M&M, Coconut, and Macadamia Cookies

Cute little chewy cookies loaded with mini M&M’s, shredded coconut, and macadamia nuts will have you reaching your hand in the cookie jar again and again. The addition of coconut and macadamia nuts in these cookies makes them a little different and a little tropical.

And with temperatures expected to reach 80 degrees in South Carolina, it’s going to feel a little tropical tomorrow.

My daughter and I like to go to Goodwill together and hunt for treasures. I always make a bee line to the book section to look for cookbooks. Either I don’t find any at all that I would want, (It’s amazing how quickly dated many cookbooks get. Microwave cookbooks from the 80s? No thank you.) or I find a whole arm full. Never anything in between.

One of my purchases on an occasion I came home with a whole arm full was a cute little M&M cookbook from the 90s called Brighter Baking with M&M’s Chocolate Mini Baking Bits. In this cookbook, they’ve inserted mini M&M’s into about every type of cookie and bar known to man. This recipe was the one that looked most interesting to me and it turned out to be one of my favorite cookies in recent memories. Mainly because I have become obsessed with coconut.

This recipe makes a whole bunch of little cookies so be prepared to invite ALL the neighborhood kids over and be that scorned parent who gets everyone’s kids hopped up on sugar and then sends them home.