Easter Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies
Easter Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies are soft, melt-in-your-mouth treats with a creamy, buttery dough filled with colorful Easter M&M's and rolled in confectioners' sugar. I like to add a few more pastel-colored M&M's on top for even more Easter fun!
Servings: 24 cookies
Calories: 231kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick / 113 g) salted butter, softened
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 ½ cups (300 g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups (282 g) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 cup (125 g) confectioners' sugar, divided
- 1 cup (203 g) Easter M&M's milk chocolate candies, pastel blend, plus more for topping (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, use a hand-held mixer to beat the butter, cream cheese, and granulated sugar until smooth and creamy.
- Mix in egg and vanilla until fully combined.
- Add the flour, baking powder, and ½ cup of confectioners' sugar (save the remaining ½ cup for rolling). With the mixer on low, slowly blend the dry ingredients into the wet mixture until just combined.
- Fold in M&M's.
- Using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop, portion out the dough and roll each ball in the reserved confectioners' sugar.
- Place about 6 dough balls on each lined baking sheet. Bake for 13-16 minutes (start checking around 11 minutes ), or until the tops no longer look wet.
- If desired, press a few extra Easter M&M's into the top of each cookie right after baking for an extra festive touch!
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 231kcal