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Take you chocolate chip cookies to the next level and make Milky Way Cookies. These cookies turn out soft, delicious and full of delicious chocolate flavor.
Milky Way Bars are the perfect addition to your chocolate chip cookies. These cookies will melt in your mouth and they perfect way to use your leftover Halloween Candy.
Cookies make the perfect dessert recipe and adding your favorite candy bars makes them even better. Try these other ways to use candy bars to make these recipes – Easy Twix Bars Cupcakes Recipe, Butterfinger Pie and Best Snickers Apple Salad Recipe.
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Why We Love This Recipe
Candy Bar Cookies is a great recipe to have the kids to help. We have made these cookies with Snickers but Musketeers would also be a great choice.
The steps are easy and if you are a baker, your probably already have all the ingredients. These cookies are perfect for the Milk Way Candy Bar lover in your family and are easy to serve for any occasion.
Ingredients
- Unsalted Butter – Start with room temperature, softened butter
- Light Brown Sugar – Learn How to Make Brown Sugar with simple ingredients
- Chocolate Chips – We used semi sweet chocolate chips but these cookies would be delicious with dark chocolate chips
- Milky Way Candy Bars – Feel free to use other types of fun size candy bars
Scroll to the bottom for the full recipe and ingredients in the recipe card.
How to Make Milk Way Cookies
- Step 1 – Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2 – In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until the mixture is creamy. Stir in the eggs and vanilla extract.
Step 3 – Whisk the flour, baking soda and salt in a different bowl.
Step 4 – Gradually add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until well combined. Mix the batter well in a large bowl.
Step 5 – Mix in chocolate chips and chopped Milky Way Candy Bars to the cookie dough batter. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 15-20 minutes.
Step 6 – Scoop the cookie dough onto a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges are slightly browned.
Step 7 – Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Then move to a wire rack to cool completely. Then the cookies are ready to serve and enjoy!
Recipe Tips
- Mixing Ingredients – Combine the cookie dough batter together with a hand mixer or a stand mixer. You can also mix by hand whichever you prefer.
- Freezing Candy Bars – To help keep the shape of the candy bars, we like to freeze the candy bars. But this is an optional step.
- Scoop Cookie Dough – For best results, we like to scoop the cookie dough with a ice cream scoop. It allows the dough to be even so it cooks evenly.
- Baking Sheet – To easily remove the cookies from baking sheet, line with parchment paper.
Frequently Asked Questions
This milk chocolate coating candy bar is full of nougat and caramel. The combination of these ingredients make a delicious candy bar that everyone loves.
Cooking time will vary when baking these cookies. Cookie are done baking in about 8-10 minutes and are slightly golden brown. If your cookies are soft in the center, they will finish cooking on the baking sheet when you remove from the oven.
Store the cookies in an airtight container or bag at room temperature for up to 1 week.
Yes, you can freeze cookies cooked or cookie dough. Place cookies in a freezer safe container and they will last about 3 months. If you want to freeze cookie dough, prepare the dough as the recipe indicates and place the dough balls on a baking sheet. Flash freeze the dough for about an hour. Then place the dough in a freezer bag so you can take out the amount that you need. Find more tips, How to Freeze Cookies for Baking.
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Milky Way Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter softened
- 3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
- 3/4 cup Light Brown Sugar
- 2 Large Eggs
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Chocolate Chips
- 15 Fun Size Milky Way Candy Bars coarsely chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until the mixture is creamy. Stir in the eggs and vanilla extract.
- Combine the flour, baking soda and salt in a different bowl.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until well combined.
- Gently stir the chocolate chips and Milky Way Candy Bars into the cookie dough. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 15-20 minutes.
- Scoop the cookie dough onto a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes until the edges are slightly browned.
- Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Then move to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Then the cookies are ready to serve and enjoy!
I love making cookies with pieces of candy bars! This cookie recipe was so delicious!