Ingredients
- 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup crushed potato chips
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- Sugar for dipping
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, for garnish (optional)
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the salt and vanilla. Then add the pecans and potato chips and mix well. With a wooden spoon, stir in the flour just until it disappears.
Roll the batter into balls about the size of a large walnut and place on the parchment-lined cookie sheet, allowing plenty of room for spreading. Coat the bottom of a heavy glass with butter and then dip in sugar. Press and twist to flatten each ball into a 3-inch circle. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges turn lightly golden brown. Transfer to racks to cool.
For optional garnish, melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pot of simmering water. Let cool slightly. When cool enough to handle, dip your fingertips, or the tines of a fork, in the chocolate and drizzle over the cookies. Refrigerate to set.
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By tennyl
on December 10, 2011
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These cookies are delicious. I highly recommend them.
By carynbernice
on December 22, 2010
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Delicious! Suprisingly. My daughter says the potato chip completes the cookie. It really does add something extra. I'll be making these every year from now on.
By tweety0099_11975648
East Elmhurst, 72
on July 18, 2009
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The children and I cook in our school in the after school program whenever we have a half day of school and during the summer once a week. We kind of talk about what we are going to cook the next time, cookies are always on the list, specially chocolate chips, they love making them as well as eating them. This time I did not talked about what kind of cookies we were making (or rather, they were making, since they do the cooking I decided to try making them but in my mind I kept hoping that they would taste half decent. The children kept looking at me when I said to crush the potato chips and put them in, finally one said "Miss Cassar, potato chips, in the cookies, are you sure? Are you alright? I said, yes, trust me. I was scared to try one thinking that they would taste bad. Well, they turned out to be one of the best cookies that our children ever made, they were DELICIOUS, the children enjoyed making them, and they really got a kick out of putting potato chips in the cookies.
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