Hidden Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup butter, softned
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 3/4 cup m&m's plain chocolate candy
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 pinch baking powder

Recipe

• 1 pre heat oven to 400.
• 2 grease cooking sheets.
• 3 stir baking soda salt and baking powder into flour and set aside.
• 4 cream butter and the sugars untill fluffy.
• 5 add vanilla and egg and beat throughly.
• 6 gradually add flour mixture stirring until just combined.
• 7 divide dough into two equal portions.
• 8 place 1 portion of dough on large sheet of waxed paper and place second sheet of waxed paper ontop that.
• 9 put rest of dough in the fridge.
• 10 with a rolling pin roll the dough between the paper to thickness if 1/8 inch.
• 11 place on cutting board and put in the freezer for 5 minute.
• 12 to make it easy to cut and handle.
• 13 when dough is firm, take it out of the freezer, gently lift top wax paper and replace it.
• 14 turn dough over and remove other waxpaper now on top.
• 15 using 2 inch round cookie cutter cut as many cookies as you have dough.
• 16 transfer these to cookie sheet, either greased or lined with parchment paper.
• 17 place 6 or 7 of the m&m's on each cookie round.
• 18 now take the second portion of dough out of fridge and roll as you did with the first.
• 19 again cut with cookie cutter.
• 20 place a round on top each m&m top cookie and using edge of fork seal edges of each cookie.
• 21 bake ten minute.
• 22 watch close because oven is hot.
• 23 allow to rest 1 min after taking out of oven.
• 24 cool on wire racks.