Oh. My. Gosh.
These cookies are insane. I mean, seriously. These are probably the best cookies I've ever had in my entire life. And I've had a lot of cookies.
The idea behind these cookies came when I saw a recipe on Pinterest for cookie dough flavored popcorn and I thought "Hey, what if I reverse that?" And then shortly after "Hey, why don't I put other favorite movie-time treats in the cookies too?" Because, you know, I'm a cookie-holic and I can't just settle for popcorn in my cookies. No, no, no. I also need to stuff them with Milk Duds, Raisinets and Goobers, plus more chocolate chips and a vanilla fleur de sel to emphasize the sweet/salty going on from the popcorn. It's a super fun and silly flavor explosion and I adore it.
To be completely honest with you, my original idea was to not stop there, but to also add gummy bears and Mike and Ike's, but then I came to my senses and realized I needed to draw the line somewhere. Maybe next time... for now, I think this buttery, caramel, raisin, peanut, chocolate, salty deliciousness will have to do!
Do you play the Sims? I don't really play much, but I absolutely love it. At first, I was really excited to hear about the release of Sims 4 until I realized there would be pools or toddlers. What the what?! I'll just keep my Sims 3 for now. Well, if you play, you know that when sims learn a skill, they get the blue bar above their heads and it fills as they go up a skill level. I kiiiiiind of feel like that with my photography and editing skills thanks to the help of tons of videos and books. I don't post recipes in the order I make them, so some recipes may be months old while others were created that weekend. I feel as though something clicked and I am much more confident on how I go about it. Now, I just need to figure out my styling which I think won't be too bad as long as I remember to plan things out a little and not just start shooting and trying to figure things out on the fly. I mean how cute would it have been to get my old fashioned movie theater popcorn bowl and an overload of popcorn and leftover candy all around. Too bad I ate all the leftovers while I was baking. Oops. Next time I'll behave, I promise!
Now, back to the cookies..
Recipe Card
Movie Theater Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter room temperature
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 ½ cups popped buttered popcorn must be microwave popcorn
- 1 1.2 cups mixed Milk Duds Raisinets, Goobers and semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon fleur de sel I used one that was infused with vanilla or coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Beat the butter until light and creamy. Mix in the sugars and beat until the mixture fluffy. Add in the egg and vanilla and mix until fully incorporated.
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt together. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until incorporated.
- Fold in the popcorn. It will seem like a lot of popcorn at first, but it will breakdown. Fold in the candy.
- Plop heaping tablespoons (mine were closer to 1 ½ tablespoons) on your baking sheet at least an inch apart. Bake for 12 - 14 minutes, or until golden brown. Top with a sprinkling of fleur de del or coarse sea salt
Alyson Roseman says
This looks delicious! Thank you for posting - quick questions though:
1. How many cookies does this make?
2. What do you mean by "1 1.2 cups candy?"
Thanks again! Can't wait to try them 🙂
Amanda says
Hi Alyson, this recipe should make 20ish cookies (we did a lot of snacking on the dough and finished cookies along the way) that should read 1 1/2 cups. Thanks for pointing out that typo!
Alyson Roseman says
No problem! As soon as I posted this, I thought "it's probably just 1.5 cups" :p (my bad!)
Thanks so much for info on cookie amount and for clarifying chocolate amount!! I greatly appreciate it and am super excited to make these 🙂
Carrie @Frugal Foodie Mama says
Wowzers! These cookies sound amazing! 🙂 I love the addition of popcorn in these- genius!
Candi Elm says
I just love cookies, these look great. I never heard of this before. But it has all the right ingredients.
Laura @MotherWouldKnow says
These cookies are so creative - what fun! Why does the popcorn have to the microwave kind? I'm seriously tempted to try them - only problem is that I would have to go get candy, which means I would eat all of the candy leftover after making the cookies.
Amanda says
I usually make my popcorn on the stovetop and eat it plain (with nothing added) or a bit of salt. The microwave popcorn has that buttery/salty taste you can't get with stove or air popped popcorn. Of course, you can also bring home an extra bag of popcorn when you go out to the movies! I got the small boxes of candies from my grocery store, so I didn't have TOO much candy leftover. You can also maybe just pick one or two of your favorite movie theatre candies to use instead of all of the ones I mentioned!
Suzanne @ Flour Arrangements says
Wow! Love all these treats packed up in one little cookie.
Amanda says
They are truly so good. You'll love them!
Christine says
What pray tell are goobers? 🙂 I love this idea! Chocolate covered EVERYTHING in a COOKIE!
Amanda says
Goobers, my lovely, are a brand of chocolate covered peanuts and they are just wonderful!!