Wednesday 4 June 2014

Buttered Popcorn Cookies











Any recipe that involves popcorn and cookie dough is number one with a bullet in my house.



Buttered Popcorn Cookies
slightly adapted from Deb Perelman's Smitten Kitchen
Makes 24

2 tablespoons sunflower oil
45g popcorn kernels
1/4 teaspoon fine salt (I used Pink Himalaya)
15g butter, melted
115g unsalted butter, softened
100g light brown sugar
65g caster sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
155g plain flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Make the Popcorn:
Put the oil in a large saucepan, swirl to coat the bottom of the pan and add the popcorn kernels. Make sure the kernels are in one layer. Cover the pan with a tight fitting lid and heat the pan over medium-high heat. Once the kernels start to pop start shaking the pan and keep moving and shaking the pan until the popping stops. Remove the pan from the heat, sprinkle the salt over the popcorn, add the melted butter, give it a toss to coat and then transfer to a bowl to cool.

Make the Cookies:
Preheat the oven to 180C.  Line two large baking sheets with baking paper.

In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, both sugars, egg and vanilla until smooth and creamy.

In a separate bowl, sift the flour and baking soda together. With the mixer on low, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture. Mix until just combined. Turn the mixer off and fold in the popcorn with a spatula. It will feel like there is too much popcorn, but continue to mix until the popcorn to coated in cookie dough.

Take heaped tablespoon-size pieces of dough and roll them into balls. Place them on the prepared baking sheets and bake for 10 - 12 minutes, until the edges are golden brown. Take them out of the oven and leave them on the hot baking sheet for 5 minutes to firm up before transferring them to a wire rack to cool.

17 comments:

  1. Oh my...I have never thought of adding popcorn to cookies. Amazing, I'll be making these for sure!

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  2. Popcorn in cookies??? Wow, I never would have thought of this. Really nice :)

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  3. LOVE these. They are a favorite in our house!

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    1. I'm following in your footsteps. Can't believe it took me so long to get around to making them.

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  4. I just wrote a comment and it disappeared. Wah. Anyway, anything from SK is a winner in my book. Deb can do no wrong (and neither can you, you domestic goddess!). Love the idea of popcorn cookies... snap, crackle, crunch and savour. Yum!

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    1. I don't know what happened to your first comment. It's happened to me on other blogs and drives me nuts. Sorry about that. SK is one of the first food blogs I discovered and is still one of my faves. Her book is lovely. Full of great food and funny Debisms. Popcorn in cookies is my new religion.

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  5. These look delicious! I love the idea of using popcorn for sweet treats too! I will have to try them. :-)

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    1. Thanks Manu. Popcorn goes amazingly well with cookie dough!!!

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  6. Everything is right about these cookies.

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  7. Can You use already popped corn? If so how many cups. Also can you give the american equivalent of the amounts? and also the temperature of the oven

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  8. Can I chill this dough in advance do you think? If so would I add popcorn before or after that step?

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    1. If you chill the dough, add the popcorn after. Otherwise you might risk the popcorn going soggy.

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