Grandma Florence’s Potato Chip Cookies

Submitted by: Sara Levine Rosenblum
Recipe origin: USA

These are an all-time favorite Grandma Florence cookie, one that holiday guests and camp bunkmates requested time and time again. Years later, in my corporate life, these salty-sweet cookies won an office bake-off at Food Network! The crushed potato chips add a subtle salty crunch that is addictive.

Ingredients:
1 pound margarine or butter*
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup finely crushed potato chips
Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting

*Although margarine was a staple in my grandmother’s kitchen (sign of the times!), I (Sara) always use butter!

Cream margarine or butter and sugar. Add vanilla.
Mix in flour. Blend in crushed potato chips. Mix well with spoon (or mixer).
Take a piece of dough (size of a walnut), roll in your hands until smooth and flatten on lightly greased cookie sheet with your fingers (or you can drop the piece of dough and flatten with a fork). I prefer first method.
They spread so don’t make them too big. (Move each a little with a spatula after taking the cookie sheet from the oven so they don’t stick).
Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes. Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar when cooled.