Peppermint M&M Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup Crisco shortening

  no substitutes
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 3 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 2 tsp. cream of tartar
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. peppermint extract
• 16 oz. pkg. white peppermint-flavored M&M's

  (two 8-ounce packages)

Instructions

• 1 Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, baking soda, cream of tartar, peppermint extract
  and salt, beating well with an electric mixer.
• 2 Add flour and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
• 3 Roll into balls and place on a greased cookie sheet.
• 4 Press peppermint-flavored M&M’s into the tops and sides of each cookie.
• 5 Bake 2” apart in a 350° oven for about 15 minutes, or until done.
• 6 Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks every seven minutes of baking time.
• 7 Cool completely.

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