Red, White & Blue "everything" cookies

So, Alex came home Thursday night and said - "Oh, I need 48 cookies for tomorrow...and I want them to be chocolate chip and red, white & blue!"...I was like "What?" and he said "Everyone passed their "citizenship test" (um, that's good!) and so we are celebrating that and Barack Obama...I told my teacher you would make cookies!". *Sigh*, thanks, son.

So, here is what we came up with. Because Valentime's Day is around the corner, the store had just red M&M's, and they were Cherry Chocolate flavored. We used those. Then, I used White Chocolate Chips. That left "Blue". So, I bought 3 HUGE bags of M&M's and the girls spent a 1/2 hour sorting out all the blue M&M's. One bag was Peanut Butter filled, so in all we had "White Chocolate, Cherry, Peanut Butter M&M cookies". They sound kind of funny, but YUM, were they good!

Here is the recipe *makes 24 cookies*:

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup Cherry Chocolate M&M's
1 cup Blue M&M's
1 cup White Chocolate Chips

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, white chocolate chips, and M&M's. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.

Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.