Old-Fashioned M&M Cookies

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Ingredients:

½ cup margarine, softened
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup white sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
2 cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
10 oz. package M&M candies

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Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350°F. 

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Cream the margarine and butter together.  Add the white sugar and brown sugar and mix together until light and fluffy. 

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Mix in the egg and vanilla.

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Stir in the flour, baking soda and salt. 

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Fold in half of the m&m candies (about 2/3 cup).  Reserve the rest of the m&ms to add to the tops of the cookies after baking.

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Roll about 1 teaspoon of dough into balls and place on parchment lined baking sheets.* 

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Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edges of the cookies are light brown. 

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After removing the cookies from the oven, immediately place a few reserved m&m candies on each cookies, pressing gently. 

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Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before removing to finish cooling on a wire rack.

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*For larger or smaller sized cookies, adjust the cooking time.

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Makes about 4 dozen cookies

Stir-in-ideas:
Chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, coconut, any kind of chopped nuts, pretzels or potato chips (broken up).

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