M & M's

I love holidays. Every. Single. One. Decorating, celebrating, dressing in the Holiday colors. You name it. Flag Day, 4th of July. I'm allll over it.

I also love baking. Especially cookies.

Sooo. One of my fav things to do is bake M & M cookies with holiday themes. You know how the stores sell the packs? Red and green for Christmas. Pinks and Whites for Valentines Day, yadda, yadda.

I even branch out sometimes and get a little creative if I do say so myself.

Pick out the red's and blue's... Wait... There is no white M & M's. Add white chocolate chips!

This time I went with the basic assorted Holiday pack.
I've made some for football season where I pick out all the blues and greens for Seahawk colors, red and yellows for the San Fran 49er's. You get the picture. While they are fun and cute, it is not fun to pick through the colors. Plus you need like 5 bags to get enough of the colors you need.

Where am I going with this? My lovely sister had the GENIUS idea of seeing if the Sweet Factory (a specialty candy store in malls around the Pacific Northwest) sold the customizable M & M colors. While they didn't have the ones where you could write messages or print pictures, they had WAYYY more colors of M & M's and they were organized by color!

We bought purple and yellow and she baked up some cute cookies to celebrate Tyson's graduation from UW and his younger brother's acceptance for fall!

Such a fun, easy spin on something simple!

Go bake some in your favorite colors. :)