Hy-Vee Recipes and Ideas

Cut the sweetness with salty, crunchy potato chips—it might sound surprising, but it works. Just add 3 to 4 cups of crushed chips to your favorite cookie dough recipe. We like them with a really sweet cookie, like butterscotch.  

We know marshmallows and graham work together in cookies—especially how the marshmallows melt and ooze out of the cookie—but now try adding crushed peppermint. It's a cookie game-changer.

Juice and all, chopped chocolate-covered cherries give your cookies a whole new holiday-ish flavor. Or try chopped maraschino cherries and cherry juice, like in these icebox cookies.

Mixing lemon or lime zest with the sugar before you bake cookies is one of our favorite tricks. 

Chopping up assorted chocolates and mixing them into cookie dough promises variety in every cookie... in other words, you never know what you're going to get.

We tested this trick using crushed Life Savers candies. Finely crush and roll them on top of basic sugar cookie dough—store-bought or homemade. You'll be addicted to this new fruity-flavored cookie.

There's more than just chocolate chips on the shelf. Peanut butter, butterscotch, white chocolate, vanilla, creme de menthe, and even cherry chips.