Saturday, August 21, 2010

Garbage Cookies


I am going to make a bold statement and say that making these cookies was the most fun I’ve ever had. Wow. Bold. I know. BUT SO TRUE! These cookies not only taste amazing but also hep you clean out some space in your cabinets! So what’s not to love?!
For these cookies I just used a chocolate chip cookie base.

First preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Combine 1 cup butter with 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, 1 egg and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth, fluffy and light in color. 

In a separate bow combine 2 cups four, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Combine flour mixture and butter mixture.

Now comes the fun part! Gather any random food items you have in cabinet and make pour them all into a bowl. I went CRAZY and used Luna bars, Oreos, Nuts, Chewy bars, Vegan macaroons (why do we own these?!), Pretzels, Chocolate bars, Junior Mints, Twix bars, trail mix, carmel corn, Le Petit Ecolier cookies and SO MUCH MORE! Then I crushed it all up and mixed it all together so that all the wonderful add ins would start to blend together. Then I added them to the cookie dough. I tripled the recipe because of all the crazy add ins I wanted to use. However, the cookie dough can hold a lot! So even if you have a lot of add ins you could just make one batch of cookie dough and the dough could hold it. Did that make any sense? It made sense in my head…. Anyways! Mix the add ins with the cookie dough by hand. Once they are fully incorporated roll the cookie dough into balls and place on a greased pan.

The baking time varies based on amount of add ons but I would say it takes from 8 to 12 minutes. Watch the cookies carefully as the baking time will vary.

I hope you have as much fun baking these cookies as I did. Although this is probably impossible because I was so thoroughly enjoying myself!




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