Peanut Butter Pretzel Cookies

Submitted by Chef Buggsy Mate

"A tasty peanut butter cookie topped with chopped bits of pretzel. Salty and sweet in one bite!"

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Ready In:: 55mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 30 cookies
Serves:: 10

ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ cups flour
¹⁄₂ teaspoon baking soda
³⁄₄ cup butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
2 eggs, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
¹⁄₂ cup roasted peanuts, chopped
6 cups miniature pretzels, chopped

directions

Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment. Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda.
Using an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugar and peanut butter on medium speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes.
Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition and the vanilla.
With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture, beating until just combined.
Stir in peanuts.
Place the pretzels in a bowl. Scoop dough by rounded Tbs.full and drop a few balls of dough in the bowl and toss to coat.
Place the cookies on the prepared pans.
Bake, rotating the pans after 10 minutes, until golden but still soft to the touch, about 15 minutes.
Let cool slightly before transferring to racks to cool.

Questions & Replies

Love all these 5 star reviews. There's always that 1 star person who obviously did something wrong

robin.ann1114

Reviews

I added one cup of semi sweet chocolate chips to the dough and omitted the chopped peanuts (the person I made these for doesn't like peanuts but likes peanut butter - go figure!). I chopped thin pretzel sticks for the recipe. Pretzel pieces flew everywhere. My dog was happy and thirsty by the time I was done chopping the pretzels. I used my small scoop and made at least 5 dozen cookies. The first batch looked like cookie balls because they didn't flatten out during baking. After the first batch, I flattened each cookie dough ball before I baked them. I heard that the cookies were a huge hit on the job site. I personally prefer crisp cookies and thought that if the cookies were soft, they'd soften the pretzel pieces. I baked the cookies for about 18 minutes. I will definitely make these again. Maybe next time I'll drizzle some chocolate on them after they've cooled down instead of putting chocolate chips in the dough. Thank you for posting this recipe!

Chicagopm
Using brown butter. Did my pretzels in a gallon baggie with my rolling pin.

Janet G.
The worst cookie I ever made. Tasteless and ugly!!

Sally Skeeters
Awesome cookies!!! I am a total pretzel freak, so when I seen these cookies I knew I just had to give them a go. Love the sweet/salty combo. A definite repeat.

CoffeeB
Aussie swap #61 - Fantastical!! What a delicious peanut butter taste - love the salty pretzel topping - unusual and delicious!

Mom2Rose

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Tweaks

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...such a delightful treat. I made these with Splenda brown sugar substitute and used chunky peanut butter instead of the peanut butter and chopped peanuts. The pretzels were a wonderful addition. I took some over to my in-laws and my FIL (who is a cookie connoisseur) said these cookies definitely deserved 5 stars...and that's a great review in my book. :) Made for Sept. 2011 Aus/NZ Swap.

Crafty Lady 13

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