These Milky Approach cookies are totally 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 may make these cookies with any mix-ins you’d like. And in the event you love an uber-thick cookie recipe, take a look at my cookie cups full of 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 it’s also possible to 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 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.
Smooth 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 right 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 right alternative for an extra-thick cookie!
Components 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 right 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 need to use unsalted in the event you choose. Convey the butter to room temperature earlier than you begin.
Sugar – Identical to my chewy chocolate chip cookies, these Milky Approach cookies use each brown sugar and white sugar.
Eggs and Vanilla –The eggs can be at room temperature.
Dry Components – 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.
Tips on how to Make Milky Approach Cookies
Regardless that we’re baking these Milky Approach cookies in a distinct form of pan, the tactic to combine the dough is similar as any of my favourite cookie recipes. And in the event you 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 nicely, 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 Approach items simply because the dough comes collectively.
Fold within the Milky Approach bars.Fill the pan and bake!
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 Approach cookies relaxation within the pan for a couple of minutes, then rigorously loosen the perimeters and pop them out onto a wire rack.
Can I Make These as Drop Cookies As a substitute?
Sure! For those who don’t have a muffin high pan, you possibly can 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 Ideas 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 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 another way. I give a spread for the baking time on this recipe. Since some ovens run hotter than others, I like to recommend checking the cookies on the earliest steered time (13 minutes for deep-dish cookies, 8 minutes for normal cookies). This avoids overbaking.
Brown the butter. For a good richer taste in these Milky Approach cookies, brown the butter beforehand. You’ll be able to observe the directions in my brown butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.
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 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 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 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 mandatory.
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 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
For those who 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).
