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Compost Cookies
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Compost Cookies

Compost cookies combine a diverse mix of sweet, salty, and crunchy ingredients—mini chocolate and butterscotch chips, potato chips, pretzels, oats, ground coffee, and a graham crumb mixture—into a chewy, textured cookie. The dough blends bread flour with leavening agents and creamed butters and sugars, balanced by vanilla and glucose for moisture and structure. This complex ingredient combination yields a multi-dimensional flavor and crunch in every bite.

Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
18 mins
Additional Time
1 hr
Total Time
2 hrs
Servings: 20 to 20 cookies
Calories: 315 kcal
Course: Snacks
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

For the Graham Crumb Mixture
  • ⅓ cup graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 tablespoon milk powder
  • 1½ teaspoons granulated sugar
  • ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon butter melted, unsalted
  • 1 tablespoon heavy cream
For the Cookies
  • 1⅓ cups bread flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ⅔ cup light brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoons glucose
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¾ cup mini chocolate chips
  • ½ cup butterscotch chips mini
  • graham cracker crumbs prepared mixture
  • ⅓ cup rolled oats old-fashioned
  • 2½ teaspoons ground coffee
  • 2 cups potato chips
  • 1 cup pretzels mini

Instructions

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  1. Prepare Graham Mixture: In a small bowl, stir together the graham cracker crumbs, milk powder, sugar and salt. Whisk together the butter and heavy cream, then add to the dry ingredients. Toss with a fork until the mixture is evenly moistened; set aside.
  2. Prepare the Cookie Dough: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; set aside.
  3. Combine the butter, both sugars and glucose in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and cream together on medium-high speed for 2 to 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add the egg and vanilla, and continue to beat for 7 to 8 minutes.
  4. Reduce mixer speed to low and add the flour mixture. Mix just until the dough comes together, no longer than 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula.
  5. Still on low speed, add the chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, graham mixture, oats and coffee, and mix until just incorporated, about 30 seconds. Add the potato chips and pretzels and again, mix only until barely incorporated, 15 to 20 seconds.
  6. Using a 2¾-ounce ice cream scoop (or a ⅓-cup measuring cup), portion out the dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Pat the tops of the cookie dough domes flat. Wrap the sheet pan tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or up to 1 week.
  7. Bake the Cookies: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Arrange the chilled dough a minimum of 4 inches apart on parchment- or Silpat-lined sheet pans (should be about 6 cookies per sheet).
  8. Bake for 18 minutes. The cookies will puff, crackle, and spread. After 18 minutes, they should be very faintly browned on the edges yet still bright yellow in the center. Give them an extra minute or so if that's not the case.
  9. Cool the cookies completely on the sheet pans before serving or storing. The cookies can be kept in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days, or frozen for up to 1 month.

Notes

  • Substitute 1 tablespoon light corn syrup if glucose is unavailable.
  • Use ground coffee instead of instant coffee or espresso powder to maintain texture without dissolving.
  • Recommended pretzels are Snyders mini pretzels for best crunch and size.
  • Cape Cod potato chips provide suitable saltiness and thickness for the cookie texture.

Nutrition Information

Calories 315kcal (16%) Carbohydrates 41g (14%) Protein 3g (6%) Fat 15g (23%) Saturated Fat 7g (35%) Cholesterol 36mg (12%) Sodium 274mg (11%) Potassium 191mg (4%) Fiber 1g (4%) Sugar 25g (50%) Vitamin A 345IU (7%) Vitamin C 1.6mg (2%) Calcium 31mg (3%) Iron 0.7mg (4%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 20 to 20 cookies

Amount Per Serving

Calories 315

% Daily Value*

Calories 315kcal 16%
Carbohydrates 41g 14%
Protein 3g 6%
Fat 15g 23%
Saturated Fat 7g 35%
Cholesterol 36mg 12%
Sodium 274mg 11%
Potassium 191mg 4%
Fiber 1g 4%
Sugar 25g 50%
Vitamin A 345IU 7%
Vitamin C 1.6mg 2%
Calcium 31mg 3%
Iron 0.7mg 4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.