These Milky Method cookies are totally loaded with melty Milky Method chocolate bars, and additional thick and chewy. The key? Bake your cookies deep-dish-style, in a muffin-top pan!
I selected nougat-and-caramel-filled Milky Method bars, however you may make these cookies with any mix-ins you’d like. And when you love an uber-thick cookie recipe, try my cookie cups filled with Reese’s Cups, subsequent!
The key to those “deep-dish” Milky Method cookies is a muffin prime pan, also referred to as a whoopie pan (as a result of you may also use it to bake whoopie pies). Any such pan has shallow wells fairly 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 suggestions have been up to date in 2025. The recipe stays the identical!
- Double the thickness. Even the thickest cookie baked on a baking sheet might solely dream of being as thick and gooey as these Milky Method cookies baked in a muffin prime 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 right soft-baked texture.
- Loaded with chocolate. In case you’re unfamiliar, Milky Method is a sort 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 right selection for an extra-thick cookie!
Substances You’ll Want
These Milky Method cookies name for a couple of straightforward 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 total record with quantities.
- Butter – I at all times bake with salted butter, however you should use unsalted when you choose. Deliver the butter to room temperature earlier than you begin.
- Sugar – Similar to my chewy chocolate chip cookies, these Milky Method cookies use each brown sugar and white sugar.
- Eggs and Vanilla –The eggs can be at room temperature.
- Dry Substances – Baking soda, salt, and all-purpose flour.
- Milky Method 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 selection of sweet bars or chocolate chips if wanted.
Regardless that we’re baking these Milky Method cookies in a special form of pan, the strategy to combine the dough is identical as any of my favourite cookie recipes. And when you don’t have a muffin prime pan, I’ve you coated with baking sheet directions under. Scroll to the recipe card for the printable directions.
- Prep. Whereas the oven preheats to 350ºF, coat your muffin prime pan with baking spray. Then, place a parchment spherical into the underside of every nicely, 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 Method items simply because the dough comes collectively.
- Fill the pan and bake. Press about ¼ cup of cookie dough into every lined nicely. 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 Method cookies relaxation within the pan for a couple of minutes, then fastidiously loosen the sides and pop them out onto a wire rack.
Can I Make These as Drop Cookies As an alternative?
Sure! When you don’t have a muffin prime pan, you possibly can bake these Milky Method 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 simply don’t overbake them! Leaving cookies within the oven too lengthy causes them to dry out. Pull these Milky Method cookies from the oven once they’re JUST set within the heart. They’ll proceed to arrange within the pan afterward.
- Completely different ovens bake in another 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 advised time (13 minutes for deep-dish cookies, 8 minutes for normal cookies). This avoids overbaking.
- Brown the butter. For a fair richer taste in these Milky Method cookies, brown the butter beforehand. You possibly can comply with the directions in my brown butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.
- Add frosting. Frost these cookies with chocolate frosting or basic vanilla buttercream.
Tips on how to Retailer
- At room temperature. Retailer the Milky Method cookies in an hermetic container on the counter for as much as 4 days.
- Freeze. These cookies freeze nice! Hold them in a freezer bag and freeze them for as much as 3 months. Thaw the cookies at room temperature.
Description
These Milky Method cookies are additional thick and chewy, baked deep-dish-style in a muffin prime pan! They’re loaded with melty Milky Method sweet bars and are significantly irresistible.
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup darkish brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 massive 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 Method 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. (Lower the parchment to slot in the underside of the pan) after which spraying the parchment once more flippantly. 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 clean, scraping the perimeters of the bowl as essential.
- Flip the mixer to low and add within the flour. When simply blended collectively, fold in your chopped Milky Method.
- Press 1/4 cup the cookie dough into every muffin prime 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 prime pan, line your baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat. Area 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).
