These Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies are the ultimate sweet and salty Christmas cookie! The cookie are loaded with everything but the kitchen sink; including pretzel pieces, potato chips, white chocolate chips, M&Ms, and Christmas colored sprinkles! They’re super festive, and perfect for a uniquely festive cookie!
Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies are packed with 4 cups of festive add-ins! You can also add a variety of others mix ins that you love, think chocolate chips, pieces of caramels, toffee bits, nuts, and whatever other sweet and salty mix ins you love!
Why make this Recipe
- Packed with Sweet and Salty Flavor: The perfect sweet, salty, crunchy combo. These cookies can be loaded with whatever you have on hand leftover in your pantry, but might I recommend not to skip the pretzels and m&ms!
- Super Customizable: Use your favorite holiday mix-ins for a unique cookie every time you make these! If you love peppermint you could even add candy cane pieces, or chopped up peppermint bark. Leftover churro toffee, or cracker toffee would be amazing as well!
- Great for Sharing: These cookies are perfect for sharing with friends. Perfect for parties, potlucks, cookie swaps, or gifting to your friends and neighbors.
Ingredients Needed
This is a quick overview of the ingredients you’ll need for this Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies Recipe. Specific measurements and full recipe instructions are in the printable recipe card below.
- unsalted butter – Provides a rich, buttery base that makes the cookies soft and flavorful.
- brown sugar + granulated sugar – The perfect mix to keep the cookies, sweet, and also soft, and chewy.
- eggs – binds everything in the dough together
- vanilla extract – just a little for flavor
- all purpose flour – make sure to spoon the flour into the measuring cup then level off the top so you don’t get too much
- cornstarch – keeps the cookies extra soft
- baking soda + baking powder – a mix of both to help the cookies rise
- salt – balances out the sweetness, but if you’re using salted butter cut this in half.
- potato chips + pretzels – adds a little salty crunch to the cookies
- Christmas m&ms – adds a nice festive color, and chocolate flavor
- white baking chip – pairs perfectly with the addition of the chocolate in the m&ms
- Christmas sprinkles – makes the cookies extra festive
How to make Kitchen Sink Christmas Cookies
Step 1: Cream the butter and sugars together. Add the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar to a large bowl and cream together for a couple of minutes. Add in the eggs, and vanilla extract and stir together until just combined.
Step 2: Add in the dry ingredients. Add in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and stir it together until you have a nice soft dough.
Step 3: Add in the mix ins. Add in the white chocolate chips, chip pieces, pretzels, m&ms, and sprinkles. Fold them into the dough until evenly mixed.
Step 4: Bake the cookies. Scoop the cookie dough into portions about 2 TBS in size. Roll them into balls and place about 6 on a baking sheet, spaced at least 3 inches apart. Bake until the tops of the cookies are just set.
Step 5: Make the cookies extra pretty. Because of all mix ins these cookies often don’t bake up round. Press the edges of the cookies in with a spoon, or even easier use a large cookier cutter or large glass and place it over the cookie, swirl it around gently until the edges are rounded. Top each cookie with a few extra mix ins. Also sprinkle with sea salt if desired.
Tips and Tricks
- Try other Mix Ins: You don’t want to end up with more than 4 cups of mix ins, because we’re already adding in a lot. But feel free to substitute something else for some of the mix ins, or lower the amount of some, to add a few others. Other delicious choices would be milk chocolate chips, dark chocolate, peanut butter chips, nuts, toffee bits, chopped up caramel pieces, butterscotch chips, or chopped up candy bars.
- Chill the Dough – This is one recipe I recommend chilling the cookie dough. I try to avoid this in baking because I know we all want our cookies fast, but in my test batches these turned out with a much better flavor and texture when chilled for at least one hour.
- For Pretty Cookies – After the cookies have finished baking, take a large glass or cookie cutter (larger than the cookie) and place it over the top. Gently swirl the glass around a couple times, pushing it on the edge of the cookies to make the cookies more round. Then top each cookie with extra pieces of each mix-in, a few extra m&ms, white chocolate chips, pretzel pieces, etc. to look extra nice.
- A touch of Sea Salt – For an extra touch of salt, sprinkle a bit of flakey sea salt on top of the cookies after baking, and topping them with extra toppings 😉
Storage Instructions
Personally I think these cookies are best the first day are made, but they will stay good at room temperature for up to 3 days. Zap them in the microwave for 10-20 seconds to enjoy them warm again. Or my best advice is to instead keep the dough in your fridge, and roll up a few balls and bake the cookies fresh when you want to enjoy them.
You can also freeze the cookie dough for up to 3 months. Freeze the dough in balls on a parchment paper lined baking sheet for 1 hour, then transfer to a ziptop bag or other freezer safe container and freeze. Bake directly from frozen by adding a couple minutes extra to the baking time (they will not spread as much from frozen), or thaw them in the fridge for a few hours, then bake.
These Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies are such a fun holiday cookie! They’re loaded with so many good flavors and textures all in one incredible cookie! They’re perfect for a cozy family movie night in, or shared with friends at a Christmas party!
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Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup white baking chips
- 1 cup Christmas m&ms
- 1 cup chopped pretzels
- 1 cup chopped potato chips
- 1/4 cup Christmas sprinkles
Instructions
- Add the butter and sugars to a large bowl and beat together for about 2-3 minutes until smooth. 1 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- Add in the eggs and vanilla extract and beat until just incorporated. 2 large eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Dump in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix together until you have a soft cookie dough. 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt
- Add in the most of the mix ins, except about 2 TBS of each (Reserving to add on the cookies after they are baked). Fold them evenly into the dough. 1 cup white baking chips, 1 cup Christmas m&ms, 1 cup chopped pretzels, 1 cup chopped potato chips , 1/4 cup Christmas sprinkles
- Cover the cookie dough and place it in the fridge for at least 1 hour, up to overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking pan with parchment paper.
- Measure out the batter to be 2 heaping tablespoons. Roll the dough into balls.
- Place 6-9 cookies per cookie sheet, about 3 inches apart each.
- Place in the oven to bake for about 10-12 minutes, or until the cookie top and bottom are golden. (Mine usually take 10 minutes)
- Remove the cookies from the oven and use a large cup or round cookie cutter placed around the cookies, and gently swirl them together to make the cookies round.
- Top each cookie with extra m&ms, white chips, pretzels, and chips.
- Allow the cookies to rest on the pan for about 5 minutes.
- Remove to a cooling rack to cool completely, or enjoy warm.
While these were super easy to make they are super doooper sweet. SHe is right that you need to use a round object when they come out of the oven to keep them round as they do spread. Me, personally, think between the white chocolate and the M & M’s and the sugar in the cookie its just too much. But, they sure are festive!!!
Thank you for putting the measurements back into the step by step! Yay!!! (It’s the little things!)
We try and do this on all our recipes on this site! Glad you like it!