Clean The Pantry Cookies
Posted by Donna-Marie Pye on
If it's time to spring clean your pantry, these Clean-The-Cupboard cookies are sweet & salty, and loaded with so many delicious things. They are ideal if you have half bags of chocolate chips*, coconut, cereal, dried fruit even hidden Halloween candy.
Ingredients..
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp Neilson-Massey vanilla
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups quick oats
- 1 cup rice krispie cereal (or other crispy cereal)**
- 1/2 cup butterscotch chips
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup coconut
- 1/2 cup mini M&M's
Method...
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or a baking sheet liner.
- In the bowl of an electric mixture, cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
- Add salt, baking soda and flour, and mix until combined. Remove mixer, add oats and stir by hand until well combined. Add cereal, chips, coconut and M&M's and stir by hand until combined.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, place on baking sheet, leaving about 1-inch between cookies (about 12 cookies per sheet). Gently press the tops of the cookies with the palm of your hand.
- Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes (they may look a little underbaked). Remove from the oven and allow cookies to sit on baking sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a baking rack and cool completely.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies
Chef DM's Baking Tips:
- If you have chocolate bars in your pantry, chop them up in place of chocolate chips.
- You can substitute any crispy flake cereal for Rice Krispies. Just break them up with your hands a little before adding to the cookie batter.
- This is a really thick dough and these cookies do not flatten out very much at all. You can tap the cookie sheet on the counter to flatten them slightly if you’d like.
- Be sure not to over bake these, they will look a little under-baked when you take them out of the oven.
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