Referral Baking # 1

Usually after all of the baking I do for Christmas I am over baking for a good long time.  That hasn’t happened this year ~ for some strange reason.  I am still baking.  When trying to think of an excuse to bake – I know who needs and excuse – but it helps me feel a lot little less guilty!  Anyway, being that referrals came out this week I was reminded of when Lisa over at Tate R Bug used to have referral baking posts.  I really enjoyed her baking posts, so I think I am going to try that for a while.  I hope you don’t mind if I copy your idea Lisa. 

I had a plan, now I needed a recipe.  I have become addicted to cooking blogs.  I had NO idea there were so many out there.  I was searching through a few sites looking for something that said ‘BAKE ME’.

With the roller coaster ride of rumors this week my friends have really been on my mind a lot.  Especially:

So when I saw a recipe for Potato Chip Cookies I thought how perfect.  You see Special K introduced chocolate covered potato chips to the group last year.  They are amazing.  When I saw this recipe I thought of Special K and all of my buds.  I continued to look for a few days, but kept coming back to the potato chip cookies.  I was afraid that my family wouldn’t care for them.  Nothing else said “Bake Me” so I decided to give them a try.

It was simple enough ~ almost too simple. The recipe doesn’t call for it, but I knew I needed to add chocolate.  I thought about adding chocolate chips to the batter, but decided to drizzle them with chocolate.

The cookies have a crisp buttery slightly sweet texture, then add the saltiness of the potato chips with the hint of chocolate ~ Yum!!  I didn’t think Big Bear would like these because he does not really care for potato chips.  I was wrong.  He loves them.  

Girls, guess what I will be bringing to our next get-together?!?!!

The recipe is from Baking Bites.  LOVE this site.

Potato Chip Cookies

2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 cups crushed potato chips

6 oz. chocolate chips, melted

Preheat oven to 350F.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy, then beat in the egg.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt, then stir into butter mixture. Stir in potato chips.

Drop tablespoonfuls (1-inch balls) of dough onto prepared baking sheet, leaving about 2-inches between each cookie to allow room to spread.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, until light golden.

Cool completely on a wire.

Place melted chocolate chips in a Ziploc bag.  Drizzle over cooled cookies.

Store cookies in an airtight container.

Makes about 3 1/2 dozen cookies