Patriotic Red White And Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or lightly oil the pan.
Add butter, brown sugar and white sugar together in a large mixing bowl. With an electric mixer cream together butter and sugar on medium until fluffy.
¾ cup butter, 3/4 cup brown sugar, ½ cup white sugar
Crack egg and add vanilla extract to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix the ingredients well until combined.
1 large egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a medium mixing bowl add flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Mix the dry ingredients until combined.
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt
Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix well on first a low setting then a medium setting until the dry ingredients are fully mixed into the wet ingredients and a dough forms.
Stop the mixer and add in the chocolate chips and M&M’s to the dough. Gently mix on low. You can also do this step with a silicone spatula. Mixing the dough on medium or high can cause the M&Ms sometimes to crack.
1/2 cup chocolate chips, 1 cup M&M’s
Scoop the dough with a cookie scoop onto a cookie sheet, about 2 tablespoons of dough at a time. Press a couple extra M&M’s into the top of each dough to decorate the cookies.
Bake for 9-11 minutes or until the cookies just begin to brown around the edges but are still a little gooey in the middle. Cool on a cooling rack, then enjoy.

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