These Kitchen Sink Cookies are the ultimate homemade treat, packed with a delicious mix of potato chips, pretzels, butterscotch chips, and both white and semi-sweet chocolate. The combination of sweet and salty ingredients creates a perfect balance of flavors, while the mix of textures—from crispy to gooey—makes each bite irresistible. Whether you’re a seasoned baker or just getting started, this easy-to-make recipe is perfect for satisfying your cravings for something both crunchy and chewy.
Why You’ll Love this Recipe
Easy to Make:
With simple, everyday ingredients and clear, step-by-step instructions, this cookie recipe is perfect for bakers of all skill levels—whether you’re a seasoned pro or a beginner in the kitchen. No fancy tools or ingredients are required!
Perfect Texture:
These cookies have the ideal balance of chewy and soft in the center with just the right amount of crispness on the edges. Each bite is a melt-in-your-mouth experience, making them a perfect treat for any occasion.
Customizable:
This recipe serves as a base, allowing you to get creative! Add your favorite mix-ins, like walnuts, pecans, white chocolate chips, or even dried cranberries, to make them uniquely yours. You can also adjust the sweetness by adding more or less sugar.
Satisfying Cravings:
Whether you’re craving a sweet treat in the afternoon or need a midnight snack, these cookies hit the spot. The combination of butter, brown sugar, and vanilla creates a flavor that’s both comforting and indulgent.
Ingredients You’ll Need:
- Unsalted Butter
- Brown Sugar: Brings richness and complexity to the cookie dough, thanks to its molasses content. This can result in a deeper, more caramelized flavor, which complements the sweet and salty ingredients in kitchen sink cookies.
- Granulated Sugar: To give a little extra crisp along the edges to balance out the soft interior.
- Egg
- Vanilla Extract: The perfect amount of warmth, radiate, vanilla flavor
- All Purpose Flour
- Baking Soda
- Baking Powder
- Cornstarch
- Salted Potato Chips: The classic Lay’s Potato Chip is my go to for this recipe. They are crisp, light, and have just the perfect amount of saltness to balance the sweetness each bite holds.
- Pretzels
- Butterscotch Chips: A rich, caramel – flavor that blends with the nuttiness texture of the pecans.
- White Chocolate Chips: A bright, creamy contrast to make the cookies look more indulgent while adding a sweet and rich flavor.
- Semi-sweet Chocolate chips: Semi-sweet chocolate chips make a BOLD statement in contrast to the other chocolates. Offering a sweet, creamy flavor, balancing the richness other mix-ins.
- Crushed Pecans: Adds a level of nuttiness flavor that pairs perfectly with the variation of chocolate! Feel free to switch this to almonds, walnuts, or peanuts!
Chocolate Types for Kitchen Sink Cookies
Choosing the right kind of chocolate can be overwhelming. There’s so many different choices of chocolate that can make the right cookie. So, how can you choose? Let me break down the differences between the different types of chocolate I used for these delicious Kitchen Sink Cookies.
Butterscotch Chips: Known for their rich caramel flavor and smooth, creamy texture, butterscotch chips add a unique twist to your cookies. Perfect for those who love sweet and salty combinations, these chips melt beautifully and create a gooey, indulgent texture. They’re a great choice for recipes like kitchen sink cookies, where you want a sweet contrast to salty mix-ins like pretzels and nuts.
White Chocolate Chips: Although technically not chocolate, white chocolate chips offer a creamy, sweet flavor and smooth melt that contrasts beautifully with other cookie ingredients. White chocolate has a sweet, milky taste, making it an ideal pairing with other chocolate varieties, like semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips, in recipes like kitchen sink cookies. They provide a rich, indulgent sweetness that’s perfect for those who prefer a less bitter flavor.
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips: Semi-sweet chocolate chips are the classic choice for chocolate chip cookies, offering a balanced bittersweet flavor that pairs perfectly with the sweetness of cookie dough. These chips are ideal for those who want the rich, bold taste of chocolate without being overwhelmingly sweet. Semi-sweet chips melt well and create a delightful texture in cookies, making them a must-have for any home baker.
Let’s Start Baking!
Everything but the Kitchen Sink Cookies
Ingredients
- 10 tbsp unsalted butter, room temperature (142 g)
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed (165 g)
- 1/4 cup white sugar (50 g)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour (210 g)
- 1 tsp corn starch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup pretzels, crushed (35 g)
- 1/2 cup potato chips, crushed (30 g)
- 1/2 cup butterscotch chips (85 g)
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips, see note (80 g )
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips (45 g)
- 1/4 cup pecans, chopped (25 g)
Instructions
Kitchen Sink Cookies:
- Preheat oven to 375 ℉. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium sized bowl, mix together the flour, corn starch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer or a large bowl with a hand held mixer, cream together room temperature butter and both sugars and until light and fluffy, roughly 2-3 minutes.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla extract, scraping down the sides as needed until fully incorporated.
- Gradually add in the dry ingredients, mixing until just combined. Leaving a few streaks of flour still visible. Add in potato chips, pretzels, butterscotch chips, semi sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and pecans. Mix on lowest speed possible until just combined.
- Using a 1/4 measuring cup or a #16 cookie scooper, scoop out 12 balls of cookie dough and place on cookie sheet, spacing apart so the cookies have room. Bake for 15-18 minutes.
- Sprinkle with sea salt (optional) when cookies are hot from the oven. Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 15 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
Notes
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