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    Wow them with these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle M&M Cookies

    Published: Aug 4, 2014 · Modified: Sep 1, 2022 by Audrey · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    From book Emeril's There's a Chef in My Soup! Recipes for the Kid in Everyone (affiliate link)

    When the category “Back to School/Children’s favorite” was announced for the August edition of Fill the Cookie Jar, I asked my 6 year old what kind of cookie he wanted me to make. He immediately responded “Ninja Turtle!”. Then he decided that sounded silly and changed to chocolate chip.

    Since his cousins are visiting this week, I asked them what they wanted.

    • what were you thinking of making?
    • anything but oatmeal raisin
    • no peanut butter
    • snickerdoodles
    • chocolate chip
    • yeah, chocolate chip
    • chocolate chip is good

    Six "kids" ranging in age from 6 to 22 and I got somewhat of a consensus. Lucky me. Except plain old chocolate chip seemed a little boring to me.

    What a minute? How about M&M Cookies. (M&M is not a sponsor of this post, but I wouldn't object if they sent a few bags).

    M&M Cookies

    But you know my mind never stops: red, orange, blue, all I'd need is purple and I could do Ninja Turtle cookies. I casually mentioned my thought to my husband and he was off to the party supply store to pick us up a bag of purple.

    Everything was falling into place. I had a vision in my mind of what to do. This was going to be so easy. Kiss... of... death...

    I just freestyled the heads, put the M&Ms and candy eyes on and baked.

    unbaked Ninja Turtle cookies

    Thankfully, I was smart enough to only do one set of four first.

    baked Ninja Turtle cookies - FAIL

    "Uh, those are too big," announced my diplomatic little critic. At least he was kind enough not to notice the eyes melted (they should not be baked!). The recipe is meant to have lots of candies mixed in the dough, without it the dough just oozed. My husband suggested I just do the letters like on their belts.

    So, I added more flour to the dough and rolled them into a ball and smashed them flat.

    Smash the cookie balls flat

    Then I stacked the M&Ms on edge very close together like this.

    unbaked M&M cookies 2

    Success!

    Ninja Turtle Cookies- thatrecipe.com

     

    8/27/2014 UPDATE: I retried these recently to make the masks and it was sweet redemption! I used some red frosting to sitck on the eyes and make the mouth.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cookies

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    M&M Cookies

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    Ingredients
     

    • 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
    • ¾ cups granulated sugar
    • ¾ cups brown sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 1 Large egg
    • 1 cup peanut M&Ms
    • ½ cup plain M&Ms

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
    • In a medium bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt with a whisk (or sift all ingredients).
    • In a large bowl, cream butter and both sugars together on high until fluffy (a few minutes). Add vanilla and egg and mix on medium, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed to incorporate everything.
    • Add dry ingredients and combine on low speed until incorporated. Add M&Ms and mix with a wooden spoon.
    • Using a large cookie scoop or tablespoon drop heaping spoonfulls on a cookie sheet leaving 1 ½ to 2 inches between the cookies. Press to flatten each cookie slightly.
    • Bake until golden brown, about 15-20 minutes.
    • Variation: instead of putting the candies in the cookies, you can increase the flour by another ¼ to ⅓ cup and put the M&Ms on top in different shapes or designs.
      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Cookies

     

    Until next time, happy eating.
    ~Audrey

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    1. Elizabeth

      August 06, 2014 at 8:49 pm

      Love cookies! What a fun idea. Thanks. Shared on google+ 🙂

      Reply
    2. Cynthia

      August 08, 2014 at 8:45 am

      They look so cute! Love the green dough. What if you decorated chocolate and caramel cookies like this? Then you'd have turtle turtle cookies 🙂 Thank you for linking at the In and Out of the Kitchen Link Party. Hope to see you again next week.

      Reply
    3. Nic

      August 10, 2014 at 5:53 pm

      No way, that are so cool!! My kids would love them. Thanks for sharing

      Reply

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