We’re all familiar with the expression Crazy Making.
This is Crazy Baking.
A few of the ingredients that went into this dough included coffee grounds, potato chips, butterscotch chips, and I threw in some Cap’n Crunch for good measure.
I followed a recipe from Christina Tosi (95% of the way) for this baking project so don’t cry any potato-chips-in-your-cookies tears to me.
It wasn’t my idea; it was hers.
I’ve actually been wanting to make cookies with potato chips in them for ages and didn’t realize how “trendy” they were until I started seeing them pop up on Pinterest and if you google potato chip cookies, there’s plenty of recipes. That guy you may have heard who has many books and cooking shows has done it and so has she.
However, they didn’t pair coffee grounds with their potato chip-infused dough.
The recipe just kept getting weirder. And that’s okay. The results proved successful.
Stay tuned for the recipe and full review.
I made these in the red KitchenAid 7-Quart Stand Mixer I’m giving away
I also made a batch of more “normal” cookies. No potato chips, but plenty of peanut butter.
Puffy Vanilla and Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Have you ever put anything “crazy” into a recipe or made anything “weird”?
We all have different definitions of “crazy” and “weird”. For example, I can eat hot pepper jelly by the spoonful and it’s very hot hot pepper jelly; hot enough to make even me sweat and most people would be calling the fire department. But to me, hot pepper jelly is so good, not crazy.
Most people “love” garlic and onions; that is crazy to me because I hate them.
Adding a couple tablespoons of brewed coffee to brownie batter intensifies the chocolate and doesn’t make brownies taste like coffee; it just makes them taste richer, deeper, better, and not at all weird.
I’ve heard many people make chili with molasses or a pinch of cocoa powder with excellent results.
I turned sweet potatoes into Sweet Potato Graham Cracker “French Toast” Sticks. For all you sweet potato fans, this one’s for you. Tubers turned into candy. Weird? No. Delicious.
And I’ve turned beans into pseudo honey roasted “peanuts” in Carmelized Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Chickpea “Peanuts”. I have to stop myself from eating a tray fresh from the oven all at once they’re so good because I don’t need quite that much fiber in my diet.
Chocolate Mousse – (Raw, Vegan, Gluten Free) An amazing, decadent mousse, and made with a secret ingredient, which no one ever guesses.
Nutritional yeast on popcorn with cocoa or protein powder is another good one that some people may find a bit weird, but I love it.
Certain items for one person may seem crazy or weird, and for another, it’s their normal. Eating animals, or certain parts of an animal (liver, brain, intestines), eating certain vegetables and fruits, combining ingredients that aren’t typically paired; depending on what part of the world you’re from, what cookbooks or Pinterest boards or blogs you tend to read, one person’s weird and crazy is another person’s I’ll have seconds, please. How bout those potato chips.
Have you tried any “crazy” ingredients, combinations, or “weird” recipes? What were they and did you like it? What or whom inspired you to make it?
There’s only so many times one can pair chocolate and peanut butter butter before it’s time to pair chocolate with avocado or chocolate kale chips. I take that back, one can indefinitely pair chocolate with peanut butter.
The winner of the Tofu Xpress Tofu Press Giveaway is JulieD
Thanks for the continued KitchenAid 7-Quart Stand Mixer Giveaway entries
Have a great weekend!
My mom made potato chip cookies for years! I looked online for a similar recipe but couldn’t find one. It basically was a buttery sugar cookie (a sugary butter cookie?) dough, shaped into a log, rolled in crushed potato chips and sliced into cookies. I’ll have to search her old cookbooks to see if I can find the recipe!
Ever since I was little I enjoyed dipping potato chips in vanilla ice cream! Don’t know why, but it just WORKS! yummm.
Omg that sounds FABULOUS! If you ever find the recipe, lmk but I can imagine it well and could doctor up a logged-sugar cookie recipe. Roll ‘n dip in the chips crumbs. YUM! She was onto something before it became “trendy” :)
So fun, I love experimenting with unique flavor combos for unexpected surprises, like pairing spicy with dark chocolate or fruit in a savory stir fry. One of my faves is curry and banana together.
Curry & banana…that sounds like it could become the base of an Indian dessert with so many options to go in from coconut rice, banana & curry pudding to a bread or naan with those flavors…see, my brain is always going :)
I love trying unique/”weird” combinations in baking and cooking. Most of the time I have the attitude that even though some ingredients don’t seem to “fit” together, the combo intrigues me so I just HAVE to try it. A couple of firsts for me include the choc avocado mousse and the addition of a little nooch in the filling of homemade PB cups (can’t thank you enough for that one–it really does add the perfect subtle flavor to the PB )!
Glad you have tried nooch in the PB cups; I think it definitely adds something, too. Flavor, authenticity in texture, just overall it “works” I think!
Someone baked potato chip cookies for one of my classes in high school a few years ago, they are surprisingly delicious and play off that whole sweet/salty thing. And the coffee and brownie trick is awesome, my mom had been doing that for a while and it makes the brownies taste so much better. But I love coffee, so I think it makes everything taste better!
My family thinks all the things I cook are weird. I like eating baked sweet potatoes with peanut butter and cocoa powder, which sounds weird but is very delicious, but my family tells me it looks like cat barf.
Oh your potatoes sound great to me! I think PB compliments most any food, of course, though :)
Weird can be oh so good ;-)
This IS crazy baking!
That is crazy fun! You are unreal what all you can do
Well, you just have to take some risks sometimes, right? :)
I don’t really do ‘weird’ (well I do loooove onions and garlic so weird to you! ;) ) but this combo has me intrigued. Except the coffee, neither of us would touch them with that in there…I know, THAT is weird!
it may be crazy but i bet it tastes crazy good!! love the potato chip butterscotch addition!!
That combo potato chip/butterscotch in terms of both textures and flavors, is particularly yummy!
I’m all about crazy ingredient combos! Especially at breakfast (see: breakfast salads). These all look genius to me.
Many of the things that people put in their juicers or blenders, i.e. green smoothies, would get a raised eyebrow but you and I know that a little kale in a smoothie never hurt anyone :)
That chocolate mousse made me want to dip a spoon right into my screen!! Yum.
I would say the oddest combination I’ve used is black beans in brownies rather than flour. They come out nicely and you can’t taste the beany flavour. I’m definitely curious about the potato chip thing now!
I am one of the last people who hasn’t tried the beans-in-desserts trend. I always worry that the dessert will taste like beans but I just have to try it!
I’m going to have to get in on that chocolate mousse. Chocolate has been my stress reducer this week, but it’s been waaay too much in the form of leftover Easter candy.
When I first started baking vegan, I thought it was totally weird to add vinegar in the recipe – I thought it would taste horrible! But now I know it’s an important part of the chemistry of vegan baking :)
vinegar is one of my fave things! And the acid/base reactions that can happen in any kind of cooking really are always intriguing to me!
Glad I found your blog. I love your thinking behind all of your recipe ideas, hey if it dosen’t work then no biggie right? Just try, try again and as food bloggers we don’t need to be asked twice to bake something :)
Take care…
Thanks for saying hi and taking some culinary risks is necessary! The worst than can happen is $5 dollars worth of ingredients are wasted but I am cheap and try to salvage even the almost-flops! :)
I’m so freakin’ excited!!! Thank you so much! I actually just posted a tofu recipe. :D Happy Friday to you!!
I just emailed my contact your info so happy pressing :)
I meant to add a drop of almond extract to my protein shake and accidentally added lemon extract. Brilliant. So good. I never would have thought that would be and I am not sure if lemon juice would be good with chocolate but lemon extract almond added something sweet yet refreshing…
lemon and chocolate, now that’s a new one to me but fancy choclatiers sell orange and raspberry truffles and candies at a pretty penny, so why not lemon! :)
That is pretty crazy! I have been seeing baked goods getting insane lately. It seems fusion baking is the newest trend. Just throw in the everything and the kitchen sink and it’s bound to be tasty if it’s sweet and/or salty. :)
Potato chips + chocolate already appeals to me; sweet and salty is SO GOOD!
Based on what I know you like, you would LOVE these cookies..stay tuned :)