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!
You are so much fun Averie! It is a crazy baking, I totally agree! And you are a star! :) Have a lovely weekend!
I’m glad you think of it as fun. ME too!!
Yayyy, I love crazy recipes! I love the idea of potato chips & cap’n crunch. And I’m interested to see how the coffee played a role. I think the weirdest recipe I’ve ever made are the Dorito’s brownies I did a few months ago. We were just talking about another Dorito’s idea tonight too, it’s even crazier :)
Your Doritos Bronwnies. I remember them well!! Right around the time you posted yours, Deb/Smitten had just posted the potato chip cookeis, and I think Kris/Spabettie posted something with chips around then…can’t wait to see what else you make!
Hi Averie! So glad I came across your blog! I actually recognized the mall in the Thursday post – I live in San Diego as well and not far from Fashion Valley!
Looks like I found a new blog to come to when looking for a special treat!
Oh wow, it’s nice to “meet” another San Diegan! Keep in touch and do you know about this event?
https://www.loveveggiesandyoga.com/2012/04/food-blogger-bake-sale.html
I didn’t know about this actually – thanks for sharing! It’s nice to “meet” you as well!
Hey Averie,
I have nominated you for a blogger award. Because I truly enjoy reading your posts and I find your no fuss approach to things very refreshing, like you will make cookies with crazy ingredients like potato chips or breakfast cereal (maybe bacon is next?) and not just the newest health craze ingredient on the block. Love your adventurous spirit when it comes to food! Here is more info on the award
Thanks so much for the nomination and the compliments! I really appreciate it!! :) Thanks for reading!
Haha! I love it. Yes that is some crazy but delicious looking BAKING. :) Yum for sure!
Crazy is good sometimes :)
You’ve done it again…the food photos have my mouth watering! The french toast sweet potatoes are so intriguing- will have to try…
Can’t wait for the big reveal. I’ll consider it good luck that you made the recipe in the kitchen aid—fingers crossed!
Can’t think of anything too weird off the top of my head…then again I make an “everything but the kitchen sink” smoothie (works well to counter the sweets) kale, avocado, cucumber, apple, nut milk…and so on…crazy counterpart to whatever you and Ms. Tosi got goin’ on up there!
Glad the photos have your mouth watering. I was sure I was going to catch some flak for it, like ohmygod I can’t believe she made that…but I assure you, they are wonderful :) Your smoothie sounds perfect and a great way to use up the odds and ends!
I’m going to take a guess and say…compost cookies?! My sister made those for my mom’s birthday party a few weeks ago and I’m fairly certain that I ate 10 of them (even though they are, in fact, as big as my face…)
you are 100% right :)
they are HUGE, you’re right about that, too. Did your sis follow the C. Tosi recipe in the Momofuku cookbook or just ad-libbed and came up with her own?
How fun! I always like trying recipes that are outside my usual “box”. I had a crazy kitchen day today PERIOD. I baked 4 dozen cookies and made 10 lbs of meatballs. We’re having a ball themed party tomorrow :)
you’re a Saint b/c you don’t even eat meatballs!
This is hilarious! But when I lived in HI, Phil’s daughter and her husband would always buy this chocolate with mac nuts and potato chips in it when they came to visit–I replicated it for them a couple Christmases ago and they adored it. Full of ingredients I would _never_ eat, but I had a bite and even I had to admit it was addictive, that sweet/salty combination…
I have the weirdest combinations–like my recent brownie bites based on carrot pulp, peas in my smoothies, grated apple and thawed green beans for lunch… Someone just gave Phil some chocolate covered sunflower seeds, and that sounds absolutely repulsive to me–sunflowers are savory! When people put cheese on sweet things like fruit, I think it’s pretty disgusting too…
chocolate with mac nuts and potato chips = trader joes had choc-covered potato chips for awhile and they also sell chocolate covered sunflower seeds and there are a couple bloggers who’s cookies that use those are re-pinned and on the foodie sites and very well loved. Most people seem to love them! I am take it or leave it with most seeds and nuts, in general but choc-covered anything is always a win for me.
The “weirdest” thing I’ve eaten is sweet pickle and peanut butter sandwiches. Everyone I know says that it sounds disgusting. But, sweet jelly with peanut butter is fine? C’mon, it’s good! The worst I ever saw was my brother who used to eat his chocolate ice cream by scooping it up with nacho cheese Doritos. Blech.
sweet pickle and peanut butter sandwiches = okay that takes the cake for a weird one but I am proud of you for eating what you love and not being shy to mention it!
That is some crazy baking!!!
I like all the ingredients though.. I bet it turned out great :D
I like to put Natto (Japanese fermented soybeans) into things like curry, on a toast, etc… It’s definitely an acquired taste, my husband tried it once and just said “interesting” lol
I was watching an old episode of Top Chef or Chopped I think it was and one of the mandatory ingredients the other day was…Natto!
I love a sweet and salty combination, and have a potato chip cookie I’ve been wanting to make for a bit – my best friend’s mom made them all the time when we were kids, and I LOVED them!
I just mentioned your potato chip cookies to another commenter (Liz) who made Doritos Brownies…and you with the beans-in-desserts…you still have me (almost) tempted :)
I love trying out crazy ingredients!! My favorite recipe that I’ve done is the avocado pudding. I love that stuff, but when I first heard of it I was skeptical. Trying the crazy stuff is often how you find the BEST recipes!
Yes you HAVE to try and people who turn up their noses before even trying, well, they shouldn’t ever judge a book by it’s cover, right! :)
Ohh how I would have loved to be in the kitchen while you were making those, I would have been your number one taste tester! :)
Glad to hear that..and I want to cook and take pics with you one day. Your pics are always STUNNING!
xo
Hahaha…damn. I kind of wish I were still pregnant so that I’d have an excuse to eat about a dozen of these :-)
Thanks for your sweet comment on my blog– we’re working through the feeding issues, but it’s nice to feel the support from the blog world :-)
Girl I understand and have been there. It’s HARD. Just take it a day at a time and don’t ever quit cold turkey in the middle of the night at 3am. It will be better in the morning and it DOES get easier with each passing day. There’s a group on yahoogroups called pumpmoms. Join it. It was invaluable to me!!!!
Throw some bacon in there, and you’ll have added all the trendy crazy baking ingredients into a single cookie. I’m not really into potato chips, so I’m not sure how I’d feel about these, but I’m all about wacky ingredients.
Curry and banana are agreat combo, too (read the comment above). I used to make a sauce for stir fry with that. I’ve also made curry ketchup = delicious! I know you aren’t a huge curry fan though.
I know, bacon is ALL the rage….in everything, including marshmallows and cookie dough. You would LOVE these. Omg. They are not super sweet, they have coffee in them and the flavors just work!