No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Nor did this picture simply capture my afternoon snack among the usual suspects of a classic chocolate chip cookie recipe. These are the ingredients for my junk cookies. Semi-sweet and white chocolate chips, and ruffled potato chips? I am not pregnant again, I promise. This idea came to me at 3 o'clock in the morning (as most good ideas usually do), chocolate covered potato chips are delicious, why not just throw all of the ingredients into a cookie? It turns out I am not the only baker who feels this way, as I have seen many variations of this recipe on the internet these past few days. The salty and sweet of the chocolates and potato chip combined with the crunchy bits of chip inside of this soft cookie truly is a beautiful union of the junk food worlds. Come on this is a wonderful thing people, get on board and get baking!
What You'll Need:
2 cups of pre-sifted all purpose flour
2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups of white chocolate chips
2 cups of rough crushed ruffled potato chips
3/4 cup of light brown sugar
1/2 cup of white sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of baking soda
3 eggs
2 sticks of butter, room temperature
Start by preheating your oven to 350 F and roughly crushing up your potato chips. Mix your flour, salt, and baking soda together in a medium sized mixing bowl. In another large mixing bowl, cream the white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, and room temperature butter. Can I please just say it really does make all of the difference in the world if your butter is room temperature as opposed to melted or refrigerated when it comes to creaming the butter and sugar together? If it's melted it changes the consistency of this cookie into a greasy brittle mess, and if it's too cold, you will find yourself hurling curse words at the mixture because it is hard and pebbly and not mixing like it should. Or maybe that's just me..Moving on! Once your butter and sugar is creamed slowly mix in the 3 eggs and then hand mix the dry ingredients in. After it is all incorporated stir in both white and semi-sweet chocolate chips in. Now this is where things get a little strange, but please trust me on this and you'll be glad you did.
Gently mix in the crushed potato chips with a rubber spatula until everything is mixed thoroughly. Then, grab a tablespoon and start scooping out spoonfuls of the cookie dough and dropping them onto an ungreased cookie sheet..try and refrain from eating half of the uncooked dough, it will be hard, but just try.
Bake these little clumps of artery clogging love in the oven for 12-15 minutes, checking at 12 minutes to make sure they don't get crunchy. Crunchy is bad folks. You want a soft cake like cookie with crunchy bits of chips. I cannot, and will not, bake a crunchy cookie. I absolutely refuse. If you feel differently, please don't ever tell me. Let your cookies cool for a few minutes, get your battle gear on, and prepare to fight off the masses of people that will surely be coming to steal your cookies. Or..just let them cool and enjoy!
Have any strange snack combinations that you enjoy that you swear hands down is the ruler of all snacks? Please share in a comment below!
These look fabulous! I must try some ASAP.
ReplyDelete<3 ps. youre an inspiration for sure.