Description
These Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies are festive, colorful, and packed with a delightful mix of M&M's, white chocolate chips, pretzel pieces, potato chip pieces, and sprinkles. Perfect for the holiday season, these chewy, buttery cookies combine sweet and salty flavors with a chewy center and crisp edges, making them an irresistible treat for cookie lovers of all ages.
Ingredients
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Wet Ingredients
- 3/4 cup salted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup granulated white sugar
- 2 egg yolks, at room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Mix-ins
- 1/2 cup red and green M&M's
- 1/3 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup pretzel pieces
- 1/3 cup potato chip pieces
- 2 tbsp red and green jimmies
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Cream Butter and Sugars: In a large bowl, add the softened salted butter, light brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Using an electric mixer, cream them together for two minutes until light and fluffy.
- Add Egg Yolks and Vanilla: Mix in the egg yolks and vanilla bean paste or extract on medium speed for two minutes, or until the mixture is pale in color and fluffy.
- Add Dry Ingredients: Add the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to the wet mixture. Mix until just combined with no visible flour.
- Fold in Mix-ins: Gently fold in the M&M's, white chocolate chips, pretzel pieces, potato chip pieces, and red and green jimmies using a spatula until evenly distributed.
- Scoop Dough: Scoop the dough into 20 balls and arrange them two inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Optionally, add a few extra mix-ins on top of the dough balls for a decorative touch.
- Bake Cookies: Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes for crisper edges or 10 minutes for chewier centers.
- Shape Cookies (Optional): When cookies come out of the oven, use a large circular cookie cutter to swirl around each cookie to form perfect circles and help push the ingredients together.
- Cool: Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely for another 10 minutes.
- Store: Store leftover cookies in an airtight container for up to three days.
Notes
- Measure your flour properly by spooning it into the measuring cup and leveling with a knife, or ideally weigh it to avoid using too much flour. One cup equals 125 grams.
- Adding extra mix-ins on top of the cookie dough balls before baking is optional but makes the cookies look festive and attractive.
- Using a cookie cutter on freshly baked cookies helps create a uniform shape and keeps mix-ins neatly packed.
- For chewier cookies, bake 10 minutes; for crisper edges, bake 12 minutes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 180 kcal
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 110 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg
