Potato Chip Cookies

A tasty, minimal ingredient treat, these Potato Chip Cookies are sweet, salty and an absolute hit with everyone.

If you have never made Potato Chip Cookies, you are absolutely missing out. This is one of those recipes that goes way back for us.

When you’re younger and you hear things like this, you can’t even fathom how good it would be. That’s how I felt anyways.

These Potato Chip Cookies are a delicious dessert recipe that we make every single year for the holidays. We also make it year round because its a favorite cookie at our house.

You get sweet, salty and a melt in your mouth cookie that you will just want to keep eating, trust me.

If you’ve been looking for something a little bit different, but absolutely not lacking on flavor and super easy – you need these Potato Chip Cookies in your life.

Some of our other favorite cookies we have on our site include: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cookies, Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies and Cosmic Brownie Cookies.

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:

• With minimal ingredients, these are so easy to throw together.
• Easily double this recipe to serve more people.
• The sweet and salty work so good and make the perfect flavor combination.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST):

Salted butter
Granulated sugar
All-purpose flour
Vanilla extract
Plain potato chips
Powdered sugar

HOW TO MAKE POTATO CHIPS COOKIES, STEP BY STEP:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line sheet pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
2. In the body of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment or in a large bowl with an electric hand mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until combined.
3. Add in the flour and mix until combined, make sure to  scrape down the sides as needed.
4. Next, stir in the vanilla.
5. Add the crushed potato chips and mix until well incorporated..
6. Place 1 ½ Tablespoons of the cookie dough onto the prepared pans making sure they are 2 inches apart.
7. Place in the oven and bake for 13-18 minutes until the edges start to turn very lightly golden brown. 
8. Remove from the oven and let the cookies cool on the sheet pan for 15 minutes. 
9. Transfer to a wire rack and dust generously with the powdered sugar.
10. Allow to cool completely and serve.

WHAT ARE THE BEST POTATO CHIPS TO USE?

We usually use store brand lightly salted plain potato chips for this recipe, but you can use any brand that you like.

You can even use wavy for these Potato Chip Cookies. You can choose to do plain or lightly salted depending on your salt preference.

If you want less salt you can use unsalted butter and salted or lightly salted potato chips.

DO I HAVE TO SPRINKLE THESE WITH POWDERED SUGAR?

No, you can serve them plain if you would like. We like to use the powdered sugar to really give a nice balance between that sweet and salty.

You can also drizzle these with some melted semi-sweet or milk chocolate for another flavor as well.

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO CRUSH THE POTATO CHIPS?

You can crush them how you like, we do it in a ziptop bag with a rolling pin and get them as crushed up as we can.

Also you can crush them using a food processor as well. You don’t want the chips to be too big, but you do not want a fine powder either.

A nice finely crushed potato chip is what we are looking for but you can have chunks in there.

CAN I ADD ANY ADDITIONS TO THESE COOKIES?

Absolutely! If there are some other flavors that you want to add into these you can absolutely do that. Some of our favorites include:

1. Chocolate Chips (mini or regular)
2. Chopped Nuts
3. Toffee Bits
4. Sprinkles
5. Peanut Butter Chips

Whatever you think would fit perfectly with the sweet and salty flavor or add to it, mix it in!

HOW TO STORE:

These cookies will keep in an airtight container on the counter for up to 5 days.

They can also be frozen, place in a freezer container or bag and they will keep for up to 3 months.

To defrost, remove from the freezer onto to the countertop until thawed.

TIPS AND TRICKS:

• Easily double this recipe to make more to have on hand or serve to guests.
• The powdered sugar on the top really makes these, you can leave it off or do a nice melted chocolate drizzle over the tops.
• These can be frozen, see above on how to do that.
• Use your favorite brand of potato chip, we like to use lightly salted chips with these. You can use unsalted, or use unsalted butter and salted potato chips. This depends on how salty you want your cookies to be.
• Crush your potato chips in a ziptop bag or food processor, but don’t get them too fine we do not want a dust.
• You can also use wavy chips for this recipe.
• Other additions to the cookies can be added, see above for some ideas.

Want that perfect sweet, salty and melt in your mouth cookie? You are in luck, you cannot pass up these Potato Chip Cookies.

If you like this recipe you might also like:

• Chewy Sugar Cookies
• Butter Pecan Cookies
• Grandma’s Butterscotch Oatmeal Crinkle Cookies
• Melting Moments

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