Monday, April 12, 2010
Pop-Tart Cookies: The Recipe
I finally perfected my Pop-Tart cookie recipe and boy are they addicting! With browned butter and a lot of brown sugar, this recipe produces a great chewy cookie that contrasts well with the crunchy Pop-Tarts. They are based off of my favorite chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe and the combination of the chewy/crunchy textures is what makes them so addictive.
I did not ice these cookies, like I did my last batch, since the dough is sweet enough on its own. I’ve only tried strawberry and cherry flavor Pop-Tarts so far but I’m sure other flavors will work as well. I also made some Pop-Tart cupcakes over the weekend and will be posting those next!
Pop-Tart Cookies
Makes 2 ½ dozen
Adapted from Alton BrownIngredients:
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cups brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
8 Pop-Tarts, chopped, crusts removed
2 tablespoons milkDirections:
Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Melt the butter in a heavy-bottom medium saucepan over medium low heat until butter turns amber in color. Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda and set aside.
Pour the melted butter in the mixer’s work bowl. Add the sugar and brown sugar. Beat the butter and sugars on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add the egg, yolk, 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Slowly incorporate the flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir in the Pop-Tarts.
Chill the dough for 1 hour, then scoop onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown, checking the cookies after 5 minutes.
The cookies are great fresh out of the oven or dipped in milk. Enjoy!
And a special thanks to my husband for providing the lovely hand modeling for the cookie dippin' action.
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Jessica @ How Sweet — April 12, 2010 @ 8:02 am
These are brilliant!
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bakinginbraska — April 12, 2010 @ 8:41 am
This is such a great idea!
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Rick — April 12, 2010 @ 12:58 pm
Those sound absolutelyamazinglyummicious!
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sweetlife — April 12, 2010 @ 11:47 pm
great idea..how delish!!
sweetlife
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Michelle — April 13, 2010 @ 9:39 pm
YUM these sound absolutely delicious!
But how much vanilla should be used because they are in the directions but not in the ingredient list.
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Mackenzie — April 14, 2010 @ 8:48 am
Hi Michelle,
I swear I read over this recipe several times and still didn't catch that!!! I have updated the recipe to include the vanilla–1 1/2 teaspoons.
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Liesl — April 14, 2010 @ 3:27 pm
Great idea for a cookie, I bet they are delicious!! Hey at least this way you can tell yourself that it's ok to eat cookies for breakfast!!! ;o)
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aneka — April 24, 2010 @ 10:18 am
Unique recipes, with a mixture of brown sugar …. interesting
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Alaina — May 13, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
This is awesome! I am SO going to give this a try. Can't wait!
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Alaina — May 14, 2010 @ 12:57 am
I made these tonight with S'mores pop-tarts! Very very good! Mine were a little bit flatter than yours and I might have chopped my pop-tarts up too small. I would have liked to have had bigger chunks. Overall wonderful cookie! Do you think the cookie would turn out if you just creamed the butter and the sugar without browning the butter first?
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Mackenzie @ The Caramel Cookie — May 14, 2010 @ 12:43 pm
@Alaina: I'm so glad you liked the cookies! You can cream the butter or you can just melt the butter instead of browning it. I never seem to have butter at room temperature for creaming and end up half melting it anyway when I try to soften in the mircowave
. To keep the cookies from spreading out too much, its important that the dough is throughly chilled. Hope that helps!
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Anna — June 24, 2010 @ 4:22 pm
That is such an awesome idea! I'm going to have to try it!
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Disneypal — June 28, 2010 @ 7:19 am
Ah man – these look and sound good. I found your blog because a local bakery sells Strawberry Pop-Tart cupcakes and I was trying to find out how to make them when I found your Pop-Tart cupcake recipe and then this cookie recipe. I'm so going to try these – I love pop-tarts, I love cookies- what could be better?
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Nickey — July 20, 2010 @ 11:12 pm
I made mine with chocolate fudge poptarts.
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Mackenzie — July 21, 2010 @ 12:34 pm
@Nickey that sounds great!! I haven't had a chocolate fudge poptart in a long time….
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Samantha — September 6, 2010 @ 11:17 pm
These are absolutely FANTASTIC cookies. I used my own pop-tarts instead of store bought (molasses dough with a peach filling), highly HIGHLY addictive cookies! I love your blog such awesome ideas for inspiration.
http://flavorator.blogspot.com/2010/07/soft-yet-chewy-molasses-spice-cookies.html Here is my version!
Samantha
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thecaramelcookie Reply:
September 7th, 2010 at 5:37 am
Thank you! I’m so glad you liked the cookies! The molasses dough sounds like it would be great!
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Sandy — September 26, 2010 @ 1:33 pm
This looks amazing, thanks for the recipe. I’ll try to make one on my son’s next birthday party.
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Jackie — August 29, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
Hi
I was wondering if I could chill this dough overnight, or is it too long.
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thecaramelcookie Reply:
September 2nd, 2011 at 6:29 am
I think it should be fine if you chill it overnight.
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