Left over candy cookies! Stuffed cookies with an M&M cookie dough!

So the tactic of picking out the candies you would want to eat for the trick-or-treaters, didn't quite work out for us. We ended up with way more candy than visitors and though we like all the flavors of candy, we just can't eat it all. 

In comes the Thanksgiving pot lucks. Why not make cookies with all our leftover Halloween candy? I searched through pinterest and punch fork and found these great recipes:

Fantastic Family Favorite's M&M cookie bars

Sugar Loco's Stuffed Cookies

Make-it-do's First Day of School Cookies

The mini cookies will be done in a later post but this time we're doing STUFFED COOKIES with M&M cookie dough! These are ridiculous! 

So I had to kind of combine two recipes. I used the an adjusted dough of both the cookies and then stuffed it in the method of Sugar Loco's recipe. 

This seemed like a lot of butter but it was only 3/4 of  Sugar Loco's recipe 

Just the wet ingredients, the sugar, eggs and vanilla - looks so good! 

Added the dry to have by dough. Hand stirring was a little more effort than I wanted to do but it was worth it! 

Added the M&M's to the dough. Eight fun sizes of your choice - remember, we're adding more candy in the end!

Per Sugar Loco's instructions, put a 3/4" ball on the bottom of a greased muffin tin. 

Add treat of choice.

Then cover with another 3/4' ball of dough. I did another Reese's and a Butterfinger (broke the Butterfinger in two to make it fit)

All three covered up and ready to go into the oven for 35 minutes

Out of the oven. Not quite the muffin apperance that Sugar Loco got. 

Let them cool for as long as you can - at LEAST 20 minutes! Then it'll come out all cute like this.

When you open it up, you can see the treat! 

I do NOT suggest Butterfingers. The core doesn't really melt and it turned into more of a candy in the middle. 

Recipe (adapted from Sugar Loco and Fantastic Family Favorite's:

• 2 1/8 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 12 TBSPs butter (1 1/2 sticks), melted and cooled slightly
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 tsps vanilla extract
• 7-8 fun size packets of M&M's 
• Candies to stuff inside the cookies (Reese's work best, Crunch bars, Oreos, Snickers, ets. I don't suggest Butterfingers)

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.  Prepare a 12 cup muffin pan, by greasing with butter or pan spray.  In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
In a large bowl with an electric mixer, blend the granulated and brown sugars.  Add the butter and beat to form a grainy paste.  Add the eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla, then beat at medium speed until fully combined.  Add the flour mixture and blend at low speed until just combined; do no over mix.  Fold in the M&Ms.
For each cookie, roll a 3/4 inch ball and press into the bottom of the muffin cups.  Press the treat of your choice into the center of the cookie.  Roll another 3/4 inch ball and cover the treat by pressing it over the top.
Place in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, checking every so often.  The wet appearance will disappear, and the cookies will look dry once they are done.  Pull out of the oven and let cool for about 15 minutes (even longer if you can) before attempting to remove them from the cups.