Easter is around the corner can you believe it? Today I’m sharing easy Easter cookies with M&Ms. By the way these are the best M&Ms, they are Key Lime Pie, and these are AMAZING!

Today, I am also hosting a Sweets Hop! We are sharing ideas for your Spring, Easter and Passover dessert table.

As an example, the best part is these recipes are homemade, semihomemade or even store bought. We want to give our reader options. So please take the time to visit everyone to see their inspiration for dessert ideas.

If you are visiting from seeing Juliet from, Make Mine A Spritzer, welcome and here dessert looks delicious.

By the way, these cookies are perfect through the warmer months. These will be great for a graduation party. They are so easy and quick to make. Making double batches is simple to do.

These Easter cookies are simple to make and guess what makes these even better?

Brown butter, yes browning the butter is a game changer for these spring cookies.

Brown butter is simple to make. As a rule, add your butter to a pot and turn the burner on low. The butter will melt slowly, and foam will appear on the top once the butter melt. As this happens watch it carefully and the butter will become amber color in a few moments.

Ingredients and Items Needed to Make These

• Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix
• Preheat oven at 350
• Vanilla instant pudding
• 1 stick melted brown butter
• 1/4 cup flour
• 2 large room temperature eggs
• Large handful lightly chopped Key Lime Pie M&Ms
• Medium size mixing bowl
• wire whisk
• Heavy duty metal spoon
• Parchment paper
• Cookie sheets
• Spatula

Chopping the M&Ms

Because I have made these easy Easter cookies before, chopping these M&Ms can be tricky because they are oval and thick.

For example, using a mini food processor causes the candies to make too much powder. So, I use one of two methods. First, I cut them carefully with a large knife or I use a meat mallet and little tap them one at a time. This may seem like it takes a long time but because a handful is all that’s needed for these easy cookies it goes very quickly.

By the way, if you can’t find these delicious M&Ms you can use good quality white chocolate chips.

These M&Ms can be found at Target, Walmart and Amazon. If you are lucky your supermarket. However, ours is sold out.

Here’s a link in case your food store is out of these candies.

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These candies are truly worth the effort to find because they are excellent. Fair warning the bag will be gone in 10 minutes.

Steps To Make These Fun Sweets

After getting your ingredients together let your eggs come to room temperature.

Next, add your butter to a saucepan and begin to melt on low to medium heat. As the butter melts it will foam on top. This is good because remember we are browning the butter. Believe me this step is worth it for these Easy Easter cookies. Once the butter begins to foam, I carefully tilt the pan after a few moments. I do this to see if the butter is beginning to turn an amber color for my dessert.

It’s particularly important to make sure the butter is amber. Once this happens remove it from the heat to cool slightly. This is important because we don’t want the heat from the butter to scramble the eggs and ruin your cookies.

Meanwhile, while the butter is cooling add the cookie mix, pudding and flour to a bowl and whisk together. Doing this step combines the ingredients and also removes any clumps.

By the way, if you enjoy sweets, this recipe is great all year round. It’s also an easy recipe to make.

Now that your eggs are at room temperature and the butter is cooled add them to the ingredients for your Easter cookies and mix with a heavy-duty metal spoon. Incidentally, I have used a wooden spoon and it doesn’t mix the ingredients well.

Notice the amber color of the brown butter. This is beyond a gamechanger for cookies.

Once the ingredients are beginning to come together add your candies to the cookie mix and combine.

Adding the Batter to The Cookie Sheets

Before adding your easy sweets to the cookie sheets make sure to cover them with parchment paper. Incidentally, I have these parchment paper sheets, and they are the perfect size for cookie sheets. No More tearing and wasting parchment paper when making cookies.

When adding these to my cookie sheets I like using a smaller size cookie scoop. This keeps the size consistent and helps these sweets to bake evenly.

Bake these for 10-12 minutes at 350. When the timer goes off let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for 2 more minutes.

Finally remove them from the cookie sheet and let them cool completely on a cooking rack.

Enjoy these easy Easter cookies with M&Ms for your dessert table. I hope you give these a try because they are veery fast to make and are a delicious dessert! These are a big crowd pleaser too!

Are you hosting Easter or Passover at your home? If you are stay tuned because I will be sharing many quick and simple recipes.

Now please visit Amt from Amy Sadler Designs she is sharing Easy Easter Treats to Make with Kids. How perfect for this hop!

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