How To Make Pretzel Cookies With M&M’s
If you love chocolate chip cookies, but are looking to bring a bit of a crunchy variation to them, you’ve got to try these pretzel cookies.
They have the perfect sweet and salty flavor in a soft and chewy cookie, and are incredibly easy to make.
They have the delicious creaminess of peanut butter and the delicious crunch from the
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What I Love About this Recipe
There’s nothing better than a batch of freshly baked homemade cookies, and when I have a few extra minutes at hand, I love putting these pretzel cookies together.
This one may not be a no bake pretzel cookies recipe, but they quite literally need just a few minutes of kitchen time to put together.
Pretzel Cookies Cooking Time
- Prep: 20 Minutes
- Bake: 12 Minutes
- Serves: 24 Cookies
Ingredients For the Pretzel Cookies Recipe
To make the M&M pretzel cookies, here’s what you’ll need.
- 1/2 cup salted butter (1 stick) softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup M&M Candies
- 48 pretzels
How to Make the Pretzel Cookies
Ready with all your ingredients? Here’s what you’ll need to do to make the cookies from scratch.
Step 1: Preheat Oven
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
Step 2: Prepare the Cookie Dough
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, egg, and vanilla together until fluffy.
Step 3: Add M&Ms
Slowly add the dry ingredients to wet mixture, beating until well blended. Fold in the M&M’s candies.
Step 4: Bake Cookies
Drop a tablespoon of dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake 12 minutes until lightly browned.
Step 5: Press Pretzels & Let Cool Completely
Immediately after removing from the oven, carefully press two pretzels into the top of each cookie. Place the cookies onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Tips to Make the Pretzel Cookies with M&Ms
Making these crunchy cookies is super easy, but keeping these tips and tricks handy can be even better.
- To cut down the cooking time for this recipe, you can start off with pre made cookie dough of your choice.
- If you don’t have peanut butter, you can use any other nut butter of your choice.
- If you don’t want to use whole pretzels, you can just use roughly crushed pretzels too. Pretzel twists can also be a great option to consider.
- If you can get your hands on some itty bitty mini pretzels, you can choose to press them into the cookie dough too.
- The key to getting the perfect chewy texture for the cookies is to remember to use fresh and high quality baking soda and baking powder for the recipe.
- Also make sure to get the proportion of the ingredients right for this recipe. Using too much flour, for instance, can cause the cookies to become flat and dry.
- Remember to press the pretzel pieces into the cookies before the cookies cool down.
What Else Can I Add to the Pretzel Cookies?
In addition to everything that I’ve used, you can also throw in some mix-ins of your choice to bring some flavor variations to the cookies.
Sea salt can be a great addition to the cookies. You can also choose to use salty pretzels if you want to.
Remember to use flakey sea salt for best results. The flake sea salt adds a nice burst of salty flavor to the chewy cookies.
If you have a sweet tooth, you can choose to add some white chocolate chips or butterscotch chips, or salted caramel chips into the cookie dough balls.
Butterscotch chips in particular, make for a delicious combination when teamed up with the peanut butter and the sweet and salty cookie dough.
You can also choose to add some sweet toffee bits into the cookie dough to make toffee pretzel cookies.
Chocolate chips or chocolate chunks are an absolute classic you can never go wrong with.
To make pretzel chocolate cookies, you can also consider adding some melted chocolate into the mix.
How To Make Pretzel Cookies With M&M's
Delicious Pretzel Cookies with M&M'S
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup salted butter (1 stick) softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup M&M Candies
- 48 pretzels
Instructions
Step 1: Preheat Oven
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
Step 2: Prepare the Cookie Dough
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, egg, and vanilla together until fluffy.
Step 3: Add M&Ms
Slowly add the dry ingredients to wet mixture, beating until well blended. Fold in the M&M's candies.
Step 4: Bake Cookies
Drop a tablespoon of dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake 12 minutes until lightly browned.
Step 5: Press Pretzels & Let Cool Completely
Immediately after removing from the oven, carefully press two pretzels into the top of each cookie. Place the cookies onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
24Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 346Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 778mgCarbohydrates: 65gFiber: 3gSugar: 15gProtein: 8g
How Do I Store Pretzel Cookies For Later?
Ready to bake pretzel cookies? Got a big batch that you want to store for later?
You can just wrap up the individual cookies in cookie sheet or parchment paper and store them in an airtight container at room temperature. They should stay fresh in there for a few days.
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