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September 20, 2012

Chewy M & M Cookie Recipe – and Don’t Forget the Reeses Pieces!

What’s better than chewy M & M cookies? Almost nothing unless it is a chewy peanut butter M & M cookie with Reeses Pieces added for good measure. If you are an M & Ms addict these cookies are for you… unless you are allergic to peanut butter. If you are then please give the Cream Cheese M & Ms cookies a try.

I will freely admit that I have a weird quirk – actually several of them. I prefer the red M & Ms over any other. I had my children convinced at one point in time that the red ones must always be given to me. My husband, who has a slight addiction to the candy that melts in your mouth not in your hands, is sweet enough to pick out the red ones and save them for me.

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Cream Cheese M and M’s Cookies

December first! Christmas season is in full swing and it is the month of cookies.

I did some research and I really could not find an answer that I felt answered the question of where the tradition of baking Christmas cookies came from. I imagine that it came from some of the early traditions of the Pagans and the Romans who celebrated the Feast of Saturnella, the winter solstice, and other important holidays at this time. The early church was underground out of necessity – to be a Christian meant that you were in constant danger of arrest and death. So, rather than having a celebration that was different from those of the people around them, they adapted many of the traditions of the cultures they lived in.