Secret Ingredient Easter M&M Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup packed brown or coconut sugar
• ½ cup white sugar (substitutes okay)
• ½ cup coconut oil or softened butter
• ½ cup mashed white beans (I put mine in a food processor and made them into a puree)
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 2 ½ cups + 2-3 tbsp unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1 ½ cups M&M's or Sunspire chocolate coated candies

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl with a mixer set to low, blend together the sugars, coconut oil or butter and white beans until smooth and all coconut oil chunks are broken up. Add in the eggs and vanilla and continue blending until smooth. Add in the flour, baking soda and salt and continue to blend until smooth. Fold in the M&M's.
2. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes prior to baking. Note: If you are worried about the M&M colors bleeding, you can wait and fold in the M&M's prior to baking.
3. Drop cookie dough by rounded tablespoons several inches apart on your cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges. Remove from oven and allow cookies to cool for several minutes on the cookie sheet before moving to a cooling rack to finish cooling completely.