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Santa's Kitchen Sink Cookies

These cookies are so yummy and fun to bake and decorate. Great for giving out as Christmas edible gifts. The cookies pack up well. Happy holidays to all!

Course Christmas Dessert, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine American
Keyword Christmas Cookies, cookies, Cookies fro Santa, Santa, Santa's Cookies, Santa's Kitchen Sink Cookies, Santa's Trash Cookies
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 11 minutes
cooling time 15 minutes
Total Time 41 minutes
Servings 20 cookies
Author Pam

Ingredients

  • 1 cup  unsalted butter - softened
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda make sure it's fresh for best flavor
  • 1/4 teaspoon fine sea or kosher salt
  • 1/2 to 3/4 cup pretzels - crushed
  • 1 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 1/4 cups white chocolate chips
  • 1 1/8 cups peanut butter chips or milk chocolate chips
  • 1 1/8 cups colored holiday chips or any colored chips, or mini M&Ms you can leave these out and use 1/2 cup more white chocolate chips and another chip of choice and add more holiday sprinkles
  • 1 1/4 cups Christmas colored sprinkles
  • 1 cup crushed peppermint candies or candy canes Leave out if you don't want a peppermint flavor in the cookies

For Topping

  • 1/2 cup crushed up pretzels more if needed
  • 1/2 cup Christmas sprinkles or nonpareils more if needed
  • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips more if needed

Instructions

  1. Using a hand held mixer or stand mixer, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla. Mix until combined, scraping down the sides of the mixing bowl if necessary. Whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a separate large mixing bowl. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until combined. Using a rubber spatula, dig down to the bottom of the mixing bowl and make sure the dry is completely incorporated into the wet ingredients. Now, use the rubber spatula to gently fold in the pretzels, chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, holiday baking chips, crushed peppermint candy, and Christmas sprinkles. Combine the mini chocolate chips, Christmas sprinkles, and more crushed pretzels in a small bowl. Scoop out balls of dough with a medium cookie scoop, form them into round balls, gently dip each ball in the sprinkle mixture. Place the cookie dough balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 350 for 12 to 14 minutes until the edges begin to turn golden. Remove the cookies from the oven and let them cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer the cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool completely. Enjoy!