Christmas Crack Compost Cookies
This recipe method takes a lot of inspiration from a Bon Appetit recipe called “Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Toffee”. I highly suggest you make their original recipe, it’s my go-to and it is the cookie “formula” I follow when I want to make a cookie flavor of my own.
Compost cookies aren’t my idea either — they’re by the founder of Milk Bar. I love the idea of adding potato chips and pretzels into cookies. The saltiness adds another layer of flavor.
Christmas Crack is a huge recipe during Christmas, it’s saltines baked with toffee and chocolate. There’s so many recipes online for it, I didn’t write it here but I suggest you search a video tutorial. It’s super easy.
Ingredients:
2 cups chopped ‘christmas crack’, tons of recipes online!
1/2 cup thin salted potato chips
1/2 cup crushed pretzels, plain
225g butter, unsalted
250g all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
200g brown sugar
50g caster sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
Method:
Brown the butter in a frying pan over low-medium heat, stirring constantly for about 5 minutes or until golden brown. Pour into a bowl and let cool until it’s room temperature.
Add brown sugar, vanilla and caster sugar to the brown butter. Beat using an electric hand mixer until just combined, about 1 minute. Add in eggs and beat for 3-5 minutes or until light golden in color.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, baking soda and stir to combine. Slowly incorporate the dry mix into the butter/egg mix and beat on low speed until well combined.
Leave in room temperature for at least 30 minutes for the flour to hydrate. It will thicken.
Preheat oven to 375F/190C fan-forced. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
Add potato chips, christmas crack and crushed pretzels to the batter. Gently fold in to combine. The chips will break and it’s all good. Scoop the cookie dough using an ice cream scoop onto a baking tray, keeping them well apart. Top with flakey salt.
Bake for 9 minutes then leave to cool for 10 minutes. Enjoy straight away!
