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Chocolate Potato Chip Sandwiches | Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen | these #cookies are awesome! They start with a #potatochip cookie & have a luscious #chocolate frosting between them. This dessert is terrific for #fall or #Halloween baking or #christmas cookie exchanges.

Chocolate Potato Chip Sandwiches

Teresa Ambra
Chocolate Potato Chip Sandwiches are so drool-worthy, you won't be able to stay out of them! These fabulous Sugar Cookies include crushed potato chips in the batter. Then they're sandwiched between thick, rich, decadent chocolate frosting. This sensational dessert will rock your world!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24
Calories 285 kcal

Equipment

  • 2 18x26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 2 large mixing bowls
  • 2 wooden spoons
  • measuring cups
  • measuring spoons
  • 1 spatula
  • 2 wire cooling racks

Ingredients
  

COOKIES:

  • 1 3/4 cups unsalted butter (3 1/2 sticks)
  • 3 1/2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens cookies
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1 cup crushed potato chips (crush potato chips in your hands; measure after crushing)

CHOCOLATE FROSTING:

  • 5 tbsp. unsalted butter melted
  • 3 tbsp. cream not milk
  • 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 3 cups confectioners’ sugar
  • 1/3 cup cocoa or 3 one-ounce squares unsweetened chocolate

Instructions
 

COOKIES:

  • Crush enough potato chips in your hands into small pieces to measure one cup; set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, blend butter to a peak with an electric mixer.
  • Add granulated sugar, and vanilla and cream again.
  • Stir in flour and crushed potato chips and mix until very thoroughly mixed.
  • Roll dough into balls and place on greased or sprayed cookie sheets.
  • Can press down with fork dipped in sugar in a criss-cross fashion for a flatter cookie. (Or flatten with hands).
  • Bake at 350° for 15 minutes.
  • Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks half-way through baking time.
  • Cool; transfer cookies to wire cooling racks.
  • Spread bottom of one cookie with chocolate icing.
  • Top with another potato chip cookie.

CHOCOLATE FROSTING:

  • Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer.
  • Mix together and spread between cooled cookies to make sandwiches.

Notes

NOTE: I press the cookies down lightly with my hands before baking.
 
NOTE: Mom always used cocoa rather than chocolate squares.
 
NOTE: You may have more frosting than you need for one batch of cookies.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 285kcalCarbohydrates: 45gProtein: 3gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 44mgSodium: 22mgPotassium: 88mgFiber: 1gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 518IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 11mgIron: 1mg
Keyword chocolate, chocolate dessert, cookie, dessert, potato chips, sugar cookie
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