Butterscotch–Potato Chip Balls

Name: Butterscotch–Potato Chip Balls
Yield: Makes 36 Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup [220 g] unsalted butter, melted; 1 tsp table salt; 1 cup [180 g] butterscotch chips; ½ cup [100 g] granulated sugar; 2 tsp pure vanilla extract; 2⅓ cups [325 g] all-purpose flour; 5 cups [175 g] kettle-style potato chips; 1 cup [200 g] packed light brown sugar; Flaky sea salt for sprinkling; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg; 1 tsp baking soda

Preparation info

Makes
36
Cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

I discovered a recipe for Chip Balls in Good Housekeeping’s Book of Cookies (1958) and realized that folks have been putting crazy add-ins like potato chips in their cookies since the mid-1950s. I’m a huge fan of cookies like this, particularly if the ingredients combine the sweet and the salty in new ways. So I took the Chip Balls recipe and added butterscotch chips, which pair with salt so beautifully. Then I quadrupled the amount of potato chips ca