These cookies are a marvelous combination of spicy, sweet, salty, crunchy and buttery.
You have a lot of options as to what ingredients you use. Pretty much any spicy potato chip would work- jalapeno, chipotle, etc. In my case, I used Pringles Frank's Red Hot potato chips. The same goes for the nuts- you can use just about any kind of nut but I went for what I consider to be a "neutral" nut and used raw pinenuts since I just wanted them to add texture but not a lot of flavor.
Red Hot Potato Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
1/2 cup crushed spicy potato chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line baking sheets (you'll likely need two- or use the same one twice) with parchment paper. If you don't have parchment paper, just don't grease the cookie sheet.
Ready to bake |
Make small 1-inch balls of dough and place on cookie sheet. Slightly flatten the cookies with the back of a fork and place in oven for 15-17 minutes or until just golden brown on the edges (I needed more like 18 minutes because my oven sucks.)
Sprinkle on some magic |
While cookies are cooling, mix 1 Tbl chili powder in with 1/4 cup powdered sugar. Dust cookies with chili powder/powdered sugar mixture.
Yields approximately 40 cookies