Halloween Candy Cookies

By Christie

Here’s some recycling you’ll like—post-Halloween cookies. Chop up the candies and tuck the pieces into cookie dough in lieu of chocolate chips. Almost any candy will work—Butterfingers, Heath Bars, Milky Ways, Snickers, Kit Kats, Mand even Twizzlers, gum drops, and jelly beans. Standard chocolate chip cookies become immensely more interesting, and the kids will have fun guessing what bits of candy are hidden within. Freeze the dough to stretch out the fun (calories)

Per cookie (using jelly beans): 100 calories, 4g fat, 20mg chol., 1g prot., 17g carbs., 0g fiber, 120mg sodium.

Ingredients

• 3 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
• 1 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• cups 2 to 3 cups chopped candy bits
• (such as Butterfingers, Baby
• Ruths, Heath Bars, Reese’s
• Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers,
• jelly beans, M&Ms, Lifesavers)

Preparation

Step 1

1. Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
2. Beat butter and sugars together with a mixer until very light, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture and mix just until combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Stir in candy bits.
3. Preheat oven to 350F.
4. Drop dough by tablespoons onto baking sheet. Bake 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.