Potato Chip Cookies – Can't Stay Out of the Kitchen (2024)

Potato Chip Cookies are one of our very favorite cookies. We have made these delightful cookies almost every year for our Christmas Cookie Extravaganza for the past 30+ years. People try them and ask us, “Potato chips? Seriously?” Yes, we assure them.

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These amazing cookies are so, so easy to make, quick to assemble, not to mention, economical. If you didn’t know you were eating a potato chip cookie, 99 times out of a 100 you could not tell me potato chips are even in the list of ingredients. These cookies are fantastic! And, since the ingredients are different than Mimi’s Potato Chip Cookies which I posted a couple of days ago, they get there very own post, too!

Every time we make these cookies we make believers out of people! Those who turn up their noses at the name, are fully persuaded once they actually taste this delicious concoction. The best way I can describe them is probably like a sugar cookie. Most people mistake the potato chips for nuts, but this recipe has no nuts in it. And get this–only 5 ingredients! When I say FAST, I mean you can have this cookie made and on your table in about 30 minutes!

I got this recipe from Annie White when we worked together at Eckerd Photo Lab in 1979. She brought these in to the customer service office one day. After trying one, I was soon infatuated with this cookie. I quickly got the recipe and have been making them ever since.

I will admit to fooling around with this recipe a little. Mimi’s Potato Chip Cookies have a fabulous texture and needed no improvement. But this one I’ve tried to find the right balance on the butter. The original recipe calls for 4 sticks of butter.

If you use 4 sticks of butter the cookie tends to run too much on the cookie sheet and flatten out. Annie had a note that she used 3 sticks of butter. When you try it with 3 sticks of butter the cookies don’t flatten at all and stay in ball shapes. They also tend to be a little hard. I’ve settled on 3 1/2 sticks of butter as a happy medium between the two. They turn out just about perfect that way.

If you’re trying to use up an old bag of potato chips you should entertain the prospect of making a batch of these wonderful cookies. I’m not exaggerating when I say they’re terrific. I hope you enjoy this simple, yet incredibly tasty cookie. Our family sure has over the years.

When I originally posted this recipe in December 2012, my pictures were taken indoors with very poor lighting. The result was cookies that didn’t look as appetizing as they should. These new pictures (January 2015) don’t reflect the holiday decorations like the initial batch. Yet they still depict the cookies in a better light so you can see what they’re really supposed to look like.

Potato Chip Cookies will knock your socks off! Give ’em a try and your family will soon be converted too!

When you ask friends to sample a Potato Chip Cookie and tell you what the secret ingredient is inside, no one is able to guess potato chips on the first guess!

This simple cookie is so delicious. You will hardly believe it only has 5 ingredients.

You can whip out a bucket of Potato Chip Cookiesin no time.These tasty treatsare so yummy. You will wonder why you’ve never heard of these cookies before or never tried them.

Here’s what I did.

I used these ingredients.

Place 3 1/2 sticks softened butter in mixing bowl. Cream the butter with an electric mixer.

Add vanilla and sugar.

Cream together again with an electric mixer.

You will need plain potato chips. Any brand will do but a smooth finish works a little better than potato chips with ridges or waves. I also would NOT use any flavored potato chips. I’m not that brave!

Crush potato chips. I just do it with my hands. It takes all of about 2 minutes.Add UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour. Bleached flour toughens cookies. Add crushed potato chips.

Stir flour and potato chips into the creamed mixture with a wooden spoon. Don’t use an electric mixer or it will toughen the cookie.

Roll dough into balls and place on cookie sheets that have been sprayed with cooking spray.

Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. I rotated cookies on racks every six minutes. My cookies took between 15 and 18 minutes.

Potato Chip Cookies are best justafter coming out of the oven.

You can see the texture well in this photo. There are lots of delicious potato chips in every bite. But unless you know what you’re eating you won’t be able to figure out what it is!Our family, friends, and coworkers have feasted on Potato Chip Cookies often over the past 40+ years!

Here’s the recipe.

(Recipe adapted from Annie White, when we worked together at Eckerd Photo Lab, Clearwater, FL)

Potato Chip Cookies are soyummy!Who ever thought of making cookies with potato chips? They certainly are delicious. That’s all I can say!

Potato Chip Cookies taste so wonderful, plus they’re economical. This is a great way to get rid of the last of the bag of potato chips.Try one. You won’t be disappointed.

These cookies are amazing. Everyone who tries them loves them!

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