Sometimes I belabor a recipe. Wrestling with the nooks and crannies of ratios, applying different methods, waiting for the ah-ha moment. And then, there are those times when I whip up a batch of Kitchen Sink Cookies and I think, “why haven’t I put these on the bog yet?”. I hope by now you’ve pieced together what kind of recipe today is.
Because we all need that throw-together-cookie-recipe. It’s a baseline for all good things. Because we should all have room temperature butter on the counter at all times. We should always have a pantry filled with brown sugar, granulated sugar, and a healthy amount of all-purpose flour. It goes without saying that some kind of chocolate shouldn’t be missed on the grocery list. Whether in chip form or not, it’s a staple item.
But, there are also those times when you have a half bag of heath chips in the corner of the cupboard from that one time you made a recipe on a whim. Or when you have that ziplock of m&m’s that are just waiting for a cause. A 100-calorie snack pack of pretzels, maybe? I know you have some sliced almonds that are a few months away from expiring. I feel like they’re always threatening me like that.
The point is, if you have some things that don’t quite have a purpose in your pantry, I offer to you – The Kitchen Sink Cookie. Whip up an easy batter, add in about 1 ¼ cups of things-that-need-a-purpose and there ya have it! I’d recommend that at least ½ cup of those things are chocolate, but that is maybe just my preferences speaking. Anything goes here.
Everything but the kitchen sink add-ins:
Chocolate chips
White chocolate chips Chocolate bar chopped
Nuts like peanuts, almonds, walnuts etc.
Heath
Malt balls
Sprinkles
Pretzels
Mini candy bars from Halloween
Caramels
Marshmallow – why not?
Butterscotch chips
Gumdrops – Oh! Remember when we did that?
Ritz crackers
Granola – haven’t tried it but – yeah!
Dried fruit
… just not the kitchen sink, ukay?
Kitchen Sink Cookies
Soft and buttery cookies filled with anything you want
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 18 cookies 1x
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, room temp
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg, room temp
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 1/4 cup add-ins like chocolate chips, peanuts, crunched pretzels, sprinkles etc.
*optional* Honey and flaked sea salt for topping
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl with a hand mixer (or standing mixer) cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla together until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and beat just until combined. Add in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Mix until a uniform batter appears. Fold in your preferred add-ins.
Scoop out 2 tablespoons of dough and place on a baking sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake in the preheated oven on the center rack for 8-10 minutes. Just until the dough is no longer shiny. Let sit on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes before moving to a cooling wrack.
*optional* drizzle with honey and top with sea salt.
Keywords: cookies, kitchen sink, everything cookies
I love the honey and sea salt addition at the end. Yum and YUM!
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YAY! Thank you, Kathleen!