These Milky Means cookies are absolutely loaded with melty Milky Means 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 Means bars, however you can also make these cookies with any mix-ins you’d like. And if you happen to love an uber-thick cookie recipe, try my cookie cups filled with Reese’s Cups, subsequent!
The key to those “deep-dish” Milky Means cookies is a muffin top pan, often known as a whoopie pan (as a result of you too can use it to bake whoopie pies). This kind of pan has shallow wells somewhat 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 revealed in 2011. The photographs 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 Means 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 Means 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 selection for an extra-thick cookie!
Elements You’ll Want
These Milky Means cookies name for just a few simple components that, collectively, give the cookies the final word chewy texture. Try my notes right here, and scroll all the way down to the printable recipe card after the submit for the total listing with quantities.
Butter – I all the time bake with salted butter, however you should utilize unsalted if you happen to desire. Convey the butter to room temperature earlier than you begin.
Sugar – Similar to my chewy chocolate chip cookies, these Milky Means 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 Means Bars – I exploit 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.
The way to Make Milky Means Cookies
Despite the fact that we’re baking these Milky Means cookies in a unique type of pan, the strategy to combine the dough is identical as any of my favourite cookie recipes. And if you happen to don’t have a muffin high pan, I’ve you lined 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.Add the dry components.
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 Means items simply because the dough comes collectively.
Fold within the Milky Means bars.Fill the pan and bake!
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 Means 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! In the event you don’t have a muffin high pan, you may bake these Milky Means 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 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 Means cookies from the oven after they’re JUST set within the heart. They’ll proceed to arrange within the pan afterward.
Totally 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 prompt 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 Means cookies, brown the butter beforehand. You’ll be able to comply with the directions in my brown butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.
These Milky Means cookies are additional thick and chewy, baked deep-dish-style in a muffin high pan! They’re loaded with melty Milky Means 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 Means 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 calmly. 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 vital.
Flip the mixer to low and add within the flour. When simply combined collectively, fold in your chopped Milky Means.
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
In the event 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).
