Crazy! That’s what I thought my friend, Carol, was when she told me she was baking cookies after work and the main ingredient was potato chips.
I was the one that was crazy for doubting her baking skills. These were the easiest, cheapest cookies I’ve ever made, and they are fabulous! They taste a bit like shortbread, probably because of all the fat. 🙂
Carol’s advice is to buy the cheapest potato chips you can find, and she says they freeze very well. Perfect for the holiday season.
Happy baking!
I found this recipe on linkchaos, but when I called Carol to see how I was doing with my cookie making, she said her recipe was pretty close to the same.
Pretty Aspen Snowflake Potato Chip Cookies
Ingredients
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup crushed potato chips
How to cook :
Cream together butter, sugar and vanilla.
Mix flour and potato chips, and add to creamed mixture.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
Bake 10 minutes at 350F.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
What pretty little cookies!!! I have to make them since they are a Colorado Themed Cookie. 🙂
I didn’t think of that. They are. Happy holidays!
WOW, this is a first for me too but those cookies sure look good and I’ll have to try these!
You would never know they had potato chips in them, that’s for sure!
I had a recipe that I tore out of a newspaper many years ago for Potato Chip cookies, I think from the Washington Post. I never got around to making them, and the recipe has long since vanished. I can’t imagine a better recipe to make with the kids. It’s back on the to-do list now. Thanks!
It would be really easy for kids to make, fun too! Happy holidays!
Those look so cute!
These really do look like snowflakes, so pretty!
Interesting. I never heard of potato chip cookies. Now I want to try out the recipe so that I can taste them. Did you use salted or unsalted chips?
I thought the same thing, so I just had to try them. Carol said to use the cheapest chips you can find, so I used salted. 🙂
I am so curious to try these! Potato chips and cookies together – sounds perfect to me.
I agree. Problem is I LOVE potato chips. I just dumped the rest of the bag in the garbage. Good thing they were cheap! The cookies really are good even today. They taste like shortbread. Happy holidays!
Looks delicious and simple recipe 😀
these are wonderful and festive I can imagine what they must taste like mmmmmmmm!
They taste like a shortbread, believe it or not. I think it’s all that butter! 🙂
This looks like a recipe the kids will surely enjoy making. Not only making cookies but the fact they get to crumble and eat potato chips with cookies. Thanks for sharing.
I had fun crumbling and eating the chips myself! 🙂
wonderful cookies! I could eat a handful of these
They’re gone already. Who knew potato chips would make a good cookie!
crazy, easy, good and cheap … now who wouldn’t like this … thanks – this is my next cookie to make….
Pretty weird, but I like potato chips on sandwiches so I guess I’ll have to try these.
Pretty weird is true, but I figured it was cheap enough to give it a try. 🙂
Ok, you got my attention at “cheapest” and “shortbread”. I love both. Making these today.
This was a crazy recipe, but so much fun to make!