These graham cracker cookies are positively loaded with crushed graham crackers giving them an amazing taste with a soft and chewy texture!
My mama is always asking me how I come up with ideas for new recipes. And I’m all, I dunno, I guess I’m just magic?
Unfortunately, that’s a lie. I don’t have one magical bone in my body, which I think is crap. Why does Harry Potter get to have all the fun? Not fair, if you ask me.
Anyway, the other day I was in the mood to bake. I’ve also been running seriously low on blog recipes with the move and holidays both happening right around the same time. I basically took 4 weeks off of blog cooking and that’s kind of insane.
So, there I was standing in the pantry, feeling like I needed a cookie. Then I saw the oats and thought, hey, I’ll make some oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Then I saw the graham crackers and I thought, nope. Forget the oats. I’m grinding up some graham crackers and turning them into cookies. A cracker cookie! A delicious, chocolate filled graham cracker cookie that makes me weep with joy.
So, that’s how these happened. Now you know.
The texture is a bit different from your average cookie and the flavor really does shout graham crackers if you ask me. The melty chocolate chips are optional, except not, because chocolate.
Just wait until you see what I do to this cookie base next time. I have grand plans. Oh, do I have grand plans. UPDATED: I turned these into s’mores cookies!
You’ll love my brown sugar cookies and double chocolate chip cookies too!
Graham Cracker Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degres.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until creamy.
- Beat in the vanilla and egg until well combined.
- In a medium bowl, combine the graham cracker crumbs, flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add to the butter mixture until just combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, drop balls of dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Bake for 7 minutes.
- Cookies will look slightly underdone, but should set up nicely as they cool.
Sharon says
do you think I could add rolled oats to this recipe?
Karly says
I’m sure you could, but you’d need to reduce the graham crackers or flour by some amount or the cookies would be too dry.
Leeanne says
I added mini marshmallows but otherwise followed the recipe. Sooo good!
Dawn says
I definitely will be making these again. I needed to use up some Graham crackers that were about to expire & came across this recipe. These are better than the chocolate chip recipe that I use. Absolutely scrumptious. Thanks for sharing?
Karly says
Love to hear that! Thanks, Dawn!
Joanne Tuckman says
Can you refrigerate the dough for a day or two and make the cookies later?
Karly says
Yep! It will also freeze well. I like to scoop out into cookies and then refrigerate or freeze on a sheet pan for an hour before transferring to a bag. It’s hard to scoop cold cookie dough. 🙂
Charlcie says
I did not have chocolate chips so I used heath chocolate bits pieces, It was so good!!
Karly says
Sounds delicious!
Toby says
I made some changes and love the recipe. I used a combination of butter and oil which I increased to 3/4 cup, added an extra egg and half a cup of regular oatmeal and some raisins. I baked them for 10 minutes. I could have added 3/4 cup oatmeal — next time. I could see that the chocolate would be really good – the raisins did nothing so I’ll omit them next time. I made these to use up some store brand graham wafers that weren’t that good.
James W. says
My oven runs cool so I had to bake closer to 15 minutes. I replaced the chocolate chips with butterscotch chips because I had some butterscotch chips I had to use. Overall, this recipe is great! Thank you!
Karly says
Sounds delicious with butterscotch chips!
DC says
These were absolutely perfect! Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside! These are by far the best cookies I’ve made from scratch.
Karly says
Yay! Love to hear that!
Cali Mom says
Delicious! Very chewy. Glad you included the note about how they will SEEM to be underdone at first — I was a little worried when I first pulled them out but sure enough, it all worked out. Thanks!
Karly says
Yay! Love to hear that! 🙂
eileen wigginton says
Why do most food bloggers tell their boring life stories before showing the recipe? Most annoying.
Karly says
Because it’s a blog…literally a place to share our lives with our readers. If you don’t like the free content that we provide, feel free to purchase a cookbook.
KLD says
She has kindly used the “jump to recipe” link at the top, so people can avoid the background (which is actually often quite helpful in making the recipe) and go right to the recipe if they want.
Kathy says
Great recipe using graham cracker crumbs to replace a portion of the flour and therefore makes the cookies more flavorful! I love the flavor of the cookies and will keep using this recipe for my go-to for homemade choc. chip cookies.
Cookielover says
Mine were so flat
Annie says
We had a box of leftover Graham crackers I purchased in the fall when I had that once of year craving for s’mores. My husband was requesting chocolate chip cookies, and after doing some research I found this recipe. The cookies turned out so good! In fact, my husband likes these cookies better than my regular chocolate chip cookie recipe. I love the texture, and the little something extra the cracker crumbs add. Thanks for a great, easy recipe!
Karly says
Yay! So glad you found something to use those graham crackers. 🙂
Daphne says
Do you think it’d be okay if I increased the Graham crackers and reduced the flour accordingly?
Karly says
I haven’t tried it, but I’d be a bit worried about the cookies not holding together well and losing some of that ‘cookie texture.’
pamela says
Has anyone tried adding mini marshmallows to these?
Karly says
I have! https://www.bunsinmyoven.com/smores-cookies-recipe/
Lynne says
I think she means regular mini marshmallows, not the hard marshmallow bits.
Karly says
Oh, no I haven’t tried that.