Description
These Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies are a festive, fun, and delicious treat packed with a variety of mix-ins like M&M’s, white chocolate chips, pretzels, potato chips, and colorful sprinkles. Perfect for holiday celebrations, these cookies combine sweet and salty flavors with a soft and chewy texture, baked to golden perfection.
Ingredients
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Cookie Dough
- 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
- 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 (sprinkles)
Instructions
- Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside for easy cleanup and to prevent sticking.
- Cream Butter and Sugars: In a large bowl, add the softened salted butter, light brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Using an electric mixer, beat the mixture for two minutes until it becomes light and fluffy, which helps create a tender cookie texture.
- Add Egg Yolks and Vanilla: Add the egg yolks and vanilla bean paste or extract to the creamed butter mixture. Continue mixing on medium speed for two minutes until the batter is pale in color and fluffy, ensuring proper incorporation of ingredients.
- Incorporate Dry Ingredients: Gradually add the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to the wet ingredients. Mix until just combined to avoid overworking the dough, which keeps cookies tender.
- 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 throughout the dough.
- Scoop Dough: Scoop the dough into 20 equal balls and arrange them two inches apart on the prepared baking sheets to allow for spreading.
- Optional Decoration: Add a few extra mix-ins on top of each cookie dough ball for a festive look and extra texture.
- Bake Cookies: Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes, depending on your preferred texture—10 minutes for chewier centers and 12 minutes for crisper edges.
- Shape Cookies: Optional – When the cookies come out of the oven, use a large circular cookie cutter to gently swirl around each cookie to give them a perfect round shape, pushing the mix-ins inward.
- Cool Cookies: Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes to set, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely for an additional 10 minutes.
- Store: Store any leftovers in an airtight container for up to three days to maintain freshness.
Notes
- Measure your flour properly to avoid dense cookies. Spoon flour into the measuring cup and level off with a knife, or weigh it for accuracy (1 cup = 125 grams).
- Using a cookie cutter immediately after baking helps achieve uniform and attractive cookie shapes by pushing the mix-ins together.
- Adding extra mix-ins on top of the dough balls is optional but enhances the festive appearance of the cookies.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 160
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 110mg
- Fat: 8g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
