These will be the easiest cookies you’ll ever make. Only 6 ingredients that you probably already have in your kitchen. Plus Butterfingers.
A lot of Butterfingers. No chilling the dough, no waiting around. Cookies in 15 minutes flat. Perfect for those of us lacking any sort of cookie patience. Or any patience, for that matter. 😉
When I want a cookie, I want a cookie NOW. They’re thick, puffy, oozing with crispy, sticky Butterfingers. They stand the real cookie test: remaining super soft and chewy, even the next day.
They are one of my most requested cookie recipes and could not be easier! 🙂
PrintChewy Butterfinger Cookies
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 30 cookies
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
The BEST and easiest cookie recipe – filled with Butterfingers. Chewy and delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 and 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (8 Tbsp; 113g) salted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 8 fun sized Butterfinger candy bars, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C).Â
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in small bowl and set aside. With an electric mixer, beat sugar and butter until creamy. Beat in egg until just combined.
- Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in butterfinger pieces by hand. The dough will be very thick. Drop by slightly rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- Make Ahead & Freezing Instructions: Cookies stay fresh covered at room temperature for up to 1 week. Baked cookies freeze well—up to three months. Unbaked cookie dough balls freeze well—up to three months. Bake frozen cookie dough balls for an extra minute, no need to thaw. Read my tips and tricks on how to freeze cookie dough.
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Could I use kit kat instead?
OMG, I just had to make these, because the look so good. I don’t know what I did wrong though, they taste really bland. So sad, I am sure it is something I did, and not the recipe.
Same experience!Â
Oh My Goodness! These are EXCELLENT!!!! Can’t wait to share at an office party tomorrow!!! I left the first batch a little too long, but the remaining batches are scrumptious! … Yummmmmm
p.s. – Super Easy … Like the very few ingredients too! : )
Just took these out of the oven. WOW! They are awesome! Thank you for the recipe!
Sally .Delicious 🙂 our sister Cheryl Kroyer has always been an excellant baker/ chef,this past holiday season We baked lots and lots of chewy delicious butterfinger and caramel centered snickerdoodles and sent them to our AIRMEN and WOMEN,as you would have guessed they LOVED them and couldn’t get enough,I can’t thank you enough for your recipes.So I thought I would quadruple the recipe today to share with Our Grandchildren (12 of them) and friends,and not certain where I went wrong I followed your recipe exactly just as before and they are not flat and chewy they are more like a puffy shortbread cookie,they are delicious just not what I expected,do you have idea as to what I can do to perfect this recipe.Lesson learned I believe is to make one batch at a time.
Sally,
I just made these and I love them! My entire family agrees! Thank you for sharing your gift. I have enjoyed every recipe I’ve tried so far.
Dear Sally –
I just found your blog – LOVE IT! Thank you so much for this particular cookie recipe. (Chewy Butterfinger Cookies) My daughter absolutely ADORES Butterfingers. (we all do) but neither she nor my hubby like peanut-butter cookies (go figure!?? they sure take after one another) So even tho I personally DO love peanut butter cookies AND oatmeal ones too (so your other Soft Butterfinger cookie recipe with PB and quick oats in it is MY kind of heaven!) this here is the cookie recipe I will make for my family most often. Thanks again for sharing your experience and your wonderful recipe ideas with all of us. You inspire me!
I made these tonight, but I used gluten free all-purpose flour (I have a daughter with Celiac). GF flour gives baked goods a little bit of a different taste, so next time I might up the sugar a little bit or add in a couple more butterfinger bars, but they were still great! I think tomorrow I might make some chocolate ganache to drizzle over the top, but I will definitely make these again 🙂
Hi Wendy! I’m so glad that these worked with GF flour. Thank you for reporting back, I know some readers will be happy to know that!
Just made these! They are very good. I have a propane gas oven so I’m not sure if that makes a difference but I think it tends to run hotter than a regular gas or electric oven. The first batch I did burned on 375 and I only had them in maybe 5 mins! Ah! So the next batch, I baked on 350, for 9 mins and they came out perfect! I had to add the extra egg too, to the batter as well. Next time I will add more butterfingers but I can tell this will be a popular cookie in my house! I doubt there will be any left tonight! Thanks for the recipe!
Made these today and they turned out perfectly. After reading other comments I added a scant 1/4 c. brown sugar, but I don’t think I really needed it. The batter wasn’t dry at all. It was nice and soft and came together well. The cookies were a bit crispy on the outside and chewy inside. Perfect! This made 30 large 3″ cookies, which is great for us. But if I take them anywhere I will make them smaller so they will go farther. Could probably get close to 4 dozen out of one recipe. I will def be adding more butterfingers next time. LOL Thanks so much for this delicious recipe.
Hi Beverly! I’m glad they turned out for you – I’ve never had to add additional sugar to the dough. Making them smaller is a great idea – that would definitely work. Thanks so much for reporting back!
I gave my husband some options for cookies he would like me to bake; THE Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cranberry white chocolate chip cookies, Cake batter confetti chocolate chip cookies, Chewy Butterfinger Cookies or my chocolate chip cookies that he has NEVER turned down!! He chose Chewy Butterfinger Cookies! Which is good, because I already bought the butterfingers today 🙂
Making these as well. So I only discovered your website a few days ago. I usually dont follow food blogs, never really saw a need when I could get recipes online (I LOVE TO BAKE and try new recipes). When I found this website, I was surprisingly thrilled! Such great pictures, recipes and I like the way the descriptions are written. Makes me want to lick the picture on the computer screen! HA! I typically dont keep the baked goods I make in the house-they will get eaten too fast by my husband and I. So I send them to work with him, his co workers love me 🙂
thanks again for the great website and keep those recipes coming!
So I am more of a cook then a baker, but I just had to try this recipe. My husband and son just love these cookies. I have made it three times and each time most of them are gone once school is out and husband is home from work. I had to hide them last time I made them. Great recipe and very easy to make.
Hi Maggie! The milky way pieces are frozen because of the caramel. The caramel would be a huge mess over the cookie if they are not frozen – even more melty than they already are when frozen. Butterfingers aren’t as prone to melting with no caramel inside, so there is no reason or need to freeze.
I just made these and they turned out great! I read the comments beforehand about the dough being to dry so instead of leveling off the measuring cups of flower, i put slightly less in each one and it turned out perfect!
I was wondering…how many does this recipe make? I am planning on making them for a Cookie Exchange party that I am going to this week. Wanted to know if I need to double or triple the recipe. Thanks!
Oops! I was looking at the bottom of the recipe to tell me how many! I see it at the top now!
I made these today and they turned out great! The dough was super dry and crumbly before I added the Butterfingers though. I added an extra egg and that firmed things up quite a bit. Great, simple recipe – definitely a keeper!
Hi Judy! So glad the cookies still worked out for you – the dough is supposed to be on the drier side. Love these cookies! i need to make them again ASAP 🙂
These just came out of the oven… perfection!!
I doubled the batch and it came out great. It did seem like a lot of flour but with my stand mixer, it incorporated just fine.
Thank you for the fabulous recipe!
Just made these! They are finishing cooling at this moment, but from the tiny bite I sneaked, they are delicious! Very easy, and they look just like the picture. Thanks for a yummy recipe! Since it was so quick and simple I think ill be experimenting with other candies. Do you think it would work if you start with this cookie base and add ANY candy bar/candy to it?
Thanks again!
Hi Christine! I’m so glad to hear that – these cookies are always a winner! You may definitely use other candy bars in this recipe. In fact, I’ve made them with chooclate bars, snickers, and Oreos before! They aren’t recipes on my blog though. Have fun with it! This is a great “base” recipe.
my husbands fav candy bar is butterfinger, these cookies are sooo goood. thats all I can say. thanks for pinning.
Hi Sally,
What would be the measurement if I my butterfingers are already chopped?
Thanks!
Go with 1.5 cups of crushed butterfingers here, Karen
Guess what happened to the leftover Halloween candy??? YUM!!! Made completely by hand, came out perfect.
I love theses cookies! Plan on trying them tonight! 🙂
Just made these!! And they are SO good! Followed the recipe to a “T” and had no problems! The taste and texture are great! The only problem was stopping the kids from swiping them! Thanks for sharing the recipe!!
I made these for the first time a week ago at my husband’s request — he found them on Pinterest — and we have both devoured them…we may or may not have our third batch in the oven right now. It’s such a simple, delicious recipe! Thank you SO much for sharing. 🙂
Deliousisness. I made 1 batch and turned around and made another for work. Very easy very moist if you follow directions perfectly they will turn out great!!! I found it very easy to use a potato masher for the butterfingers. Worked great! Thanks for sharing.
Sally,
I have been looking for this recipe for years. There was a bakery here in town they sold these same cookies. A baker’s dozen was around $25. Whoa!!!! She recently went out of business…hmmm…I wonder why!!
First I read the Measuring 101 piece, I learned a lot from it. I have been doing quite a few things wrong i.e. measuring my flour incorrectly by using a measuring cup that I dipped into the flour and them tapping it on the counter trying to get the proper amount or at least I thought that I was.
Anyway….I made these last night. Using the Measuring 101 as a guide, I followed your recipe, I must tell you that THESE COOKIES ARE GREAT!!! I mean they actually taste exactly like the ones that were made at the bakery. I couldn’t believe it. I even sent pictures to my family and friends at 11 AM telling them just how good they are!!! The bakery also had the Peanut Butter Snickers cookies. I am going to try that recipe later this week. I want to continue to fit into my jeans, so I’m going to have to find more people to share all of these treats with besides my husband.
Sally, (I feel like we are old friends already) please continue posting recipes and I will continue trying them. You are very good at what you are doing!!
TeNiesce, thank you SO much again!! I am so so so glad that you enjoyed these cookies. They are, by far, my favorite cookie ever. Probably because butterfingers are my favorite candy bars EVER! I’m glad you found the Measuring 101 guide helpful, I wrote it a few months ago in hopes that it would help others. I was clueless when I began my baking adventures and reading tutorials like that really helped me learn quickly. I’m glad it’s doing the same for you! I have to bring a lot of my leftovers to work, I don’t need dozens of cookies lying around the house! Thank you so much for your compliment, I truly enjoyed reading each wonderful thing you said. 🙂
I made these today for our family reunion and they were a hit. They were AMAZING!!! And i love how they even LOOK perfect…perfect size & shape, perfect texture, perfect taste! I agree that it’s the easiest homemade cookie you’ll ever make. YUM!
Thanks!! 🙂
These cookies were so easy to make!!! Is the batter supposed to be super crumbly? It came together when I hand worked it, and they tasted absolutely amazing!!! HUGE hit at the tailgate I went to! Once one person had one they were completely devoured in ten minutes!!! Thanks for the awesome recipe!!!!
Hi Julie! My batter wasn’t super moist. It was relatively thick. Not too crumbly, but definitely not thin at all. I’m so glad that they were a hit! I really need to make them again because they are SO SO good!
Trying to decide which of your yummy recipes to make is always a challenge! But this time, I settled on these guys to make for a birthday party. Yum! You’re right, they are so easy and quick to make! When I sampled one right out of the oven, it was perfectly buttery and moist with the hint of peanut butter from the Butterfinger inside. Thanks for sharing!