Santa's Christmas Trash Cookies are everything! These cookies pretty much have everything you could ever want in cookies and more! Which is why they are called 'trash' cookies. Trash never tasted so good! Sweet and salty is a perfect match and always has you coming back for more. Have you noticed?
Imagine soft, chewy cookies smooshed with loads of mini white and chocolate Reese cups, white and chocolate chips, pretzels, potato chips, sea salt and festive sprinkles! Seriously, you get the best of both worlds with epic sweet and salty yumminess in these holiday cookies.
Santa would be proud of these cookie accomplishments and will be rushing down the chimney to get to these! Can't you just see it? So fun to celebrate with all the colorful candies and sprinkles!
The possibilities of adding in whatever you might have in your kitchen cupboards as far as the add-ins, you can literally go bonkers!
As an example, if you're more into caramel instead of peanut butter with the with the sweet and salty factor, you could add in Rolos instead of peanut butter cups.
Or if you want to switch out the potato chips with roasted peanuts or almonds, go all out and customize these cookies to your heart's content! 'Tis the season, after all! The more the merrier!
You can also customize these trashy cookies for other seasons and holidays by the color of candies and sprinkles you use.
- Easter, switch out to pastel colors.
- Valentine's Day, switch out to red and pink colors.
- Halloween, switch out to orange, yellow and brown colors.
- Thanksgiving, switch out to fall colors...Get my drift? Yea...I got you!
Sea salt really takes these to another level. Just a light sprinkle is all you need. It magically enhances the sugar flavor in the cookies and we can't get enough of it! Hope you enjoy!
For more cookies, check out my cookie page...you'll find tons!
Favorite Cookies You Keep Coming Back For!
- Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Best-Ever White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
- Christmas Cowboy Cookies
- Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies! Pure Nirvana!
- "Phenomenal" Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Santa’s Christmas Trash Cookies
Ingredients
- 14 tablespoons unsalted butter room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda make sure it's not expired
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup crushed potato chips
- ⅓ cup crushed pretzels
- ½ cup mini white chocolate reese cups
- ½ cup mini chocolate reese cups
- ⅓ cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup m&m's I used red, green and blue
- ⅓ cup white chocolate chips
- ¼ cup sprinkles of choice
- Sprinkles of flaky sea salt for tops of cookies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º and line two baking sheets with parchment.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt until combined, set aside.
- Using a mixer on, in a large bowl cream together butter and sugars for 1-3 minutes on medium speed until light and fluffy. Once the mixture turns pale yellow in color and has a light and fluffy texture, you’re done. Do not over-cream mixture.
- Beat in egg until combined.
- Add dry ingredients to wet and mix until together until combined. (Dough will be very thick.)
- Add in potato chips, pretzels, m&m's reese cups, chocolate chips, and sprinkles and mix together.
- Using a medium sized scoop, scoop onto parchment paper and slightly press them down onto baking sheets and sprinkle with sea salt. Add additional pretzels, chips, candies and sprinkles to tops of cookies for decorative touches. If you want the cookies thick, don't press down as much, you can control how thick you want them. Sprinkle with some sea salt if you wish.Can also chill dough until ready to use, scoop the dough balls and store them in fridge until ready to bake.
- Bake until edges are just starting to get golden, 7 to 8 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool 2 to 3 minutes, then transfer to cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
Recipe slightly modified from Delish
Kim Lange says
It sounds like too much flour, can you make sure you are measuring the flour with spooning the flour into a measuring cup and leveling it off. You could also decrease the flour by a couple of tablespoons and see how the cookie dough is as well. Hope this helps, please let me know how it works out? Thank you Laurie for your feedback, I hope this helps a bit. 🙂
Laurie says
Hello!! I followed your recipe precisely. My cookies were extremely dry. I would love to try them again. Any ideas on what I did wrong?
Thank you!:)
Kim Lange says
I hear ya! hehehe Thanks Valentina!
Valentina says
I won't have any left for Santa! These are so packed with deliciousness! 🙂 ~Valentina
2pots2cook says
Absolutely perfect not only for holidays but for crazy days, too ! Thank you Kim ! xo
Ben|Havocinthekitchen says
I've seen quite often Santa's Christmas trash cookies lately (I guess that's a new trend!), but I haven't tried them yet. I'm a huge fan pf sweet&salty, so this idea sounds appealing to me. They look totally festive, too!
Katherine | Love In My Oven says
Sweet and salty is my jam! These are perfect. All of the colors and textures, now that's my kind of cookie!! I bet these would get so snapped up from a Christmas platter! XO
Kim Lange says
Me too! It's such an awesome combo! Thanks Kelsie!! xo
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen says
I will never have enough salty sweets! These sound AWESOME, Kim!
Kim Lange says
Thank you so much Kelly! I wish I could eat them all! xo
Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says
Hahahah first off, I just LOVE the name of these cookies!! So fun! And second, I want to eat that these cookies because there's just so much deliciousness going on in them. Pinned to my Christmas dessert board 🙂 XOXO