Easy Kitchen Sink Cookie Recipe

Our Easy Kitchen Sink Cookie Recipe includes all of your favorite treats like chocolate chips, potato chips, M & M's, nuts and so much more!

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What are Kitchen Sink Cookies?

These amazing cookies are called Kitchen Sink cookies because they include “everything but the kitchen sink.” This basically means that the cookies include any random ingredients or treats you can find inside your pantry.

This humorous idiom, whose origins remain unclear except to say it appears to have originated around World War I in the military.

The military slang or phrase "everything but the kitchen sink", or some believe originally was, "everything but the kitchen stove", means almost everything and anything imaginable.

The expression "everything but the kitchen sink" has been used so often that the term "kitchen sink" itself has become a related idiom, and is used as an adjective.

Why are they called Kitchen Sink Cookies?

These easy kitchen sink cookies get their name as a result of including so many treats inside each and every bite. You literally can use everything but the kitchen sink in them and your cookies will taste great.

This is the best kitchen sink cookies recipe out there. I can almost guarantee it!

Here are some of your options. Use no more than 3 cups total for any combination of some or of all of them:

• chocolate chips
• caramel chips
• peanut butter chips
• butterscotch chips
• M&M's, Smarties
• toffee bits
• malted milk balls
• pretzels
• plain potato chips
• nuts, coconut, peanuts, pecans, walnuts

When baked all together in cookie form is absolute cookie perfection. Bite after bite.

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what's in a semi sweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, pretzels caramel and salt

Kitchen Sink Cookie Recipe

I always have believed on some level that more is better with almost anything but especially with food. I love cookies and desserts with lots of "stuff" in them.

Whether you call these Monster Cookies, Everything Cookies, Kitchen Sink Cookies or Junk in Da Trunk Cookies they all mean the same thing. Lots of good treats inside every bite of the cookies.

I originally got this recipe for these cookies from my friend who got the idea from Rachael Ray. This recipe for my Kitchen Sink Cookies is a slightly different version but definitely just a delicious!

You will still find the chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, M&M's and potato chips that make the original great but I have taken out the peanuts and pretzels and included toffee bits and pecans instead.

I thought how could these cookies not be great and I was right as these cookies are totally awesome too. 

Kitchen Sink Cookies

Now I make this everything version even more than I make the original. They are definitely a softer and chewier version but both are fabulous in their own right. 

I always figure that you can never have too many cookie recipes and the more choices the better! These cookies look just terrific on a sweet tray too.

Whenever I feel like making cookies or something sweet, I like to look at all of the recipes I have, or see what I have in my pantry, and then decide what recipe will satisfy my cravings.

It's funny because when I can't decide on which snack or treat to make I always ask my husband to. He ever seems to have a problem making up his mind about anything food related and I wish I was more like that!

Sometimes I just want something and I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Surely I am not the only one who experiences this sort of thing. Am I?

Options for Kitchen Sink Cookies

These cookies also have been affectionately given the name Kitchen Sink Cookies by some of our friends and family. It is true that when you think of Kitchen Sink Cookies, or Kitchen Sink anything, you imagine everything included in the recipe.

These Junk in Da Trunk Cookies are just that. Filled with anything and everything you can think of or desire. Honestly, everything I have ever tried has worked. Some ingredient combinations I prefer more than others but they all worked.

Experiment with this recipe to come up with your version of these Kitchen Sink Cookies! I am pretty sure you will be glad you did! 

I have created a list below of some of the options for this recipe. Again, if you try some others that worked for you please take a moment to let me know what they are so I can add it to the list here. We all would be grateful.

• chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, caramel or chips of any kind will work in this recipe to a total of approximately 1 cup and you can always add a little more or a little less
• M&M's (any variety), Smarties, Reese's Pieces or another colorful candy coated treat for color 
• toffee bits
• plain potato chips
• pecans, peanuts, walnuts, coconut or your favorite all chopped up
• dried fruits
• mints
• sprinkles or sparkles
• anything else you can think of and please let us know in the comments below so I can add it to the list

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Easy Kitchen Sink Cookie Recipe

Our Easy Kitchen Sink Cookie Recipe includes all of your favorite treats like chocolate chips, potato chips, M & M's, nuts and so much more!

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Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Equipment

• rimmed baking sheet

Ingredients

  

• 1 ¾ cups flour
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ¾ cup butter, unsalted, room temperature
• ½ cup brown sugar, packed
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ cup butterscotch chips
• ½ cup chocolate chips
• ½ cup M&M's or Smarties
• ½ cup toffee bits
• ⅓ cup plain potato chips, lightly crushed
• ⅓ cup pecans, coarsely chopped
• icing sugar optional

Instructions

 

• Get out and measure all of your ingredients. These cookies are wonderful!
  
• Mix the flour and baking soda together in a small bowl, set aside.
• Using a stand or an electric mixer ideally, beat the butter on medium speed for a minute or so until smooth.
• Add the sugars and salt and beat on medium for 5 minutes, scraping the bowl down occasionally.
  
• Add the egg and vanilla. Continue to blend. Add the flour mixture and beat on low, remembering to scrape down the bowl as needed, do not over mix.
  
• Add the chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, potato chips, skor bits, pecans and M&M's.
  
• Stir until just blended with a spoon or spatula.
  
• Keep mixing until everything is incorporated.
  
• Shape the dough into approximately 2 inch round balls and place on a cookie sheet or large plate. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours if not overnight.
• When ready to bake, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper or put cooking spray on a foil lined baking sheet.
• Arrange the chilled dough balls about two inches apart on the lined cookie sheets. These cookies do not spread much at all. Flatten each dough ball slightly with your finger or a fork.
• Bake for approximately 12-15 minutes, or until the cookies are light golden brown.
• After 5 minutes allow the cookies to cool on a wire rack. Do not over cook these cookies as they are better underdone than over.
  
• Dust with sifted icing sugar if desired. I never do but I have tried it and thought the cookies tasted great with it, I just don't think they need it, so I just don't take the extra step. I would love to hear if anyone disagrees! Otherwise enjoy these cookies!

Notes

This recipe has been adapted from Rachel Ray

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