Buckle up children, day 2 of #AKCookieWeek is an out-of-this-world mixture. Over the previous couple of years, I’ve examined and re-tested this recipe to ensure it was completely excellent for you all, and these are severe dessert heaven.
These are the most effective magic cookies ever with a beautiful brown sugar base and tons of scrumptious mix-ins like butterscotch, chocolate, marshmallows, coconut, and extra. What are magic cookies, you ask? They’re mainly cookies that really feel just a little bit magical and candy due to the entire enjoyable components.
These unimaginable cookies are completely crispy on the skin and tremendous chewy within the center. You may actually make them your individual with a few of your individual favourite mix-ins, so have enjoyable experimenting, and bear in mind to learn all of my finest suggestions within the put up!
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Every thing you’ll must make the most effective magic cookies
These infants are referred to as “magic cookies” due to the unimaginable texture and the entire great mix-ins we’ll be including proper to the batter. Right here’s what you’ll must make them:
- Coconut oil: melted coconut oil offers the cookies moisture and just a little enhance of coconut taste. No sweetened condensed milk in right here, which is a standard ingredient in different magic cookie bars and cookies.
- Brown sugar: we’re utilizing all darkish brown sugar (no white sugar) in these cookies for that wealthy molasses taste. It additionally makes the cookies further chewy!
- Eggs: you’ll want 1 egg and 1 egg yolk to assist the cookies bake correctly.
- Flour: the bottom of those cookies is made with common all objective flour.
- Oats: I personally imagine rolled oats in cookies make them 100x higher. They get the most effective texture!
- Baking staples: don’t overlook the vanilla extract (learn to make your individual right here!), baking soda, and salt.
- For the mix-ins: right here’s the place the cookies get their magic. We’re folding in shredded unsweetened coconut, puffed brown rice cereal, chopped pecans, mini marshmallows, darkish chocolate chunks, AND butterscotch chips. I imply…are you able to even?!
- Sea salt: as all the time, I really like sprinkling fancy sea salt on prime of my cookies.
Customise your magic cookies
Have enjoyable mixing and matching together with your favourite add-ins! Listed here are another mix-in concepts I can recommend:
- Swap the pecans for chopped walnuts (or any of your favourite nuts!)
- Strive white chocolate chips or chunks as an alternative of darkish chocolate
- Add peanut butter chips rather than the butterscotch chips
The choices are really limitless!
Can I make them gluten free or vegan?
Please observe that I’ve not examined this magic cookie recipe utilizing a gluten-free flour or flax eggs, so I can’t be positive how they’ll end up. Be at liberty to make them dairy free by merely swapping the butterscotch chips for dairy free chocolate chips.
Can I exploit metal reduce oats?
I might not advocate utilizing metal reduce oats as they’re much tougher and won’t give the cookies that chewy issue that rolled oats will!
Tips on how to make the most effective magic cookies
- Combine the moist components. Whisk collectively the entire moist components in a big bowl till the combination is easy and resembles caramel.
- Add the dry. Stir in the entire dry components till the dough is effectively mixed.
- Add the mix-ins. Fold in all of these scrumptious mix-ins, reserving some chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips so as to add to the highest of your cookies earlier than baking.
- Relaxation the dough. Let the dough sit for 5-10 minutes at room temp to assist it keep collectively when baked.
- Scoop, bake & devour. Use a cookie scoop to scoop the dough, add it to a ready baking sheet, and prime with some further butterscotch and/or chocolate. Bake them up, sprinkle with sea salt, and revel in!
On the lookout for thinner cookies?
Merely cut back the flour by 1-2 tablespoons! It simply is dependent upon your texture desire.
A observe on baking with marshmallows
The marshmallows might soften out of the cookies if in case you have them on the sides. That is no large deal! They’ll caramelize and create scrumptious crispy bites on the sides.
Storing & freezing suggestions
- To retailer: retailer these magic cookies in an hermetic container at room temperature for as much as 5 days.
- To freeze: you may really freeze the cookie dough OR the freshly baked cookies to get pleasure from later! Get all of my suggestions and methods for freezing cookies right here.
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I hope you like these great magic cookies! In case you make them you should definitely depart a remark and a score so I understand how you appreciated them. Take pleasure in, xo!
Not Your Mama’s Magic Cookies
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The magic cookies of your goals stuffed with oats, shredded coconut, rice krispies, pecans, marshmallows, butterscotch chips, and puddles of darkish chocolate. These unimaginable magic cookies have a brown sugar base, which makes them crispy on the skin and completely chewy within the center. The final word vacation deal with!
Elements
- Moist components:
- ½ cup melted virgin coconut oil
- 1 cup packed darkish brown sugar
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Dry components:
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons all objective flour*
- ⅔ cup quaint rolled oats
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- Combine-ins:
- ⅓ cup shredded unsweetened coconut (I like Bob’s Crimson Mill)
- ½ cup puffed brown rice cereal or brown rice krispies
- ⅓ cup roughly chopped pecans
- ⅔ cup mini marshmallows**
- 3 ounces 70% darkish chocolate bar, chopped into chunks (about 1/2 cup chocolate chips/chunks)
- ¼ cup butterscotch chips, plus extra as wanted
- For topping:
- Maldon sea salt, for sprinkling on prime
Directions
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Preheat the oven to 350 levels F. Line a big baking sheet with parchment paper and put aside.
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Combine collectively the moist components: in a big bowl, whisk collectively the coconut oil, brown sugar, egg, egg yolk and vanilla till effectively mixed and easy. The combination ought to resemble caramel and switch a barely lighter golden brown colour.
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Stir within the dry components: add the flour, oats, baking soda and salt to the bowl with the moist components and use a picket spoon to stir collectively till effectively mixed.
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Add in mix-ins: stir within the shredded unsweetened coconut, brown rice cereal, pecans, mini marshmallows, darkish chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips till effectively mixed. (I recommend reserving a number of chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips for including on prime of cookies to make them fairly.)
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Relaxation the dough: Permit the dough to sit down for five to 10 minutes at room temperature earlier than baking.
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Use a medium cookie scoop to seize dough and drop onto the ready baking sheet, being positive to position cookies not less than 2 inches aside from each other. Do NOT flatten dough balls down. Add a number of further chocolate chunks and butterscotch chips on prime of every cookie (1-3 per cookie is nice!)
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Bake cookies for 9/11 minutes or till barely golden on the sides. Marshmallows will create some crispy edges in the event that they leak out, that are DELICIOUS.
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As soon as cookies are carried out baking, sprinkle them with sea salt. Permit cookies to chill on a baking sheet for five to 10 minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack to complete cooling. Makes 16 to 18 cookies. Take pleasure in!
Recipe Notes
*If you’d like thinner cookies, be at liberty to make use of 2 tablespoons much less flour.
**The marshmallows might soften out of the cookies if in case you have them on the sides. no large deal, they will caramelize and create scrumptious crispy bites on the sides!
Recipe by: Monique Volz // Bold Kitchen | Images by: Eat Love Eats