Best Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies

These Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies are the ultimate holiday treat, packed with a delicious combination of sweet and salty flavors! With crunchy pretzels, crispy potato chips, colorful M&M’s, creamy white chocolate chips, and festive sprinkles, these cookies are completely customizable to suit your favorite mix-ins. They’re soft, chewy, and make the perfect addition to your holiday cookie platter.

What You’ll Love About These Cookies:

• Sweet & Salty: A perfect blend of sweet M&M’s, white chocolate chips, and salty pretzels and potato chips.
• Festive & Fun: Red and green M&M’s and holiday sprinkles add a fun, colorful twist to your Christmas cookies.
• Customizable: Add your own favorite mix-ins, from chocolate chips to nuts or candy bars.
• No Mixer Needed: Easy to make in just one bowl—no mixer required!

Ingredients:

• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda, baking powder, and salt
• Unsalted butter
• Dark brown sugar and white granulated sugar
• Eggs and vanilla extract
• M&M’s (red and green for a festive touch)
• White chocolate chips
• Pretzels, potato chips, and holiday sprinkles

Instructions:

1. Melt the butter: Let it cool to room temperature.
2. Mix dry ingredients: Whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
3. Combine wet ingredients: Whisk melted butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla.
4. Add dry ingredients: Mix in the dry ingredients until combined.
5. Stir in mix-ins: Add M&M’s, white chocolate chips, pretzels, crushed potato chips, and sprinkles.
6. Scoop dough: Use an ice cream scoop to form cookie dough balls and place them on a baking sheet.
7. Chill dough: Refrigerate the dough for an hour (or freeze for 30 minutes).
8. Bake: Preheat the oven to 350°F and bake the cookies for 13-15 minutes.
9. Shape and cool: Once baked, use a cookie cutter to shape the cookies and add more toppings.

Baking Tips:

• Make sure to measure your flour properly to avoid cookies that don’t spread.
• Top your cookies with extra mix-ins while they’re still warm for the best look.

These cookies are perfect for your holiday gatherings or as a sweet gift for friends and family. Enjoy this sweet and salty treat that’s full of festive flavor!

Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 8 oz unsalted butter, melted and cooled
• 1 ¼ cups dark brown sugar
• ¾ cup white granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs, room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup red and green M&M’s (plus more for topping)
• ½ cup white chocolate chips (plus more for topping)
• ½ cup pretzels, broken into small pieces (plus more for topping)
• ⅓ cup salted potato chips, crushed (plus more for topping)
• 2 tbsp holiday sprinkles (jimmies work best)

Instructions:

1. Melt butter and let it cool to room temperature.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
3. In another bowl, whisk together melted butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Add eggs and vanilla extract and mix well.
4. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix with a rubber spatula until combined.
5. Stir in M&M’s, white chocolate chips, pretzels, potato chips, and holiday sprinkles.
6. Use a 1 ½ oz ice cream scoop to scoop cookie dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
7. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour (or freeze for 30 minutes).
8. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Place 6 cookie dough balls on a baking sheet and bake for 13-15 minutes, turning the sheet halfway through baking.
9. Once baked, use a large cookie cutter to “scoot” the cookies into a perfect round shape while still warm. Add additional mix-ins on top if desired.

Enjoy your festive Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies!