Caramel Potato Chip Cookies: Sweet + Salty

A little bit of sweet, a little salty, and a bit of crunchiness are what you’ll experience when you bite into caramel potato chip cookies!

Get ready for bold-tasting, savvy and simple ingredient cookies made from potato chips!

Caramel Potato Chip Cookies

Any foodie will tell you that you want to use all and everything you’ve got when it comes to recipe creation.

Or maybe you have heard that being inventive in the kitchen is so much more rewarding than going out and buying food or baked goods?

Baking at home is the new frontier for many and ingredients that propel the taste are not limited to flour, sugar and butter.

I will tell you that as far back as I can remember, these were made in my home to fulfill a purpose.

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Did You Know Cookies Made From Potato Chips Serve A Purpose?

Do you know why I made these cookies?

I will tell you the answer, through a short story.

What starts out as a great big bag of plain, salted, crunchy potato chips ends up being crunched, chomped and chomped and crunched or inhaled some more!

As you consume the big chips, all those crumbs fall into the depths of the potato chip bag.

At some point, your hand searches the dark interior of that potato chip bag, and while your mouth is waiting for more you can only locate potato chip crumbs.

How Do You Get To The Potato Chip Crumbs in Your Bag?

If you are anything like me, I’ll bet you do one of the following to access those potato chip crumbs fellow foodie:

• make a funnel out of one corner of the bag and tip your head back and hope that the crumbs make a slam dunk in your mouth
• or of course you can lick your finger and hope that the crumbs stick little by little and as you eat them this way you lose more than you gain into your mouth!
• BUT there is choice number three: use those resulting crumbs as part of the caramel potato chip cookies recipe!

I Gave My Mom’s Recipe A Sweet Upgrade

These cookies appeared in my mom’s kitchen quite a bit, but I’ve given them a generous upgrade.

When my mom made them, they were just straight up potato chip crumbs.

She made them so we would stop funneling the bag, missing our mouth and hitting the floor with spills. Or maybe she made them so that the roofs of our mouths wouldn’t get cut up from all the tiny nasty crumbs?

My upgrade includes little caramel balls that really add the sweet into the recipe without having to increase the plain white sugar amount.

After all, caramel is always good when it is combined with something salty right?

My new spin on the recipe offers caramel potato chips cookies not just potato chips!

Sweet and salty cookies satisfy your quest for something sweet and well, salty!

Caution: Potato Chip Cookies Can Be Addictive

I titled that as though it is a bad thing, but oh for the love of chips these are literally smashing YUM!

Caution, really tasty recipe ahead and you just might start getting more excited about the caramel potatoes chip cookies than the actual bag of chips itself!

I want to share some insight with you on these cookies to help you make them even better than they are!

Tips for making caramel potato chip cookies

You are not locked into 1 flavor of chip, feel free to roam and change after all, variety is the spice of life!

• collect a few bags of crumbs to make a bigger batch.
• store crumbs in an airtight bag or container you don’t want them to turn rancid.
• you can use bbq flavor and if you do I suggest adding a little honey to the recipe (just a tablespoon or so)
• for those of you who want to use a sourcream flavored chip, you’ll want to counter it with some sliced almonds and a zest of lime.
• potato chips cookies with caramel are yummy when they have a little chocolate added as well (I’ll share more below on this)

So to review, tossing potato chip crumbs away is a foodie sin, don’t commit that!

I really believe a true foodie developed the recipe long ago, and that it evolved from the the old adage of, ‘waste not, want not?’

Yep, you knew I was going to tell you that really yummy sweet and salty caramel potato chip cookies happen when potato chip bags have just crumbs left.

The Cookies Will Just Disappear

I’ve got to admit that I think it is my obsession with potato chips mixed in with anything that allowed me to strike potato chip gold with this recipe.

But what’s funnier is that as soon as I make these, they suddenly go missing.

What I have learned is to double up the batch and then watch them disappear.

I am assured that anytime I make sweet and salty caramel potato chip cookies they will disappear faster than a blink of an eye and someone new is always inducted into the I love potato chip cookies with caramel group!

Salty caramel cookies made from potato chips are easy

Buttery, savory, sweet, salty, crunchy, crisp all are words that would describe a bite of one, depending on what part of the cookie you bite into.

The ingredients include items such as flour, sugar, chips, eggs, butter and nothing much more complicated.

Mixing a batch of the cookies up doesn’t take long and it’s hard to mess this straightforward recipe up.

I think the hardest part of the recipe is waiting for the caramel potato chip cookies to cool so that we can enjoy them!

Not only do they taste yummy, they smell pretty darn good to when they are baking!

When Is The Best Time To Make Salty Caramel Potato Chip Cookies?

Often I post a recipe and then I get an email from one of my readers (all of you).

The question I get asked the most is this, “what season do you think this recipe is best for?”

So, outside of an official sleigh-shaped or Santa cutout cookie, I believe any cookie can be made any time of the year.

However, this cookie does carry a caveat clause with it.

The cookies made from potato chips need to be made anytime there is a bag of chips with only crumbs left in it!

Don’t toss those chips out, use them.

These cookies are the perfect solution to chips bags with morsels after any holiday gathering or party.

Additionally, these are great when you finicky kids who refuse to finish ‘crumbies.’

Yep, you win that battle, lol!

Try a Cinnamon Danish Apple Pie with Pretzel Topping, it’s sweet and salty too!

Best Baking Pan For Cookie Recipes

Every time I bake, I use my 360 Bakeware cookie pans, because the cookies turn out perfect always.

These are incredible stainless steel pans, and I suggest gifting yourself a few.

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Your Sweet and Salty Cookies Play Nice With Chocolate

Let’s just say that adding chocolate drizzle or dipping these cookies into chocolate is a trifecta of YUM!

Once baked, and cooled, dip one end of your potato chip cookie with caramel in melted chocolate (white or dark) and stripe with more caramel.

Alternatively, you could sprinkle the caramel potato chip cookies with confectioner’s sugar, once cooled.

Or, if you want to get crazy and amp up the taste, add cinnamon to the batter.

Change the recipe, add in coconut, raisins, some oatmeal, and sunflower seeds, or leave it as it is.

These Cookies Are The Solution To Potato Chip Crumbs

You’ll find that this recipe uses minimal ingredients and you probably have most of what you need in your pantry now!

Potato Chip Cookies with Caramel ↓↓