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Mimi's Potato Chip Cookies | Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen

Mimi's Potato Chip Cookies

Teresa Ambra
Mimi's Potato Chip Cookies are fantastic! These delicious sugar cookies include potato chips and pecans. No one will ever guess that the secret ingredient in these cookies is potato chips! Quick and easy to whip up for any tailgating party, potluck, backyard barbecue or holiday baking!
4.75 from 4 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 14 minutes
Total Time 29 minutes
Course Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 26
Calories 136 kcal

Equipment

  • 2 large 18x26" cookie sheet pans
  • 1 large mixing bowl
  • 1 electric mixer
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • 1 nut chopper unless you purchase chopped pecans
  • 1 spatula
  • 1 fork or glass to flatten cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup unsalted butter softened (2 sticks)
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp. real vanilla extract
  • 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour bleached flour toughens baked goods
  • 1/2 cup crushed potato chips (crush potato chips in your hands until you have one cup crushed potato chips)
  • 1/2 cup pecans finely chopped (measure after chopping)

Instructions
 

  • With an electric mixer, in a large mixing bowl, cream together butter, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract.
  • Add flour, crushed potato chips, and pecans and stir together with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
  • Form into small balls.
  • Place on greased cookie sheets (or spray with cooking spray).
  • Press cookies flat with glass dipped in sugar or with fork dipped in sugar.
  • Bake at 350° about 12-14 minutes or until lightly browned.
  • Rotate cookie sheets on oven racks after 7 minutes of cooking time.
  • Cool completely.

Notes

NOTE: Can sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.
 
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Nutrition

Calories: 136kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 1gFat: 9gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 19mgSodium: 10mgPotassium: 41mgFiber: 1gSugar: 4gVitamin A: 220IUVitamin C: 0.4mgCalcium: 5mgIron: 1mg
Keyword cookie, dessert, pecans, potato chips, sugar cookie
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