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Looking for the best 4th of July desserts? These cookies are made with red and blue M&M’s and sprinkled with red, white, and blue stars. Our favorite 4th of July cookies with a red, white, and blue theme!
These festive cookies are loaded with flavor and are made with peanut butter, cinnamon and chocolate. YUM! Perfect for celebrating Independence Day.
Another version of a monster cookie, these are chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, and M&M cookies all in one!
Why You Will Love These Cookies
Patriotic cookies are perfect for the backyard barbecue, summer pool party, and taking along to watch fireworks.
You can easily make these cookies ahead of time, storing in an air tight container for later enjoyment.
4th of July Cookies Recipe Ingredients
To make this Fourth of July dessert recipe, you will need the following ingredients (scroll down to the recipe card below for the full recipe):
- Butter: always use unsalted butter when baking unless the recipe specifies salted butter
- Vanilla extract
- Sugar: you will use both brown sugar and granulated sugar in this sweet cookie recipe
- Peanut butter
- Cinnamon
- Red and blue M&Ms
- Red, white, and blue sprinkles
- Chocolate chips
- Egg, flour, baking powder, baking soda: the necessary ingredients for baking cookies
How to Make Red, White and Blue Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix the ingredients. Cream the butter and sugars together in a medium sized bowl using a hand mixer. Once you have a creamy texture, add the vanilla extract, egg, and peanut butter. Mix well. In a separate bowl blend together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and baking powder with a whisk. Pour the dry mixture into the bowl with the wet mixture. Use a wooden spoon to mix all ingredients well, about 1 minute.
- Add the fun stuff. Add the M&Ms, sprinkles, and chocolate chips and continue to blend with the spoon.
- Prepare a baking sheet. Using a scoop, add 2 inch dough balls of cookie dough to the sheet and separate them by a few inches.
- Bake cookies for 11-12 minutes, or until the edges start to brown. Press down with the back of a spoon one minute before removing them from the oven. Continue to bake.
- Cool the cookies. Remove the cookies from the oven. Allow the cookies to cool for a minute before placing them on a wire cooling rack.
Recipe Tips
If you want the cookies to have extra M&M’s and sprinkles to these fireworks cookies, add a few to the tops right after they come out of the oven and press down gently. This also makes for lovely presentation.
Variations
- Make cookie bars by pressing the dough into a sheet pan and baking in the oven.
- Add red white and blue M&Ms to my red velvet cookies.
- Simplify the recipe by making regular sugar cookies and adding M&Ms.
Storage Instructions
Store July 4th cookies in an air tight container on the countertop for 3-4 days.
Other 4th of July Recipes
- 4th of July Cake in a Jar
- Red, White and Blue 4th of July Popcorn
- Firecracker Strawberry Pops
- 4th of July Cake Cups with Fruit
- No Bake 4th of July Cookies
- 4th of July Ice Cream Sandwiches
- 4th of July Cake Mix Cookies
Recipe Notes
This recipe originally called for a 1/2 cup of quick oats, but it ended up being too much “stuff” and the dough was crumbly before it even got baked. You can add them back in, just know you may have to pack the dough into balls before baking so they stay together.
4th of July Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg room temperature
- 1 ¼ cups flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup red and blue M&Ms
- 3 Tablespoons red, white, and blue sprinkles
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream the butter and sugars together in a medium sized bowl using a hand mixer. Once you have a creamy texture, add the vanilla, egg, and peanut butter. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl blend together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and baking powder with a whisk.
- Pour the dry mixture into the bowl with the wet mixture.
- Use a wooden spoon to mix all ingredients well, about 1 minute.
- Add the M&Ms, sprinkles, and chocolate chips and continue to blend with the spoon.
- Prepare a baking sheet. Using a scoop, add 2 inch balls of cookie dough to the sheet and separate them by a few inches.
- Bake cookies for 11-12 minutes, or until the edges start to brown. Press down with the back of a spoon one minute before removing them from the oven. Continue to bake.
- Remove the cookies from the oven. If you want the cookies to have extra M&M’s and sprinkles, now is the perfect time to add a few to the tops and press down easily.
- Allow the cookies to cool for a minute before placing them on a wire cooling rack.
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Nutrition
The nutrition information is calculated using online nutrition calculators and may not be accurate. It is provided as a general guide only.
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Emily Enchanted
Monday 8th of August 2022
I love this recipe because it is so patriotic and just a really good cookie.