Recipe – Sweet and Salty Cookies

When I lived in Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small mom-and-pop chocolate store existed in downtown.

I know you might be surprised that Grand Forks has a downtown. It’s the part of town that was washed away in the Red River Flood of 1997.

You can still see the water lines on the exterior of buildings. It’s a crazy reminder that Mother Nature always wins.

Inside this mom-and-pop chocolate store, lovingly called Widman’s Candy Shop, you can also see the 8-foot water lines on the interior walls. They left them there as a reminder of what had happened.

The water marks being present does not affect this shop’s ability to pump out some incredible treats. Their most-famous being chocolate-dipped wavy potato chips, Chippers.

I’ll let that sink in for a moment.

Those little monsters were practically the best of everything. Salty crunch dipped in delicious milk chocolate. It was divine.

So when I discovered a chocolate chip cookie recipe that called for potato chips crushed inside, I knew that I had struck gold. Eureka!

The original recipe came from Krissy’s Creations. She had me at “potato chip.” I only added half a teaspoon of the salt called for in the cookie dough. I’m glad I did, since the chips add lots of salt to the mix!

I recommend avoiding her site if you are diabetic, trying not to become diabetic, or playing The Biggest Loser with your cousins. Yet one more thing to derail those weigh-in efforts of mine…

These cookies also have pretzels inside. I’ve always been under the impression that pretzels are a health food. Am I wrong?

Give these cookies a try to find out.