These Milky Approach cookies are absolutely loaded with melty Milky Approach 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 Approach bars, however you can also make these cookies with any mix-ins you’d like. And when you 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 top pan, also called a whoopie pan (as a result of you can even use it to bake whoopie pies). One of these pan has shallow wells slightly 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 Approach cookies baked in a muffin high pan.
- Gentle and moist. I make these cookies with extra brown sugar than white sugar, so that they’re additional moist and chewy. Much more so since we depart them barely underbaked, for the proper soft-baked texture.
- Loaded with chocolate. In case you’re unfamiliar, Milky Approach 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 proper alternative for an extra-thick cookie!
Elements You’ll Want
These Milky Approach 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 right down to the printable recipe card after the put up for the complete checklist with quantities.
- Butter – I all the time bake with salted butter, however you should use unsalted when you choose. Carry 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 Elements – 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 happy to substitute your alternative of sweet bars or chocolate chips if wanted.
Although we’re baking these Milky Approach cookies in a unique sort of pan, the strategy to combine the dough is similar as any of my favourite cookie recipes. And when you don’t have a muffin high 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 high pan with baking spray. Then, place a parchment spherical into the underside of every properly, 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 properly. 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 fastidiously loosen the perimeters and pop them out onto a wire rack.
Can I Make These as Drop Cookies As an alternative?
Sure! Should you don’t have a muffin high pan, you’ll be able to bake these Milky Approach cookies as common drop cookies on a lined baking sheet. You’ll have to 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 Ideas 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 heart. 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 advised 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’ll be able to comply with the directions in my brown butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.
- Add frosting. Frost these cookies with chocolate frosting or traditional vanilla buttercream.
The way 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! Hold 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 significantly 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. (Reduce 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 clean, scraping the edges of the bowl as obligatory.
- Flip the mixer to low and add within the flour. When simply blended 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 perimeters are golden and the middle is JUST set.
- Take away from oven and let cool in pan for five minutes. Loosen the perimeters with a knife and flip the cookies onto a wire cooling rack.
Notes
- Should you make these with out utilizing a muffin high 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).
