Santa’s Christmas Trash Cookies
These cookies pretty much cover everything you could ever want in cookies and more, which is why they are called ‘trash’ cookies. 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! Trash never tasted so good!
Servings: 16 Cookies
Calories:
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
Can add more potato or pretzels (up to 2/3 cup of each, if you wish for more saltiness)
Feel free to modify any candies with whatever candies you wish.
Add some vanilla extract if you wish.