.
Bake for 12 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and immediately top each cookie with 4-6 regular sized M&Ms and a few of the marshmallow bits. You will need to gently push them into the hot cookie.
Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to finish cooling.

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