Sweet or salty🤷🏻♀️? A question many have already picked a side, on one hand you crave something sweet or on the other hand something salty. As the great food expert Joey Tribbiani once said “put your hands together“. These cookies do just that using the sweetness of chocolate and butterscotch and the saltiness of pretzels and chips, it’s a match made in heaven!
Christmas season is here and baking is in full swing, time to try new recipes and bake some classic ones. These cookies are an old favourite of mine with a bit of a twist on the original chocolate chip cookie. First by browning the butter you get a rich nutty flavour. Mixing in not only chocolate and butterscotch chips but also crushed pretzels and plain chips you combine the sweet and salty flavours of some of your favourite junk foods.
Browning butter is a very quick and simple step to add a great layer of flavour to your cookies. You just need butter and a saucepan, with the heat set on medium high you toss the butter in and let it melt. Start to swirl your sauce pan once butter is melted until you notice the colour start to turn a light amber. You then just continue to stir the butter until it reaches a nice caramel colour/dark amber. Remove pan from heat and let cool to room temperature and voila you are done and have a great ingredient to had to your recipes.
Junk Food Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, browned
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup butterscotch chips
- 1/2 cup chopped pretzels
- 1/2 cup roughly chopped plain Lays Chips
- sprinkle of sea salt to Top each cookie
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350F and line cookie sheets with parchment.
In a small sauce pan on medium high, melt butter and swirl pan until butter turns caramel in colour. Set aside and let cool for 15 minutes.
In a medium bowl combine flour, baking soda and sea salt, set aside
Once butter has cooled for 15 minutes combine butter and brown sugar in a mixing bowl fitted with a paddle attachment. mix for about 1 minute.
Add eggs one at a time until combine then mix in vanilla. With the mixer set on a low speed slowly add in flour until combined
Using a wooden spoon gently fold in choclate chips, butterscotch chips, pretzels and chips.
Using a 2 inch cookie scoop, scoop cookies into a prepared baking sheet and sprinkle each with a little sea salt. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges are slightly golden. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 3 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Junk Food has never tasted sooo good!! Your family will have a new favourite cookie with this recipe!
Enjoy!!
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