I remember the first week when Pretzel M&M's were on the market. It was basically a mad dash for the market to see who could buy them all first. Clearly I won. I stocked up on pounds and pounds of these little morsels of goodness and stashed them away in my pantry for a rainy day. Here's the deal, Pretzel M&M's are my jam. They are the perfect combo of sweet and salty and the bottom line is that you need them in your life.
Lucky for you, my friend Maria from Two Peas and their Pod has you covered! Maria and I have known each other for a few years now. She's the first person I became friends with in the food blogging world and I can vividly remember our first Blogher Food conference together.  In fact without her, I wouldn't have even made it to the conference since she found me a ticket at the last minute! She's a total doll and I'm so excited for her because she has a gorgeous new e-cookbook out! Cookie Cravings. And when I say gorgeous, I really mean it! Heidi from Foodie Crush did all the photography for the book and it is beautiful. You literally turn each page and want to eat each and every cookie. You see, Maria is the cookie queen. That girl knows her cookies! And I'm a sucker for a good cookie! It's one of the many reasons we get along so well 🙂
And without further ado... here is one of my favorites from Maria's new book!
Jumbo Pretzel M&M Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 ¾ cups AP Flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter at room temp
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup Pretzel M&M's
- 1 cup chopped pretzels
- sea salt for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- In a large bowl sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and set aside.
- In a stand mixer, combine the butter and sugars until smooth. About 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs and vanilla and scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix. Stir in the chocolate chips, pretzel M&M's and chopped pretzels.
- Using a ¼ cup scoop, scoop the dough onto the baking sheets. 6 cookies per baking sheet since they are jumbo! Using the palm of your hand, flatten out the cookies a bit and sprinkle with a touch of sea salt.
- Bake the cookies for 12 minutes until the edges just barely turn golden brown. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the cookies cool for a few minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack. Repeat the process with the remaining dough.
Notes
Nutrition Information
My favorite cookie is a toss-up between snickerdoodles and my dad's chocolate chip cookie recipe (have to be made by him, too!)
Gingerbread! Uncommon choice, maybe but you must try this recipe! I started making them with my Mom every Christmas when I was absolutely head-over-heels-IN-LOVE with my American Girl Doll Kirsten! She "has" a recipe collection that includes a recipe Pepparkakor Cookies -- the ginger flavor comes through very softly. I've included the recipe below 🙂
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
3 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon water
Extra flour for rolling out dough
Directions: (3 dzn cookies)
1. Set butter aside to soften to room temp.
2. Sift into a medium mixing bowl the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves into sifter. Set bowl aside.
3. Combine sugar and softened butter into a large mixing bowl. Press them against the side of the large mixing bowl, and then stir.
4. Add the egg, maple syrup, and water to the butter and sugar mixture. Beat the mixture until it is fluffy.
5. Stir the dry ingredients into the mixture 1 cup at a time. Mix well after each cup.
6. Cover the bowl with the plate, and chill for one hour to make the dough easier to roll out and handle.
7. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Have an ungreased cookie sheets ready to use.
8. Sprinkle flour onto a table or counter and spread it around evenly with your hands. Cover the rolling pin with flour to keep the dough from sticking.
9. Divide the dough into two balls. Flatten the first ball and roll it from the center to the edges. Try to make the who piece about 1/8 inch thick.
10. Use cookie Cutters to cut out shapes that are about the same size. Put the cookies 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets.
11. Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes, until they are lightly browned on the bottom. Watch the cookies carefully. They Burn easily.
13. Enjoy! YUM 🙂
Favorite cookies in the world are from Levain bakery in NYC! I am still perfecting my own version, but they are always hot, melt-y and larger than life! Always, always worth a trip to their tiny bakery!
While I love a warm chewy chocolate chip cookie--I have been making Barefoot Contessa's raspberry jam thumbprints lately and am obsessed! i can't get enough of them!
I like thick and chewy, and soft... no crisp!
Crispy Chocolate chip cookies.
Monster cookies are my absolute favorite!
Thanks for a great giveaway!! My favorite cookies are classic chocolate chip cookies with peanut butter chips added in too! Yum!
i like my mom's christmas sugar cookies. they are perfectly chewy with crisp edges, and have a maraschino cherry in the middle to boost the flavor.
My favorite all-time cookie are lemon sugar cookies, which I think are also from Maria's blog. They are amazing! Perfectly chewy on the inside and crisp on the outside with the perfect blend of lemon, sugar and butter.
These cookies sound absolutely lovely! Yum!
Chocolate and pretzel in a cookie? Holy moly yuminess!
Chocolate chip cookies are my all time favorite cookie, but these m&m cookies look pretty amazing! 😀 Thank you for the giveaway!!!
I'll have to say Dishpan cookies, they are sweet.. crunchy... chewy.. just goodness through and through.. plus they travel well, I can mail them to soldiers overseas and they seem to hold up pretty well through the travels. You can add different things to make them special, cherries, M&M's, chocolate, hmmm now I'm hungry for these.. gotta go make a batch!!
My favorite cookies are White Chocolate Chunk Macadamia...sweet, a little gooey, melt in your mouth goodness!!!!!