Potato Chip Cookies

Ouisey's Note:

The saltiness of the chips gives these cookies a unique flavor. I'm guessing at the number of cookies it made, but I honestly don't remember--it could be more than 2 dozen.

• Total Time: 38 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 18 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 24

• ½ cup crushed potato chip
• 1 ½ cups flour
• ½ cup finely ground pecans
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup margarine , softened
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• confectioners' sugar

Directions:

1. Combine chips, pecans and flour.
2. In another bowl, cream margarine and sugar.
3. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla.
4. Add dry ingredients until well mixed.
5. With damp hands, form dough into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheets.
6. Bake 15-18 minutes at 350°F or until cookies just begin to color.
7. Cool slightly and roll in 10X sugar.

Reviews

[NorthwestGal]

These are soft cookies with a slight salty undertone but still sweet enough to be a treat. My problem is that the dough was so grainy that I had a hard time getting the cookies to hold their shape long enough to bake. I'm not sure if I missed a crucial ingredient, or what. But I did get about 1/3 of the batch to shape into cookies, and they went pretty fast with my kids. Made for Spring 2010 Pick-A-Chef.

[Baby Kato]

Thanks for sharing this tasty recipe Ouisey...I made these for a party recently and everyone raved over them. I used ground almonds instead of ground pecans and added 1/3 cup of flaked coconut. They had a nice flavour and were crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside. The icing sugar tops it off perfectly.