Compost Cookies are a Delicious Combination of Whatever Snacks You Have in Your Pantry
Yes, Compost Cookies is a funny name. No, they are not made with compost. Yes, they are delicious.
I served these cookies at our Smart Cookie Graduation Party and they were by far the crowd favorite.
These crazy and delicious cookies originated from the Momofuku Milk Bar in NYC. It’s the same place that amazing Crack Pie I shared originated from. They are called compost cookies because you pretty much throw in whatever you have in your cupboard.
I looked in my pantry and found potato chips, pretzels, fritos, white chocolate and Twix bars. So that is what I used in this batch.
How to Make Compost Cookies
You need 1 and 1/2 C of your favorite salty snack food like pretzels and chips and 1 and 1/2 C of your favorite sweet treats like chocolate chips and candy bars. Once you have dug out whatever is in your pantry, you are ready to go.
Start by beating the sugar, butter, corn syrup, eggs and vanilla for 10 minutes to get the sugar nice and dissolved. Although this is unusual for a cookie recipe, the dough ends up very fluffy and creamy as a result.
This cookie is both crisp and soft and sweet and salty. A totally fun combination.
Because the dough is so soft and fluffy it does need to be refrigerated for at least an hour before baking.
So get creative and come up with your own combination of Compost Cookies. Let me know what you add in? It is fun to try different combinations and each time I make them they are a little different. It is a great way to clean out that pantry too!
Compost Cookie Recipe
- 1 C butter unsalted
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 3/4 C light brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp corn syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp Kosher salt
- 1 1/2 C your favorite baking ingredients options: chocolate chips, Twix, Raisenettes, Rollos, Cocoa Krispies
- 1 1/2 C your favorite snack foods chips, pretzels, etc.
- Mix with the paddle attachment, cream butter, sugars and corn syrup on medium high for two to three minutes until fluffy and pale yellow in color
- Turn down the speed to low and add eggs and vanilla
- Turn up speed to medium high and beat for 10 minutes
- This allows the sugar to fully dissolve, the mixture will become an almost pale white color and your creamed mixture will double in size
- After 10 minutes add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt
- Mix for about another minute just until your dough comes together
- Do not over mix at this point
- At a low speed, add in the baking ingredients and mix for 30 - 45 seconds until they evenly mix into the dough
- Add in your favorite snack foods last, beating at low low speed until they are just incorporated
- Using a 6 oz. ice cream scoop, make balls of cookie dough and place onto a parchment lined cookie sheet
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for a minimum of one hour or up to 1 week
- DO NOT BAKE your cookies from room temperature or they will not hold their shape
- Heat the oven to 400 F. Take the plastic off your cookies and bake 9 to 11 minutes
- While in the oven, the cookies will puff, crackle and spread
- At 9 minutes, the cookies should be browned on the edges and just beginning to brown towards the center.
- Leave the cookies in the oven for the additional minutes if these colors don't match up and your cookies still seem pale and doughy on the surface
- Cool the cookies completely
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I’ve made the crack pie before, it really is crack!! Now these cookies…man they look good and the salty sweet combo gets me every.single.time 🙂
Yummy as always. Hope you are doing good…and that your sweet girl is settling in. Love to you.
I cannot wait to try these! A friend of mine always talks about Compost Cookies from Momofuko, and I have never been so I have never been able to try them. I will definitely be making them at home!
YUM! Those look great!!
OMG!!!!! I made prepared these yestereday and baked this morning. These are incredible. This is the second batch of made and used different “junk” (compost) each time. These were by far the BEST. Some of this and some of that (raisenettes, twix, kit-kat, skors, milk duds…..all cut up, of course. And, pretzels chopped.) AMAZING!!!!!!!! Last time I used a few different things but these were better. Did I say……AMAZING!!!!!!!! Baked them for a friends party and better get them outta here fast!!!!!!!!!
So glad you enjoyed the cookies. The fun part is how they turn out a little different each time you make them. I love experimenting with different ingredients. Thanks!
These are delicious! Truth be told, we ate as much dough as we did baked:) I used pretzels, chocolate chips and caramel bits (there wasn’t much junk food in the cupboards). Can’t wait to try them again with different combination of ingredients .