Halloween Candy Cookies

Leftover candies and bars find a new use in cookies.

Chop leftover Halloween candies and tuck the pieces into cookie dough in lieu of chocolate chips. Almost any candy will work—Butterfingers, Heath Bars, Milky Ways, Snickers, Kit Kats, M&Ms and even Twizzlers, gum drops, and jelly beans.

Ingredients: 
  

• 3 2/3  cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2  teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4  teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4  teaspoon coarse salt
• 1  cup (2 sticks) butter
• 1 1/4  cups firmly packed brown sugar
• 1  cup granulated sugar
• 2  eggs
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 to 3  cups chopped candy bits (such as Butterfingers, Baby Ruths, Heath Bars, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, jelly beans, M&Ms, Lifesavers)

Cooking Instructions:

1.  Preheat oven to 350F.

2.  Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
3.  Beat butter and sugars together with a mixer until very light, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture and mix just until combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Stir in candy bits.
4.  Drop dough by tablespoons onto baking sheet. Bake 15 to 20 minutes. Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.