These Milky Approach cookies are absolutely loaded with melty Milky Approach chocolate bars, and further thick and chewy. The key? Bake your cookies deep-dish-style, in a muffin-top pan!
I selected nougat-and-caramel-filled Milky Approach bars, however you can also make these cookies with any mix-ins you’d like. And for those who love an uber-thick cookie recipe, take a look at my cookie cups filled with Reese’s Cups, subsequent!
The key to those “deep-dish” Milky Approach cookies is a muffin high pan, often known as a whoopie pan (as a result of you may as well use it to bake whoopie pies). One of these pan has shallow wells relatively than a flat sheet, ensuing within the thickest, soft-baked, chocolate-filled cookies ever. You’ve by no means had a cookie like this earlier than!
*This recipe was initially printed in 2011. The pictures and useful ideas have been up to date in 2025. The recipe stays the identical!
- Double the thickness. Even the thickest cookie baked on a baking sheet may solely dream of being as thick and gooey as these Milky Approach cookies baked in a muffin high pan.
- Smooth and moist. I make these cookies with extra brown sugar than white sugar, in order that they’re additional moist and chewy. Much more so since we go away them barely underbaked, for the proper soft-baked texture.
- Loaded with chocolate. In case you’re unfamiliar, Milky Approach is a kind of sweet bar with nougat smothered with caramel and a layer of milk chocolate. Sure, it’s as indulgent because it sounds. And, sure, it’s the proper alternative for an extra-thick cookie!
Substances You’ll Want
These Milky Approach cookies name for a couple of simple components that, collectively, give the cookies the last word chewy texture. Try my notes right here, and scroll all the way down to the printable recipe card after the put up for the complete record with quantities.
- Butter – I at all times bake with salted butter, however you should utilize unsalted for those who want. Convey the butter to room temperature earlier than you begin.
- Sugar – Similar to my chewy chocolate chip cookies, these Milky Approach cookies use each brown sugar and white sugar.
- Eggs and Vanilla –The eggs may also be at room temperature.
- Dry Substances – Baking soda, salt, and all-purpose flour.
- Milky Approach Bars – I take advantage of the fun-sized bars and chop them roughly. You are able to do the identical with full-size bars. Be at liberty to substitute your alternative of sweet bars or chocolate chips if wanted.
Though we’re baking these Milky Approach cookies in a distinct sort of pan, the tactic to combine the dough is identical as any of my favourite cookie recipes. And for those who don’t have a muffin high pan, I’ve you coated with baking sheet directions beneath. Scroll to the recipe card for the printable directions.
- Prep. Whereas the oven preheats to 350ºF, coat your muffin high pan with baking spray. Then, place a parchment spherical into the underside of every effectively, and spray once more.
- Combine the moist components. Begin by creaming the butter and sugars collectively, then slowly combine within the eggs and vanilla till mixed.
- Add dry components. With the mixer on low, add the dry components. Lastly, fold within the Milky Approach items simply because the dough comes collectively.
- Fill the pan and bake. Press about ¼ cup of cookie dough into every lined effectively. Bake the cookies at 350ºF for 13-Quarter-hour till they’re set on the edges, and nonetheless barely underbaked within the center.
- Cool. Let these Milky Approach cookies relaxation within the pan for a couple of minutes, then rigorously loosen the sides and pop them out onto a wire rack.
Can I Make These as Drop Cookies As a substitute?
Sure! When you don’t have a muffin high pan, you may bake these Milky Approach cookies as common drop cookies on a lined baking sheet. You’ll must scoop much less dough on this case, about 1 rounded tablespoon per cookie. Bake them for 8-9 minutes at 350ºF, or till the cookies are golden on the edges.
Baking Suggestions and Variations
- Don’t overbake the cookies. The important thing to soft-baked, thick, and chewy cookies is ensuring that you just don’t overbake them! Leaving cookies within the oven too lengthy causes them to dry out. Pull these Milky Approach cookies from the oven once they’re JUST set within the middle. They’ll proceed to arrange within the pan afterward.
- Completely different ovens bake in a different way. I give a variety for the baking time on this recipe. Since some ovens run hotter than others, I like to recommend checking the cookies on the earliest urged time (13 minutes for deep-dish cookies, 8 minutes for normal cookies). This avoids overbaking.
- Brown the butter. For an excellent richer taste in these Milky Approach cookies, brown the butter beforehand. You possibly can observe the directions in my brown butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.
- Add frosting. Frost these cookies with chocolate frosting or traditional vanilla buttercream.
Tips on how to Retailer
- At room temperature. Retailer the Milky Approach cookies in an hermetic container on the counter for as much as 4 days.
- Freeze. These cookies freeze nice! Maintain them in a freezer bag and freeze them for as much as 3 months. Thaw the cookies at room temperature.
Description
These Milky Approach cookies are additional thick and chewy, baked deep-dish-style in a muffin high pan! They’re loaded with melty Milky Approach sweet bars and are critically irresistible.
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup darkish brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 giant eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 (11.24 ounces) bag of fun-sized Milky Approach bars, chopped
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Put together your muffin pan by first spraying with cooking spray, subsequent lining every tin with a parchment spherical. (Minimize the parchment to slot in the underside of the pan) after which spraying the parchment once more frivolously. Put aside.
- Combine the butter and sugars collectively in your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment for two minutes. Add within the eggs, vanilla, baking soda, and sea salt and blend for 30 seconds, or till mixed and easy, scraping the edges of the bowl as crucial.
- Flip the mixer to low and add within the flour. When simply combined collectively, fold in your chopped Milky Approach.
- Press 1/4 cup the cookie dough into every muffin high and bake for 13-Quarter-hour till the sides are golden and the middle is JUST set.
- Take away from oven and let cool in pan for five minutes. Loosen the sides with a knife and flip the cookies onto a wire cooling rack.
Notes
- When you make these with out utilizing a muffin high pan, line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat. House the cookies out 2 inches aside and drop by rounded tablespoons onto the baking sheet. Bake for 8-9 minutes till edges are golden.
- This recipe makes roughly 12-15 “deep-dish” cookies, or 24 common drop cookies (large-size).
