You Need to Try These Pretzel and Peanut Butter Cup Cookies ASAP
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The concept of “less is more” does not apply to cookies. The more delicious things you can pile into the dough, the better. Some simple, delicate little wafers might be great for dunking in tea, but nothing compares to a big, fat cookie stuffed with chocolate, nuts, and whatever else seems like a good idea at the time.
And these gorgeous, chewy oatmeal cookies from The Sweet & Simple Kitchen are always going to be a good idea because they’re loaded with a wonderful mess of dark chocolate chunks, milk chocolate peanut butter cups, toffee pieces, and mini pretzels for crunch and texture.
The mix-ins make a cookie great, but you have to start with a good cookie base. For this recipe, mix softened butter with dark brown sugar on high until the combination is pale and fluffy. Once the butter and sugar are creamed together, add a room-temperature egg and beat that until it’s fluffy, then mix in real vanilla extract, shredded coconut, and espresso powder.
Add the dry ingredients in two stages. This recipe calls for flour, rolled oats, both baking soda and baking powder, a bit of cinnamon, and some salt. Mix those into the dough on low until they’re just combined, and then add the fun stuff. Mix dark chocolate chunks, a cup of mini pretzels, toffee pieces, and mini peanut butter cups into the dough. The pretzels will get crushed a bit, but that’s OK. The goal of these cookies is deliciousness, not beauty. If you want to make them Instagram-pretty, you could put a whole pretzel on top of each ball of cookie dough before baking them.
Bake the cookies until the edges are set and lightly browned, then sprinkle all the hot cookies with flaky sea salt as soon as you take them out of the oven. Set them aside to cool for at least five minutes. I know it will be hard to wait, but they’ll come of the oven like hot lava, and you’ll enjoy them more when they’ve cooled to the perfect temperature of oven-warm and melty.
Get the recipe: Peanut Butter Cup & Pretzel Oatmeal Cookies from The Sweet and Simple Kitchen
