Sugar Cookie Jewels

(from Lucianolinda’s recipe box)

Source: Lifestyle Food Digest

Categories: Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 (12oz.) pkg. (1 3/4 cups) M&M's Semisweet or Milk Chocolate Mini Baking Bits
  • Additional sugar as needed

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy; add egg and vanilla extract.
  3. Combine flour and baking soda; add to creamed mixture just until blended.
  4. Stir in M&M mini baking bits.
  5. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Place on greased cookie sheets about 2 inches apart.
  6. With bottom of a glass dipped in sugar, flatten dough very slightly so as not to crush baking bits.
  7. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden; let cool 1 minute or until edges are light golden; let cool 1 minute before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.
  8. Store in tightly covered container.

  9. makes about 4 dozen cookies

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