EASY M&M’S TWISTER COOKIES

M&M’s Twister Cookies are quite simple to create. Sugar cookies with a simple icing and M&M’s Peanut Butter on top. What could be more delicious than M&M’s Peanut Butter Cookies? They’re also colourful and attractive, and they can be topped with a variety of candy.

Hello my friends and Happy Friday! How is everyone doing? We got back on Sunday from a short trip to Aruba and started the week refreshed, relaxed and with a tan. It was so hard coming back to a cold and rainy New Jersey after a few days in the tropical heaven.

While there is no shortage of activities to do when its sunny outside, on these cold days I find that its harder to find activities that will please my friends and family. BUT I have a great idea, invite them to enjoy a Game Night  and impress them with M&M’s Twister Cookies, a delicious Cheddar Cheese and Olive Bread and 7 Layer Brownies and you will have a house full of friends that will want to spend a rainy evening with you playing Twister game and Game of Life game.

What is you favorite game to play? I am a huge fan of the Twister game, I love how fun it is, the colors and that I actually get to stretch my muscles while playing it, that’s always a bonus.

Hubby on the other hand is a huge Game of Life game fan.

For our night-in I decided to throw a colorful Twister Game themed party. With a bright setting, delicious desserts and a delectable appetizer that will put anyone in a good mood and in game mode.

You can easily recreate this Twister Game party setting for your next get together, what I like about this theme is that most polka dot items will make a great choice. I have included:

• Polka Dot Tablecloth
• Polka Dot Paper Cups
• Polka Dot Paper Plates
• Polka Dot Ballons
• Polka Dot Napkins
• Polka Dot Garland
• Homemade Easy M&M’s® Twister Cookies
• Homemade Easy M&M’s® 7 Layer Brownies
• Homemade Twister Cheese Bread

The M&M’s® Twister Cookies are incredibly easy to make, these are sugar cookies topped with a simple icing and M&M’s® Peanut Butter. What can be better than cookies topped with M&M’s® Peanut Butter?! Here is a step by step tutorial on how to make them:

You can definitely prepare the bread one day ahead of the Game Night, same thing for the brownies and cookies. But if you are looking for fun activities to do, I totally recommend baking the sugar cookies one or two days in advance, and have your guests decorate them during Game Night. They will have fun creating their own M&M’s® Twister Cookies in the color combo that they want, all you have to do is just mix some icing and provide them with bowls of M&M’s®. I did this once, and it was a huge success, we played games while the icing settled and enjoyed the cookies with some tea.

Check the delicious recipes I have created for the perfect Game Night!

EASY M&M’S® TWISTER COOKIES

• Cookies:
• 3¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch of sea salt
• Powdered sugar, for rolling out dough
• Icing:
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
• 3-3.5 tablespoons room temperature water
• pinch of salt
• Garnish:
• M&M;’s® Peanut Butter

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cookies:
2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light in color, about 1 minute. Add the egg, vanilla extract and heavy cream and beat to combine.
4. Put mixer on low speed and gradually add the flour mixture, beat until mixture pulls away from the sides of the bowl. First, add only 3 cups of the flour mixture, and if the mixture is still very soft add the rest of the flour. Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl as needed using a rubber spatula. Divide the dough in half, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
6. Sprinkle your working surface with a little powdered sugar. Remove one wrapped pack of dough from the refrigerator, sprinkle rolling pin with powdered sugar, and roll out dough to ¼-inch thick. Using a stainless steel square cookie cutter, cut into squares and place at least 1-inch apart on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
7. Bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges. Rotate cookie sheet halfway through baking time.
8. Remove from oven and let cookies sit on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
9. The cookies must cool completely before icing.
10. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
11. Icing:
12. In a medium bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, water, corn syrup and salt until combined and without any lumps. If the mixture is too thick (not pourable at all), add ½ tablespoon of water. If the mixture is too thin, add 1 more tablespoon of powdered sugar.
13. Test the icing, drizzle a little on parchment paper, if it holds it shape the icing is done, if it starts to melt on the sides right away, the consistency is too thin.
14. Pour the icing into a squeezable bottle and have fun decorating. If the icing drips down the sides of the cookies, its ok, as you can remove any excess once the icing is settled.
15. Once a cookie is covered in icing, decorate right away with M&M;’s® Peanut Butter before the icing settles.
16. Leave cookies on the counter for 12-24 hours for the icing to settle completely. Once the icing is set the cookies can be packed, gifted and transported with ease.

NOTES Preparation time includes 2 hours of refrigeration.

Whether you’re a fan of M&M’s or not, you’ve got to admit that their Twister cookies are something special. And that’s why we’ve put together this delicious recipe for you! By following the steps carefully, you’ll be able to enjoy these chocolatey treats in no time at all! Let us know if you have any questions or issues while baking them, and we’ll be more than happy to help out! Thank you for reading.

EASY M&M’S® TWISTER COOKIES

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Prep Time 3 hours hrs

Cook Time 9 minutes mins

Total Time 3 hours hrs 9 minutes mins

Ingredients

  

• Cookies:
• 3¾ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• pinch of sea salt
• Powdered sugar for rolling out dough
• Icing:
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
• 3-3.5 tablespoons room temperature water
• pinch of salt
• Garnish:
• M&M;’s® Peanut Butter

Instructions

 

• Cookies:
• In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light in color, about 1 minute. Add the egg, vanilla extract and heavy cream and beat to combine.
• Put mixer on low speed and gradually add the flour mixture, beat until mixture pulls away from the sides of the bowl. First, add only 3 cups of the flour mixture, and if the mixture is still very soft add the rest of the flour. Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl as needed using a rubber spatula. Divide the dough in half, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Sprinkle your working surface with a little powdered sugar. Remove one wrapped pack of dough from the refrigerator, sprinkle rolling pin with powdered sugar, and roll out dough to ¼-inch thick. Using a stainless steel square cookie cutter, cut into squares and place at least 1-inch apart on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
• Bake for 7 to 9 minutes or until cookies are just beginning to turn brown around the edges. Rotate cookie sheet halfway through baking time.
• Remove from oven and let cookies sit on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
• The cookies must cool completely before icing.
• Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
• Icing:
• In a medium bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, water, corn syrup and salt until combined and without any lumps. If the mixture is too thick (not pourable at all), add ½ tablespoon of water. If the mixture is too thin, add 1 more tablespoon of powdered sugar.
• Test the icing, drizzle a little on parchment paper, if it holds it shape the icing is done, if it starts to melt on the sides right away, the consistency is too thin.
• Pour the icing into a squeezable bottle and have fun decorating. If the icing drips down the sides of the cookies, its ok, as you can remove any excess once the icing is settled.
• Once a cookie is covered in icing, decorate right away with M&M;’s® Peanut Butter before the icing settles.
• Leave cookies on the counter for 12-24 hours for the icing to settle completely. Once the icing is set the cookies can be packed, gifted and transported with ease.

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