Recipe: Perfect Grandma Elsie's Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies

Grandma Elsie's Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies. Grandma Elsie's Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies the original potato chip cookie with a slight hint of chocolate. :cookie these are light, melt in your mouth, crunchy, sweet, slightly salty and chocolaty! renee. I was a little skeptical because of the simplicity of the ingredients and becuase the dough turned out very soft and buttery. I baked them until golden around the edges and they turned out really good. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, oil and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.

Add in baking soda, salt and cream of tartar. It came from a friend of my daughter who remembered this cookie from her childhood when her grandmother made them for her - very rich and buttery! NOTE: Potato Chip Cookies are pictured in top right of tray, between the green spinkled cookies and the rolled krumkake. You can cook Grandma Elsie's Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grandma Elsie's Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies

1. It's 1 lb of margarine room temp.
2. It's 1 cup of sugar.
3. You need 3 1/2 cup of sifted flour.
4. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
5. Prepare 3 1/2 cup of fine crushed potato chips ( not wavy or ruffled).
6. It's 1 of to 3 ounces of melted milk chocolate.

In a large bowl, cream together the shortening, white sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla. Sift together the flour and baking powder. Add to the potato chip mixture and mix well.

Grandma Elsie's Chocolate Potato Chip Cookies instructions

1. preheat oven to 350.
2. ( chocolate.. use 1oz. for a mild hint of chocolate or up to 3oz. for more chocolaty taste).
3. cream together margarine, sugar and melted chocolate..
4. add vanilla.
5. stir in flour one cup at a time..
6. fold in crushed potato chips..
7. drop by the half tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheet..
8. bake about 12 minutes. the bottoms should be golden. and the tops as well..
9. cook on wire racks..
10. store in airtight container..
11. makes about 70 .. 1 inch cookies..

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet, allowing space for the cookies to spread. I think these are good my whole family seemed to like them. My family thought this cookie could use chocolate chips. I'll make these again but throw a cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips in. See great recipes for Chocolate Potato Chips too!