Can’t get enough of these cookies? Try my other recipes for Best Easy Sugar Cookies, Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Super Soft Peanut Butter Cookies!
More Christmas Cookie Recipes
Super Soft Peanut Butter Cookies Cowboy Cookies White Chocolate Cashew Cookies Frosted Pumpkin Cookies White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
Did you make these Christmas cookies? AMAZING! Please rate the recipe below! So festive – You don’t have to buy a lot of decorations or spend hours icing cookies with these jolly Christmas Cookies. The red and green M&Ms take care of the decorating for you. Simple ingredients – All ingredients in these soft Santa’s Christmas cookies can be found at any old grocery store (or you probably have most of the ingredients in your pantry already). Easy – Mix the wet ingredients, mix the dry, put them together with some chocolate chips and M&Ms and that’s about as hard as this recipe gets!
Dry instant pudding is my secret ingredient for keeping soft cookies soft even when stored at room temperature. Just one small box is all it takes to keep the cookies from hardening up right away. Another way to keep your cookies soft is to stack them high in the container that you’re using to store them. This allows less air to get to each cookie, thus drying it out. I always underbake the cookies and cool on the pan since they will continue cooking on the hot baking sheet after you take them out of the oven. So that means, if you cook them longer than the directions suggest, and then take them out of the oven, they’ll cook even more on the sheet, resulting in a hard cookie. Do you have little (or big) hands stealing cookies and forgetting to put the lid back on or resealing the bag? That will lead to a dry cookie in no time! Make sure to keep that container or bag sealed up. Melt the butter. If your cookies won’t stay soft, try melting the butter and allowing it to cool a bit before adding the other wet ingredients to it can help the cookies stay moist. (Note, this can also make your cookies thinner so be aware of that.)
