Have you heard that Alabama song “If you want to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band?” If this post had a theme song it would be “If you want to impress a Texan, you gotta have Fritos on the plate.” And the Texan I’m trying to impress today? Miss Amber of Bluebonnets & Brownies. We are hosting an online virtual baby shower for her today!
Miss Amber is expecting a bouncing baby boy! I’m so excited for her and the Brit to welcome a sweet little boy. There’s nothing Miss Amber loves more than Frito chips. She did a series on her blog called Fritos Fridays where she dedicated posts to her favorite snack food. I knew I wanted to create a dessert using Fritos.
The Fritos in these cookies are awesome: they caramelize with the sugar and taste like bites of rice krispie treats inside the cookie. Insanely delicious, right?! I’m usually one of those people that can stop after just a few bites of a dessert, but I will admit, I’ve eaten at least half this batch. So, happy happy baby shower, Amber! You are so loved! Check out the other posts celebrating Amber’s impending bundle of joy:
Sugarcrafter | Breakfast Tostadas
My Kitchen Addiction | Baby Texan Cookies
My Baking Addiction | Texas Sheet Cake
Simple Bites | Grilled Shrimp Tacos with Charred Corn Salsa
Stetted | Queso Mac
Dessert For Two | Frito Chocolate Chip Cookies
Confessions of a Cookbook Queen | Coconut Tres Leches Layer Cake
TidyMom | Pizza Bread Sticks
Miss in the Kitchen | Blackberry Milkshakes
Art of Gluten Free Baking | Peach-Pecan Pie, Gluten-Free
Bon Appetit Hon | Cheddar Ranch Crackers
Food Babbles | Southern Pecan Pie
Jelly Toast | Peach Iced Tea
Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle | Decorated Elephant Cookies
i am baker | Texas Brownie Cake
The Kitchen Trials | Coca-Cola Cake
Cookies & Cups | Sticky Toffee Pudding Cookies
A Farmgirl’s Dabbles | Peanut Butter Bonbons the Size of Texas
Steph Chows | Fiesta Dip Softened butter is not room temperature. Softened butter has been sitting out at a room temperature for no more than an hour. You should be able to make your fingerprint in it. If your butter is too warm, the cookies spread too much while baking.
Frito Chocolate Chip Cookies
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What an interesting idea! I am surprised to hear the fritos caramelized – i gotta try this out!
Thanks for sharing!
These are SO fun!!! I would never have thought of such a combination… now I wont stop thinking about it until I make it! :)
Gurlllll. You killed this! I can’t wait to try these…
Seriously perfect!
These look incredible, Christina! I just know Amber will love these. Thanks so much for bringing them to Amber’s virtual shower!
Say what ..say what!! These cookies will definitely be happening in my house..
Sweet and salty, perfect combo, and perfect treat for a little man’s baby shower!
So sweet! And that song is definitely in my head now. I owe you.
Fritos in the cookies?!? Now that is just amazing awesome! So killer!
Ooh I think I saw these on your instagram feed – and have wanted to eat one ever since! Now I can, yum.
Fritos in chocolate chip cookies? Who would’ve guessed? But hey, I love a good sweet and salty combo!
Coming from a huge Fritos fan I’m thinking these cookies must rock. Sweet and salty makes me perfectly content! Congratulations to Amber. I’ve been checking out the other recipes – delish!!
Fritos in cookies? This recipe is blowing my mind! I need to try these, thanks so much for sharing!!
So. I hate Fritos. But something tells me my tune would change if i tried these cookies! They look awesome!
Can I tell you a secret, Kayle? Me too. The smell is not great to me. I don’t mind them in chili occasionally. But I couldn’t stop eating these cookies! These cookies turned me into a frito lover (but only covered in sugar and baked) ;)
As soon as I saw the title of your blog post, I immediately thought of Amber. She will LOVE these. And, while I don’t eat many Fritos, I think I may have to pick up a bag to give these a try myself. Thanks so much for participating in the virtual shower! :)
Tina, be still my heart! You know me so well, darlin’, and everyone’s right, I LOVE these cookies. I can’t wait to make them. I haven’t done a Fritos Friday in ages, and that’s just wrong. Thank you for the inspiration to get back into it. Thank you so much for celebrating Evan. Your friendship is like a breath of fresh air, I always smile when I have an email from you, even if we’re both venting to each other! Love ya x
Oh these cookies look amazing – perfect for a baby shower! Huge congrats to Amber!!
You are too cute!! Love Fritos!! (My mil dips them in peanut butter which is totally weird!!)
Now I will be singing Alabama all day with the word Fritos inserted! That is my little guy’s favorite song in the whole world, so I will have to sing it for him.
Love these cookies, absolutely perfect!!
Brilliant! I would have never thought about putting fritos in cookies.
Do you know how many of these I would eat!!? Too, too many…lordy.
Oh my, these sound insanely delicious! Salty-sweet combos rock my world. Thank goodness this recipe yields a relatively small batch – otherwise, I’d be in major trouble. Congratulations to Amber!
Fritos in a cookie? Mind = blown.
These cookies are epic! Can’t wait to whip some up for tailgating season!!
What a fun way to celebrate Amber and the baby. Love these cookies!!
You are such a sweet and thoughtful friend and these cookies are amazing! I’m sure Amber and her Frito-loving self just adore them!
Ok, first, I think I need to move to Texas. Everything sounds so fun and very traditional. I love it! Second, I kind of did a double take at these cookies. But the sweet and salty combination is my absolute favorite so I know I’d just die for these. I’d probably scarf them all down if I were at a shower. Then hide my face for being such a pig in public.
Congratulations to Amber! These cookies look just perfect – that combo of salty and sweet gets me every time.
This recipe is absolute genius! I will not be able to stop thinking about it until they’re in my belly!
Oh-mah-gosh! What a fun way to celebrate for a baby shower! Love this salty-sweet idea in a cookie, Christina. The Big Lug adores Fritos and I bet these cookies as well! Thanks ever so much for sharing, girl!
And after three attempts, success just in time! You’re such a sweetheart :-)
Guess who introduced me to Fritos? Amber. Yep. She brought a bag across borders for me to try. Sound like our girl?
Great cookies!!
Of course! I love that Alabama song!! What an awesome cookie to celebrate Amber and her little one on the way!!
Wow!! I am SO making these cookies! It’s just crazy enough to work ;) Love! And you’re 100% right that Amber would love these. As soon as I read the title, I thought of her Fritos Friday posts. Yum!
Fritos. In. Cookies. *mind blown* Best cookie EVERRRR!
I want to give birth to these cookies.
I have no idea what that means.
Ha, I love that song! And those cookies look pretty fantastic … sweet and salty is such a great combo in cookies.
The sweet and salty in these would DEFINITELY keep me coming back for cookie after cookie!! Congrats to Amber!!
This is beyond genius. LOVE.
Awww, so sweet! I love virtual baby showers :) And, seriously, what an ingenious cookie!!
OMG … These cookies are mind blowing! Must make em sooooooon.
What a creative use of Fritos — and a thoughtful recipe for the virtual baby shower. I’ve had potato chip cookies before, and they were fantastic. I imagine these would have that similar salty-sweet balance. Yum!
oh the PERFECT cookies for Amber!!! I’m SO intrigued I’m going to have to give them a try.
This recipe makes me nervous, but kind of reminds me of those corn flake and marshmallow cookies everybody loves so much. So I know this must be good. I like a little surprise crunch in my cookies. Very unique and clever recipe. I think I have to test these out for myself.
Salty, sweet, chewy AND crunchy? COUNT ME IN!
Salty and sweet are the best combo in my book!
Oh wow. You’ve convinced me! These look so yum! I love the sweet-salty combo–one of my favorites!
This is so creative! And with the crunchy salty-sweet combo, a definite improvement to the plain old chocolate chip cookie! Scrumptious-looking photos too :)
I love this Texas take on chocolate chip cookies! That sweet-salty flavor is killing me… I can practically taste them!
Sent these to my mama because she’s obsessed with Fritos. She can’t wait to make them.
Oh my gosh. I’m more than just a little jealous that you thought to celebrate Amber’s shower with a Frito dessert. Such a perfect recipe for our dear friend.
Eek, these look SO rad. Amber is one lucky mama-to-be!
Oh my god! This is genius :) I love it!!
I’ve made these three times. The first time I left them in the over to long. Good but a little to crunchy. Second time I used half white sugar and half brown sugar. Better but I still left them in the over to long and still a little crunchy (they just didn’t look done in 10-12 minutes). Third time I used a whole egg instead of just the egg yolk. Big mistake. Changed the texture and are way to chewy now! They also spread out a lot. Sigh. Forth time will be the charm!
Hi Jackie :)
Why not make them the way the recipes has them, but just decrease the baking time since your oven runs hot? I also played around with the egg ratio quite a bit when I was developing this recipe. With the entire egg, the cookies spread like crazy. Not sure if you follow me on Instagram, but I posted these cookies batch by batch with all adjustments I made along the way. The recipe I posted here is just perfect :) I will say that I took these cookies out of the oven when they were still fairly pale with only a few brown spots. They don’t look done to most people, but that gives them the best chewy texture. Chewy + cruchy Fritos = winning :)
Happy baking~
Christina
My oven is ok, I just have a habit of over cooking/baking things! I added the whole egg in part because I wasn’t paying attention but also because the dough with just the yolk seemed dry and I figured I’d see what happened. Half the fun of baking is tweeking the recipe to see what happens! Definitely will use just the yolk next time though!
National Corn Chip day is coming up on jan 29 – these look pretty awesome for it.
I’ve tried A LOT of your recipes, and this one just didn’t do it for me. Now, I have to admit that I used Tortilla chips as opposed to Fritos, however, I still found the recipe over-sweet.
Made these today and LOVED them! Loved how the Fritos caramelized and became just the littlest bit chewy, loved how the bottom of the cookie was just a little bit crunchy while the top stayed soft, loved how the sweetness of the chocolate played off the saltiness of the Fritos. Delicious!!!