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Kitchen Sink Cookies

by
Patty
-
August 31, 2022

You know the kind of cookie I mean. The kind where you can put just about anything into them, hence calling them kitchen sink cookies – as in anything but the kitchen sink. It’s a recipe that can be played with and adapted a million different ways depending upon what you have on had at the time you go to bake your cookies.

In other words, my favorite kind of recipe. On the day I made these I used what I happened to have on hand and the cookie that came out of the oven was delicious; sweet, fruity, nutty and chocolately. Enjoy!

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kitchen sink cookies

Kitchen Sink Cookies Recipe

makes 36 big cookies

  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose or white whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup packed, light brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1 TBS all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups mixed dried fruits
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts (walnuts, cashews, pecans etc.)
  • Preheat oven to 350
wet ingredients
  • Add butter to stand mixer with paddle attached. Beat until smooth
dry ingredients
  • Add sugars and salt and beat until well combined.
  • Add eggs, one at a time until incorporated. Then mix in vanilla.
  • Add flour and baking soda and mix until combined.
  • Sprinkle the 1 TBS flour over the dried fruits and nuts to lightly coat them.
mix in dried fruit and nuts
  • Remove bowl from stand and stir in the nuts and dried fruit. Yes, this is a titch of a struggle.
drop on cookie sheet
  • Using a large scoop or by 2 TBS at a time, drop the batter onto parchment lined baking sheets, 2″ apart.
  • Flatten slightly with a glass that has been dipped in flour
  • Bake until golden brown, 12 – 15 minutes. Rotate the sheets halfway through baking.
cool on wire rack
  • Transfer on parchment to a wire rack to cool.

How Were the Kitchen Sink Cookies?

These are very tasty cookies to be sure. Their story is dictated by whomever is baking them. I think the next time I make them I will make sure that I add a little bit of chocolate into the mix as well. One can never go wrong with semi sweet chocolate in a cookie, can one?

These would make excellent picnic cookies or to take to party. I can’t imagine anyone who would enjoy one. The flavors are all up to you and what you want to add into them. I love a recipe like this – where you can go crazy and add in all the things or be a little more restrained if that is what you want.

I tend to add all the things. heh

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A big, chunky cookie full of anything and everything you want to put into it

  • Author: Adapted from Martha Stewart’s Cookies
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes
  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 36 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose or white whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup packed, light brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 1 TBS all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups mixed dried fruits
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts (walnuts, cashews, pecans etc.)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350
  • Add butter to stand mixer with paddle attached. Beat until smooth
  • Add sugars and salt and beat until well combined.
  • Add eggs, one at a time until incorporated. Then mix in vanilla.
  • Add flour and baking soda and mix until combined.
  • Sprinkle the 1 TBS flour over the dried fruits and nuts to lightly coat them.
  • Remove bowl from stand and stir in the nuts and dried fruit. Yes, this is a titch of a struggle.
  • Using a large scoop or by 2 TBS at a time, drop the batter onto parchment lined baking sheets, 2″ apart.
  • Flatten slightly with a glass that has been dipped in flour
  • Bake until golden brown, 12 – 15 minutes. Rotate the sheets halfway through baking.
  • Transfer on parchment to a wire rack to cool.

Notes

Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days.

They freeze very well.

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Happily living in the small city of Brattleboro, Vermont, Patty Woodland is navigating the urban life of sidewalks and neighbors in New England. She will share life in her small city, the books she reads, and as always, the delicious food she cooks and bakes.

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