I finally found a way to prevent my family from eating any cookies that I intend to eat myself by making these salty-sweet cookies..
The trick is to just put something on them that they think is disgusting, but is secretly delicious to you.

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We made chocolate cookies last week, and I told my daughter that I was going to put potato chips on mine. She was horrified and said that was gross.
So when I did put the chips on about 1/3 of them, I noticed that NONE of my family ate them. Not one.
They all went for the basic chocolate with no delicious salty embellishment.
Hmmm…interesting.
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You need to know that my family is a group of cookie hogs. I don’t buy cookies because we’ll sit in a group and eat the entire bag at once.
The Girl Scouts know that I’m their best customer.
I once froze cookies in the hopes that they would last longer…This just resulted in my husband eating the frozen cookies while standing in front of the open freezer. When I protested that they were frozen to stop people from eating them he said “That won’t stop me.”
So when potato chips stopped them, I was slightly stunned. Especially since I love the salt/sweet combination, but I guess they don’t.
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So here’s my recipe for potato chip cookies that will possibly stop the cookie hogs. This is adapted from a Bakers chocolate recipe but I changed out a few ingredients.

Salty-Sweet Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 4 ounce Unsweetened Chocolate
- 3/4 cup Butter
- 2 cups Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 2 1/2 cups AP Flour
- 3/4 cup Chocolate Icing or Ganache
- 1 cup Salty Potato Chips, crushed into small pieces
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Prep cookie sheets by lining with parchment paper.
- Melt the butter and the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave.
- Heat for 1 minute then stir it until the chocolate melts.
- Add the sugar and mix well, then add the eggs and vanilla and blend in.
- Add the flour and mix well.
- Refrigerate for an hour or until the dough is stiff enough to roll into balls
- Roll 1″ balls and place 2″ apart on a parchment- lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes, don’t overbake.
- When the cookies come out of the oven slide the parchment sheets onto a cooling rack but don’t try to remove the cookies from the parchment yet.
- Pipe a bit of chocolate icing or ganache onto the cookies while they’re still warm.
- Add any toppings (crushed chips) at this point, or just smooth the topping out and leave it plain.
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Pipe a bit of chocolate icing or ganache onto the cookies while they’re still warm. Add any toppings (chips) at this point, or just smooth the topping out and leave it plain.
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When the cookies are cooled, remove from the parchment.
Final step, sit in a group with your family and eat all the cookies in one sitting. At least that’s the final step in my house.