Copycat Panera™ Kitchen Sink Cookies

Panera™ goes all out with its Kitchen Sink Cookies, so we took this challenge pretty seriously. Just look at that ingredient list! It's packed with chocolate chips, toffee bits, pretzels and topped with your fanciest flaky sea salt to finish it off. And trust us, it's totally worth it.MORE+LESS-

2 1/4

cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour

3/4

cup semisweet chocolate chips or chunks

3/4

cup milk chocolate chips or chunks

1/2

teaspoon flaky sea salt

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• 1

  Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat softened butter, sugars, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed or with spoon until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (dough will be stiff). Stir in semisweet and milk chocolate chips, pretzels and toffee bits.

• 2

  On ungreased large cookie sheets, drop by rounded 1/2 cupfuls of dough 4 inches apart. Flatten slightly. Sprinkle a few salt flakes on top of each cookie.

• 3

  Bake 13 to 16 minutes or until light brown around edges (centers will be soft). Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely.

Expert Tips

• Caramel bits can be substituted for toffee bits in this recipe.
• While any pretzel will work in this recipe, pretzels with a waffle pattern, coarsely chopped, give the cookie a fun look.
• Sprinkling a little flaky sea salt on top of the cookies brings out the chocolate flavor and tones down the sweetness.
• If you don’t have flaky sea salt, coarse sea salt will work.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie

Calories

770

Calories from Fat

350

% Daily Value

Total Fat

39g

59%

Saturated Fat

23g

115%

Trans Fat

1g

Cholesterol

90mg

29%

Sodium

710mg

30%

Potassium

210mg

6%

Total Carbohydrate

98g

33%

Dietary Fiber

2g

11%

Sugars

56g

Protein

7g

Vitamin A

15%

15%

Vitamin C

0%

0%

Calcium

8%

8%

Iron

15%

15%

Exchanges:

2 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 4 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 7 1/2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choice

6 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.