How to Make M&M Cookies:

• In a mixing bowl sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
  2-1/3 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1/4 tsp table salt
• In the bowl of an electric stand mixer with paddle attachment (if available) cream together butter and Sugar until fluffy and creamy; 2 minutes. Add powdered pudding mix and blend again until incorporated. Add eggs and vanilla, and blend again.
  1 cup butter, 2/3 cup granulated sugar, 1 (3.4 oz.) package instant white chocolate pudding mix, 2 large eggs, 2 tsps. vanilla extract
• With mixer set on low speed, gradually add in dry ingredient mixture and mix until combined. Add white chocolate chips and 1/2 cup M&M’s, and mix into the dough. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and chill at least 1 hour.
  1 cup white chocolate chips, 1 cup red/green M&M's, divided
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Scoop dough out with a small ice cream scoop, or a spoon, and roll into balls, about one inch in diameter.
• Place dough balls on parchment paper (or Silpat mat) lined baking sheets, spacing cookies 2 inches apart. Place extra M&M’s and White Chocolate Chips on the top of each dough ball.
• Bake 10-12 minutes (start checking at 8 minutes). Cookies are done when they barely begin to turn a little golden brown on the edges. (Cookies will seem slightly underdone, but they will continue cooking on the trays and form up once they cool. Do not overbake.)
• Remove baked cookies from oven and let them continue cooking on the trays. Place additional white chocolate chips and M&M's on top if desired, and sprinkle with Christmas sprinkles. When the cookies have set, transfer then to a cooling rack.
  favorite holiday sprinkles