Sharing perfect chocolate chip cookies today! My Candy Bar Cookies are packed with chopped candy bars that make the BEST chocolate chip cookies.
Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
So excited for you to try my perfect chocolate chip cookies! Have some fun and crush your family favorite candy bars right inside your cookie dough. Use my Candy Bar Crusher Cookie Dough recipe below for a great buttery outside and chewy center with great texture.
Try my Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe too! Follow Picky Palate on Instagram for daily recipe inspiration.
How To Make Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- Cream butter and sugars into a large bowl until well combined. Stir in egg and vanilla, mixing until well combined. Add flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt. Mix slightly until dough just starts to form then add chocolate chips and crushed/chopped candy bars. Mix until dough is combined.
- With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart.
- Bake for 11-13 minutes until edges just start to turn golden. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy!
Brown sugar!
Once creamed, add your egg and vanilla.
Dry ingredients up next 🙂
I added a few tablespoons of pudding mix for a lovely texture. Give it a try!
Chocolate chips please.
Here are some of the candy bars we crushed for our dough. Use your favorites!
One Butterfinger Bar crushed, mmm! Finely chop/crush the rest of the bars and add them to the dough. See recipe for details.
The Best Cookie Dough!
This dough is ridiculous in the best way possible.
Time to bake!
Yes and Yes. Enjoy friends 🙂
Tips For Making The Best Cookies
- Don’t alter the recipe, use all ingredients as listed.
- For a more firm cookie, refrigerate your cookie dough for 24 hours before baking.
- Always use butter, not margarine. ALWAYS. I prefer salted butter for my chocolate chip cookies. Try it!
- Do not ever grease your cookie sheets. Will make cookies spread and change texture.
- Don’t skip creaming your butter and sugars for a good 2 minutes. Helps create a fluffy, chewy cookie.
- Try sprinkling dough with just a touch of salt for a perfect sweet and salty combination.
- Don’t overtake your cookies. Cookies will continue to cook on hot cookie sheet when removed from oven.
- Let cookies cool completely before storing in containers. This will keep their crispness
- Store leftover cookies in an airtight container for 3 days room temperature.
Candy Bar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick softened unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons light brown sugar packed
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1 regular size Butterfinger Bar crushed
- 1/2 Nestle Crunch Bar finely chopped
- 1/2 Kit Kat Bar finely chopped
- 1/2 PayDay finely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with a silpat liner or parchment paper.
- Cream butter and sugars into a large bowl until well combined. Stir in egg and vanilla, mixing until well combined. Add flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt. Mix slightly until dough just starts to form then add chocolate chips and crushed/chopped candy bars. Mix until dough is combined.
- With a medium cookie scoop, place dough onto prepared baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake for 11-13 minutes until edges just start to turn golden. Remove and let cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring to cooling rack. Serve and enjoy!
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Made these. This recipe is a keeper. I had someone tell me these were “sellable” (not a real word, I know). Not healthy, but definitely good.
These are making my mouth water! I’ve never been able to get my cookies to look as perfect as yours are in this photo.
I’m totally in love with these cookies. Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome! Thanks for commenting. 🙂
I made these last night, taste and smell wonderful. What a great way to get rid of leftover candies in the fridge but mine spread out so much even I put the dough in the fridge between batches. Is there a way to fix that? Thank you so much for a great recipe
Helen, make sure you’re using real butter and don’t press cookies down before baking. 🙂
I love that this is a hodgepodge of all sorts of candy bar goodness!
You had me the moment I read the recipe title! These look awesome! Fun cookies to bake with the kids!
What a great way to use up Halloween candy!
These sound fabulous! Saving for all the Halloween candy!
They look so good! What does the pudding mix do to the cookie?
Hi Barb, I really like the texture the pudding adds to the cookies. Totally optional, but worth a try 🙂
you are totally right Jenny fall is the best time for baking and being in the kitchen. I know that my family will love these expecially if I make them with Butterfinger candy bars
These look so yummy and delicious for fall. Also a great way to use up all the kiddo’s halloween candy 🙂
Open mouth… insert ALL OF THEM! 🙂
I have a candy bar crush on these cookies! 😉
OH yum. These seem like the perfect day-after-trick-or-treat cookie. I’m saving this recipe for sure!
Crazy awesome! Enough said.
I am seriously loving cookies with jello packets in them! They make cookies so moist and soft! These would be amazing
These are fabulous! Love the soft, chewy, looking centre!
I totally need one!
Yum. These would make me very happy. I’ll take a dozen. 🙂
They look irresistible 😀 I don’t have pudding mix in where I live,is there any substitution ?? Many thankd for sharing such a wonderful recipes.
Hello Asma, you can definitely leave the pudding mix out. No substitutions necessary 🙂
These cookies are ridiculous! Ridiculously amazing I’m sure. This would be a great way to use up any Halloween candy.
Give me some Kit-Kat inside a cookie and you have one happy girl! YUM!
I love the name of this and I LOVE all that candy in there! Definitely perfect for the kids!
My kids want these after school. I am certain!
This would be a great way to use up some Halloween candy!
Yes, definitely!!
Amazing it is like party in a cookie!
These look fabulous!!!!!
Oh heaven help me these look amazing. You rock!
Oh boy Jenny! these are just sinful!
I LOVE these! Such a fun way to use up the leftover candy in my pantry too!
Fun cookies!
Oh my goodness the pictures of the cookies look soo mumm good. I will be making this receipe soon real soon.:)
Oh my goodness — these look WAY too fun! And Butterfinger is my favorite! 🙂
Yeah, these would be gone in 60 seconds flat around here! Amazing!
Love these!! Great idea! 🙂
I would polish off a batch of these so fast!