Description
These decadent Buttery Popcorn Cookies combine irresistible brown sugar cookies and crunchy salted popcorn and I don’t think life can get any better.
Ingredients
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- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup popcorn kernels
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- 1 tablespoon butter (affiliate), melted
- 1/2 cup butter (affiliate), softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar (affiliate)
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla (affiliate) extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Start by popping your popcorn by heating vegetable oil in large pot over the stove. Add popcorn kernels and place lid on pot. Once popcorn starts to pop, gently shake pot to keep kernels from burning. After all kernels have popped, drizzle with melted better and sprinkle with table salt. Pick out all unpopped kernels and set aside.
- To make cookies, cream butter and sugars together until smooth.
- Add egg and vanilla and combine.
- Add flour and baking soda and stir just until flour is combined.
- Stir in popped popcorn until it is as incorporated as possible.
- Use cookie scoop or form a ball with your hands, about 2 inches in diameter.
- Place cookies onto greased baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Remove to baking rack to cool.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins