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Popcorn Cookies

August 26, 2012 by 11 Comments

A few weeks ago I discovered the wonder that is chocolate dipped potato chip cookies, and after falling head over heels for those I immediately started rifling through my snack cupboard to see what other snack foods I could bake into cookies.  And while snack foods come and snack foods go in my house, one thing I always, always, always have on hand is popcorn.  The kernels, not the stuff in the bag…real, honest to goodness old-fangled popcorn.  And so I thought….popcorn cookies!

Because I am all about the sweet and salty anything and everything.  I’m also happy to mix up popcorn with just about anything…I drop it into soup, I mix it up with caramel and bacon (of course), and I am perfectly happy just popping up a big mess of it and eating it with a little drizzle of butter and salt.  So once the lightbulb went off, it made perfect sense the popcorn and chocolate cookies could be best friends.

So here’s how this goes: you start with a basic light chocolate chip cookie dough…but when it comes to the part where you stir in the chips, you are also going to stir in some popcorn.  You need to pop your own (and if you have never done this, it’s as easy as putting about a 1/4 cup of popcorn in a plain old brown paper lunch bag, rolling the top down and microwaving it for about 2 minutes.  You’ll never buy those chemical-infused expensive microwave popcorn bags again!)  Once your popcorn is popped, salt it a little – no butter though – and crush it just a little in your hands.  Once the cookies are done, they are a perfect mix of sweet chocolate, salty-crunchy popcorn and cookie.  Light and sweet and scrumptious.

Clearly I need to figure out a cookie version of pretzels.  They are up there in my snack cabinet as we speak feeling all left out.

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Popcorn Cookies

Yield: About 25-30 cookies

Popcorn Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 cup soft butter
1 cup suagr
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cupsflour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups popcorn, crushed just a little. (Make sure you pick through the popcorn to make sure there are no hard little unpopped kernels hiding in there!)
1 cup chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy and pale, about 2 minutes. Add egg and vanilla and beat until well-combined.
2. In a smaller bowl, mix together flour, baking soda and salt. Add slowly to the butter mixture, making sure the flour gets fully combined (scrape the bottom of the bowl to be sure).
3. Stir the chocolate chips and the popcorn in carefully. Using a cookie scoop, drop tablespoons of dough onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet, spacing the cookies about 2 inches apart. Bake for about 12-14 minutes or until lightly golden.
4. Cool for 5 minutes on the cookie sheet and then remove to rack to cool completely.

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  1. Poetesswug says:
    August 26, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    That “IS” a good idea!!!….What took you so long?! ^_^

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  2. Candice@NotesFromABroad says:
    August 26, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    Hi, do you pick through the popcorn that you will use in the dough and be sure there is no un-popped corn surprise to break a tooth on ? I think I have to try the potato chips and chocolate this week. I think it is a brilliant way to get both my sweet and my salty at one bite, thank you for that , lol .

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    • Kate says:
      August 26, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      That is SUCH a good point – I absolutely did, and I am going to add that important note to the recipe. Thank you! :)

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  3. Joanne says:
    August 27, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    You are the sweet and salty cookie queen! I’m thinking for pretzels…salted caramel needs to be involved. Just saying.

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  4. tom Gilley says:
    August 27, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    This is an awesome idea. I love the look of these cookies too. The popcorn doesn’t brown/burn at all?

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    • Kate says:
      August 29, 2012 at 8:42 am

      It gets a tiny bit golden here and there on the edges, but it didn’t burn at all. I’d keep an eye on things in general if your oven runs hot, but I had no problem with the popcorn. :)

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  5. aslı says:
    September 6, 2012 at 11:14 am

    i like popcorn and i like cookies. and i like ur idea. interesting…

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  6. ruthie says:
    February 8, 2013 at 6:58 pm

    I bought a delicious candy bar from a lady on Etsy who makes all her own candies. It was very like a Snickers (only better), and along with the peanuts in the caramel, there were crushed pretzels — so peanut-y caramel and crushed pretzels, all enrobed in a thick chocolate coating. OMG!

    Inspiration enough for you? I bet it is. ;)

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