These compost cookies made with fresh milled flour are a great way to satisfy a sweet and salty craving! They are packed with chocolate chips, salty potato chips, crunchy pretzels, and an unexpected coffee twist. A mix of everything you crave, rolled into one delicious, crunchy-chewy bite. Plus, no chilling required!
Compost cookies are a fun spin on traditional chocolate chip cookies. They are well-loved and go by many names, including the following: kitchen sink cookies, junk drawer cookies, clean-out-the-pantry cookies, chaos cookies, everything cookies, trash can/dumpster cookies, and probably more that I’ve never even heard! Out of all of them, I love the name ‘compost cookies’, since we live on a hobby farm.
What You’ll Need To Make Compost Cookies Made With Fresh Milled Flour
Butter: For this recipe we’re going to use melted butter. When melting you want to just melt it. We don’t want it too hot. On the stove I shut off my burner when there were a few small chunks left to melt and my melted butter was around 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sugar
Brown Sugar
Vanilla Extract
Eggs
Fresh Milled Soft White Wheat Flour
Baking Soda
Baking Powder
Salt
Chocolate Chips/Chunks/Chocolate Bar: You can use any chocolate chips/chunks/candy bar you prefer.
Pretzels
Potato Chips: You can use regular or the wavy/ruffled chips, but the wavy/ruffled hold up better and are more crunchy.
Coffee Grounds
Other Fun Mix-Ins For Compost Cookies
- M&Ms
- Caramel Bits
- Butterscotch Chips
- Toffee Bits
- Chopped Nuts
- Shredded Coconut
Add baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix until combined.
Can I Chill or Freeze The Dough For Later?
Yes, you can do either if you don’t want to bake them right away. I like to use a standard cookie scoop and scoop cookies onto a parchment lined pan. You can keep them chilled in the fridge for up to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months. For freezing I like to freeze for 1-2 hours until frozen and then place in a freezer bag until ready to pull out and bake.
You can bake right away from frozen. Please note that chilled or frozen cookies may not spread as much as the dough that was baked right away, but they are just as delicious! The chilled and frozen cookies also got a little more golden than the ones baked right away.
How To Store Baked Compost Cookies
These compost cookies stay fresh in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. They also freeze well, up to 2 months.
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Compost Cookies Made With Fresh Milled Flour
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat your oven to 375℉.
- Melt your butter over low heat in a small saucepan. Make sure it's not too hot. *See note 1
- Then add melted butter, sugar, and brown sugar to your mixing bowl or stand mixer and mix until combined.
- Next add vanilla extract and eggs and mix until incorporated.
- Add baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix until combined.
- Add flour and mix until combined, but don't overmix. Then add in chocolate chips, pretzels, potato chips, and coffee grounds and mix until combined.
- Using a standard cookie scoop drop cookies about 2 inches apart on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes until edges are golden. In my oven they are done as pictured in 9 minutes. If you like yours to be a little more golden go a little longer. This will vary with preference and different ovens.
- Cool cookies for 2-3 minutes on the baking sheet and then use a spatula and move to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
When you list coffee grounds as an ingredient, do you mean instant coffee powder, or do you mean actual ground coffee beans?
Yes, actual coffee grounds. 🙂
Excuse my ignorance, but are the coffee grounds fresh/dry or used/wet?
They can be either fresh ground or dry pre-ground.
Amazing!!! Never thought all those ingredients together could be so delicious 😋
Such a good combo! Thank you!
These are sooooooo good!!!
Thanks! Happy to hear you enjoyed them!
I cannot wait to make these cookies! I am so glad I found your page and your recipes are so easy to follow and so helpful! I’ve successfully made a few things and have my first sourdough loaves ready to bake, hoping I did it all correctly!
For these cookies, can you substitute the sugar for maple syrup or honey? I wasn’t sure how that may affect hydration and what not with fresh milled. Thanks!!
That’s great! For the cookies I haven’t tried using maple syrup or honey.