Running longer distances allows for a lot of time with your thoughts. Thoughts about life, thoughts about family, thoughts about food, and most importantly thoughts about cookies. While on a 10 mile run yesterday, I thought about all of these things. My running partner was with me for good conversation, but anytime there was silence my mind was thinking about how excited I was to get to the grocery store destination so I could buy myself a cookie.
10 miles done and the grocery store was waiting for me to purchase sugar laden treats and guzzle water with blueberries floating inside. If you don’t end your run at the grocery store, you are missing out. While walking the aisles patiently waiting to stumble upon the cranberry orange cookie I had discovered just the day before, I looked at my friend as he muttered the most beautiful words I had heard all day, “let’s make compost cookies.”
Compost cookies were originally founded by a restaurant called Momofuku, but I wanted to make my own version..vegan friendly of course. I used my chocolate chip cookie base, and added the random ingredients to it. It doesn’t feel right to call these compost cookies, and anytime I mentioned the fact that I was tired on this 10mile run my friend would say “basura” which means trash in Spanish It was the theme of the run, so I present to you..basura cookies.
Basura Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup coconut oil
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup raw sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup crushed potato chips
- 1 cup crushed pretzels
- 2.5 teaspoons fresh ground UN-brewed coffee beans
- a few splashes of almond milk depending on texture
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, cream together the melted coconut oil, brown sugar and raw sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, and applesauce until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips, potato chips, pretzels, and coffee grounds by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
- Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted.
I will run marathons for these cookies. I am savoring one of these as I type this post, they pair perfectly with a cup of coffee. Lets be real though, I haven’t found a cookie that DOESN’T pair well with coffee!
Q: What do you think about on long runs/bike rides/swims/hikes?
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82 thoughts on “Running Thoughts”
Alex @ therunwithin
that is what I love about running long, all I do is think. I think a lot and barely remember half of it
lifeasliv
I’m dying–these cookie look so darn good. Just pinned it 🙂
coffeencollege
One of the things I love most about running is that it gives you time to be alone with your thoughts and get away from all the daily craziness of life! I’m sure that 10 miles felt great for your body and your head too 😉
Britta
First off, why is Manfriend so great? You guys seriously make me so happy 😀 Way to go with the 10 miler!!!! And to think, a few months ago we were struggling to tie up our laces!! Those cookies look freaking delicious, but I’m not gonna lie, they sounds SO weird too! Chips in cookies? That’s going to be a first, but I definitely want to try them and I am positive I will be pleasantly surprised!!
Brittany
EVERY TIME I run further than like 6 miles I always think about how like 6months ago running 5 was SUCH a struggle. I swear I talk about it all the time!! I love how far we’ve come! You’re not alone with thinking these cookies sound weird, my best friend was not impressed when I texted her. My mom was weirder out too, but was a believer after she ate one! The chips were actually the most subtle part of the cookie!! Just think about that salty sweet combo…yUM!
Emily
um what, I need to find a reason to make these.. being on a budget, I generally can’t justify buying ingredients for cookies unless it’s for a reason soooo FIND ME A REASON….. Oh and on “long” runs (does 5 miles count?) I tend to make lists in my head, like to-do lists, wish lists, to-cook lists, etc. I also do little pep talks “youre not dying youre just running” “it can’t be that bad since you’re not puking” “remember all those christmas cookies yeah you’re still burning them off”
Brittany
YES 5 miles counts!! I do those pep talks ALL the time!! Just yesterday I had to chant a couple times, “just keep running.” I was a tired runner yesterday!!
So check this out..I had all the ingredients for these cookies on deck except for the chips and the pretzels. The rest are just staples in my house. I bought one small bag of chips and pretzels for 89cents each!! Unless all these baking items aren’t staples in your house you should be able to make these on a budget!! You can substitute for the coconut oil and use eggs instead of apple sauce. If you don’t have the other shizz then I guess my reason for you to make these would be..they are SO EFFING GOOD. They will make you clap sparkles. HAHA! Ok so maybe just save the recipe for a special occasion ;).
The Healthy Flavor
These look delicious Brittany! Salivating at the moment. I want to shove my face in that bowl of batter, lol!
Andrea @Pencils and Pancakes
I am sticking to my no cookies til march because of my super binge on Christmas. They still make me shudder.
Mama's Gotta Bake
Oh how yummy!
Jade
Mmmm those cookies look delicious! I think about all kinds of stuff when I run. Recently, where we should move to and going through various scenarios about what each place would be like!
Angela @ Health's Angel
I’ve never tried compost cookies but sweet & salty anything is my absolute favorite…sooo I’m sure I’d be all over these.
Khushboo Thadani
Okay these are the ULTIMATE sweet ‘n’ savoury combo- drooling at the sound (and sight) of them! Way to go on the 10-miler!! My run yesterday was nowhere near as long but I definitely treated myself to an oatmeal raisin cookie at Starbucks afterwards- why else run right ;)!
TorontoRunner
first of all, 10 miles – greaaaaaaaaat going lady!! amazing. Inspiring me today.
secondly – oh my gosh, if I’m running outside, I *ALWAYS* end my run at the grocery store. Always, always, always!! I keep cash and my credit card in my running jacket soley for that purpose. It is everything its cracked up to be!
spectacuLAUR
Oh my god why is everyone posting drool-worthy cookie recipes right now?! I don’t eat potato chips but I really want to make these! When I used to run long distances I always thought about food and then I would get anxious to end my run lol. Mostly it was either 1.) Chocolate or 2.) Cookie Dough. I don’t know what it is about running and cookies, but I think there’s a connection.
Brittany @ GOtheXtraMile
Running to the grocery store after a long run would just be DANGEROUS for me. I would want everything. And I would buy everything. Haha not a good idea!!! Um, cookies that are named “trash” never looked sooo good 😉
Colin DeWaay
I used to really struggle for long distance runs but grew to like them more when I slowed myself down and decided it didn’t matter how fast I did it. For sure some of the things you mentioned. For one you have so much me time to just think. When you are worried so much about time you don’t allow your mind to work!
Brittany
I was/am the exact same way. I find that when I slowwwww down the run is much more enjoyable and I am able to run further..go figure!
Colin DeWaay
Yep! Only took me 33 years to figure that out! LOL
HollieisFueledByLOLZ
Those cookies look to die for. I could see myself attempting to make them for that purpose. I agree though, running really floods mind with too many thoughts. Some good…some bad…
Amanda @ .running with spoons.
I love it when I get into that zone and my mind just starts to wander. Life, love, and what my next meal will be are the things that usually make up the majority of my thoughts at those times, and out of the three, the last one probably takes up the bulk of it 😉 But come on! How could it not when delicious food is involved!? I recently had some really epic cookie-fuelled workouts, so I’m thinking that there’s something magical about cookies…
Choc Chip Uru
Any runner deserves a boatload of these cookies 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Meghan@CleanEatsFastFeets
I think anything pairs well with coffee. Slice of cake, pie, zucchini bread….all good with coffee. I love that cookies fuel your run, and I love days when you go to the grocery and just know thar you’re buying a treat today.
Lauren
Seriously? These cookies. YUM!
Alex @ Cookie Dough Katzen
Haha I totally think about baking delicious things while out on a run. Helps the time go by I guess! Love the basura cookies. These look incredible!
Luv What You Do
Your cookies look fantastic! I have a lot going through my head during long runs and bike rides. Usually some planning for the future and I definitely think about recipes too! I make lists…because I am a list girl!
Rachel Elizabeth
omg those cookies! I’m totally drooling right now lol I never thought to add pretzels.. potato chips I might pass (they make my mouth itchy because apparently I’m a weirdo lol) during my very long runs of 4 miles I used to think about what I’d eat for breakfast haha
An Unrefined Vegan
GAH!!! I’ve gotta make these!
Random memory: garbage cans in southern California that read “Basura Solamente!”
Life After Swimming
OH MY GOSH. Pretzels?! In a cookie!? You, my dear, are a cookie-making genius.
P
These cookies are sooooo drool-worthy! Need to make these on my long run days so I’ll have something tasty to run home to 😉
Melissa @ Mouthwatering Morsel
those are SO good. I need to find my motivation to workout more… not food though. that wouldn’t go too well for me. haha
Megan
Gosh, I can not remember the last time I had a potato chip, so yummmo! These cookies look amazing. I love just throwing topping into stuff! I bought a bunch of dates on amazon today and am going to try my hand and “garbage” date bars. I expect an epic combo, just like these coookies!!!
I love you and I love free swag BUT if your bottom half doesn’t fit in those pants my bootay would not either : )
Tessa at Amazing Asset
What an interesting looking recipe Brittany, saved to create at a later time 🙂
Sam @ Better With Sprinkles
I’m not a long distance runner right now, but I would seriously consider a ten mile run for one of those cookies :-p
Lou
Ha, these cookies are awesome! Viper would go NUTS for these 🙂 What an excellent idea…. I too think of food while I’m running, at the moment I’m obsessed with watermelon – I could seriously eat a whole one EVERY day. That’s just crazy though, no?
Brittany
OMG over the summer here when I would go running I was the SAME way. Watermelon every day. I tried to eat a whole one, but I got sick haha. SO good though.
cleaneatingveggiegirl
I love the addition of pretzels and potato chips to chocolate chip cookies. The sweet and salty combination is one of my favs. So stinkin’ creative! 😉
jessielovestorun
I think about anything & everything on runs. Some thoughts may be ridiculously strange.. like why does a cow moo? Ha Ha. I mean you have to entertain yourself somehow right? 🙂
kaityscooking
these cookies look awesome!! I think about so much on my runs i catch myself laughing alot, probably look cool haha and sometimes if i want to go home i bribe myself to run another mile then u can eat pancakes when u get home.. these cookies were def worth the 10 miles!
Alexandra
Ummm so I HAVE to make these cookies asap!! Love the name, love the flavor combo, and love the fact there’s CHIPS IN IT!!!! 😀
Alex @ Brain, Body, Because
Those cookies look amazing! And the name is super fun 😉
Rach @ This Italian Family
Oh girl, these look so yummy! I can see why you’d think about them on repeat while running, haha! 🙂
A Tablespoon of Liz
These look so good!!! I love cookies that have so many different things in them. I love that you used pretzels!!
Alisha's Appetite
10 miles?! Dammnnn girl, you go! Did you watch Biggest Loser last night (I’m guessing because you said you were going to?) I’m call you the “damnnn gurrrllll” that Pam wants to be/is. hahah!
Brittany
Bahaha best comment ever.
GiGi Eats Celebrities
When I am running or working out, all I think about is FOOD and my BED. I dream of spaghetti squash tendrils being scooped into my mouth and the crunch of salmon skin as I nosh on fat hand rolls, with no rice. I then think of my delicious fluffy and soft bed that has the consistency of wonder bread and how my head sinks ever so perfectly into my deflated marshmallow like pillow. Mmmm, bed and food. How on earth do I even have the motivation to get up off my ass to work out? SERIOUSLY!! Oh I know how… Because in order for me to have a sex-ayyyy bod, I need to work it, work it… So then I can bring food into the bed room, when I have a sexy MAN FRIEND over!! What a terrific combo!
di @ life of di.
Pretzels and coffee sound like wonderful additions to cookies 🙂 These look soo good. I love sweet and salty dessert combinations.
Brittany @ DulceVie
Ahhh! Those cookies look delish!!! As for long runs and such, I enjoy running long distance rather than short sprints. I am all for endurance 🙂
moderngirlnutrition
Yum! What a good mix of sweet and salty- my fave!
noshingonasphalt
I love it, “I will run marathons for these cookies”. Must be pretty darn good, then!!
cottercrunch
thats me when i run too. clear my thoughts and then think of grocery lists, lol! maybe not the best idea but it keeps me entertained, haha.
cookies SOUND AMAZING!!!
Pumpedpumpkin
stahp. these cookies look so amazing. I love throwing a whole bunch of stuff into cookies. Oh it’s heaven. I will workout for any kind of sweet treat.
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jessiebearwhat
pretzels chocolate and coffee….. I’m so in.
consciouscravings
Those cookies look great. I need them in my stomach immediately. Lets make that happen. I’m heading to the store now.
dynamicsofhappy
omg! description of what the cookies are like plz?
i have heard amazing things about momofuku’s cookies but am lactose intolerant, so i should give your recipe a try1!!
Brittany
THE COOKIES ARE UNREAL! LIKE…orgasmic in your mouth. No better description needed. Make them asap.
dynamicsofhappy
haha will do. i am so jealous of people’s ability to just whip up a batch of cookies that turn out perfectly. i ALWAYS succeed at failed bakings every time :p
Caroline Taylor
Compost cookies is a great name! Love the sound of them.
Brittany
YES! You must make them!
katalysthealth
GENIUS!! Im all about the sweet and salty thing, so I def need to try throwing in some pretzels to chocolate chip cookies!
myhighonlife
Oh my lanta. This is on the top of my must make/eat list once these darn wisdom teeth permit me to EAT food again. Soup and ice cream is getting old fast. And here I sit at work drooling over these beautiful cookies. Yummy.
On long runs when I am alone I think about anything and everything to make me not think of the pain. From counting my steps (I may be a bit OCD) to what I will eat for dinner that night. 🙂
Shira
This post is just amazing Brittany! I couldn’t agree more, lots of time to think is just about the BEST part of running! These cookies look crazy good. Crazy good!
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einahpets89
Hahaha im so glad im not the only person who thinks about food while running…
Amy Johnson
I made these cookies last night, they are fabulous! Chewy, crispy and crunchie all at the same time. And coffee grinds- who knew they’d be good to eat? Thanks for sharing!
mlw21
There’s a grocery store .6 miles from my house… And you’ve inspired me. Many thanks! :o)
fitfoodnista
Reblogged this on The Fit Foodnista and commented:
I need to make these stat!
Sonya Sombra
I’m late to the party, but these look ahh-mazing! They’re on my list for sure!
bonnev659
those look amazing and when i run i try not to think of food unless i know it be there when i get home….
kvjinc
Interesting choice with potato chips.
7slightedges
At the finish-line of Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, MN there is a Burger King. It has been an 8 year tradition to cross the line and go directly there to order a burger.
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midlifemousetrap
The cookies look awesome! I run to eat, so can totally relate to thinking about yummy foods while on a long run…but ending at a grocery store…now that is just pure GENIUS!
Lucas J. Draeger
I know what you mean about running being beneficial for thinking power. I used to run long distances, before my knees, ankles, and back gave out, and I miss the brain catharsis.
BTW – those cookies with the pretzels in them…my mouth is watering!
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I was curious about the title for these cookies, but after reading the ingredient list it’s easy to understand. I will make these after my drive to the store. My running days ended years ago, but I still enjoy a good walk.
Anne Richardson
What I like about long bike rides is… it feels like total freedom. Like I don’t have anywhere to be except anywhere I want to be. And I can go anywhere. All I need is air in my tubes. It’s really delightful!
Erin Southerland
During training, I usually think about breakfast. We usually end our long runs near a pub that makes wonderful boxty. After a long run, it’s so delicious with a cup of coffee and a huge glass of water.
Roselyn
Hi Brittany! I am trail runner and was looking for natural food to bring on my runs when I stumbled on your Coffee Energy Bites. I was looking for something with caffeine and found your recipe. As I was reading, my eye caught the “basura cookies” and I wondered if you are Filipino (like me!) or someone with Filipino roots because we also call trash “basura.” The Philippines was colonized by Spain for 333 years so our language is sprinkled with Spanish words. Anyway enough of the history class and on to the cookies. I will be making the one with coffee but this “Basura Cookies” seem delish so I will be making them as well. Thanks for this and I hope you are still running as this was written way back 2013.
Brittany
Hi Roselyn! I am not Filipino, but took a handful of Spanish classes throughout school. I didn’t realize the languages were so connected, how cool! I hope you love the cookies and the bites. Thanks for the comment.