Potato Chip Cookies
Submitted by Rich Williams (‘62)Ingredients:
- 6 cups potato chips, separated, not crushed
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
Cooking Instructions:
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- Crush the 6 cups of potato chips by putting them in a ziploc bag and rolling them with a rolling pin. Or just crush them with your hands. You want to end up with about 2 cups of crushed potato chips. Once you are done crushing measure 1 cup of potato chips for mixing into the batter and set the remaining crushed chips aside.
- In a mixer beat the butter on high speed for about 1 minute.
- Then add the sugar and vanilla and mix until everything is combined and creamy.
- Add the egg and beat the mixture again.
- Add the flour and mix it until it is mixed into the batter.
- Then stir 1 cup of potato chips into the batter. You can stir them in by hand or use a mixer, but don’t overmix the potato chips.
- Cover the dough and chill it for about 1 hour, until it is easy to handle.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Shape the dough into 1 inch balls, with a cookie scoop or by rolling them between your hands.
- Put the balls about 1 inch apart on a cookie sheet. Either use an ungreased cookie sheet or cover it with a silicone baking mat.
- Use a drinking glass or your fingers to flatten the cookies until they are about 1/4 inch thick.
- Take some of the remaining potato chips and sprinkle them on top of the cookies, pressing them down lightly into the dough.
- Bake for about 12 minutes until the cookies are just starting to brown on the edges.
- Cool the cookies on wire racks.