It’s that time of year. The time when I’m baking furiously to keep up with all the holiday events we attend. One of my favorites is the annual Christmas cookie swap at our church. All of the ladies get together, bringing several dozen cookies and a potluck dish. After dinner, we have a “cookie tasting.” Everyone is given a cookie tin and allowed to collect a certain number of cookies from each participant. It’s a great way to have a variety of cookies on hand with a lot less work. This season I wanted to try something different. When I saw a package of Peanut butter chocolate chip pretzel cookie dough at the grocery store I thought, “I could make these myself!” You can too, using this simple peanut butter chocolate chip pretzel cookies recipe.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies Recipe
You can experiment with these cookies if you like by using different types of chocolate chips. This recipe works well with dark chocolate chips, semi-sweet, or milk chocolate. If you prefer you can add white chocolate chips or, for an extreme peanut butter taste, peanut butter chips. If you need the recipe to be gluten-free, substitute gluten-free baking flour for the regular baking flour and use gluten-free pretzels.
One tip for new bakers is that the type of cookie sheet you use can make a difference. I like to use a shiny air bake cookie sheet. This helps distribute heat evenly and keeps the bottoms of the cookies from burning. These cookie sheets are low cost too. You can find them for around $7.00- $10.00. It’s a great investment piece for your kitchen. Be sure to follow the required refrigeration time too. If not, your cookies will spread. No one wants that.
Printable Recipe
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter (can use smooth or crunchy)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup chocolate chips (your choice: dark, semi-sweet, or milk chocolate
- 3/4 cup crushed pretzels
- In a medium bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together.
- Beat in eggs until mixture is smooth.
- In another medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt,
- Slowly add the flour mixture into the butter mixture.
- Place the dough in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours. .
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- When the dough has finished chilling, roll small amounts of dough into 1 inch balls and place on baking sheets.
- With a fork, flatten each ball, making a crisscross pattern.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cookies begin to brown.
Don’t these cookies look tasty? They’re sure to disappear from your platter when you take them to your cookie swap. After all, no one wants to be the person who comes back home with a full plate of cookies. Do you attend an annual cookie swap? What is your go-to cookie recipe?
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Yep, the cookies look super tasty, I’m salivating over here and would like to give the recipe a go. I’m a sucker for peanut butter anything!
A sure winner without a doubt. Babushka already pinned the recipe and is going to get all the ingredients on this weeks shopping list. Gracias for the recipe.
Well, I never thought to add in pretzels. I have got to try this.
This recipe sounds amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever had cookies with pretzels in them before though. I bet they’ll taste great too.
This must smelled so good upon removing them from the oven. Unfortunately my son is allergic to peanut so we can’t make anything with peanut butter.
These peanut butter cookies look incredibly delicious! The addition of chocolate chips make them irresistible!
Now this sounds like an amazing cookie recipe! I need to try this ASAP!!
These Pretzel cookies looks so delicious! Perfect recipe to do this coming Christmas, I will try this one. Thanks for sharing!
That sweet/salty combination is calling my name! I love that the pretzels add a little different flavor profile than your ordinary chocolate chip cookies.
This recipe has all of my favorites included. I can’t wait to try this. Perfect to leave for Santa this year.
What a unique recipe idea, I’ll have to whip these up for a dessert idea soon with my kiddos and the entire family.
Ooooohhh… these sound delicious. Salty and sweet oh yeah you’re talking my language. I would dunk them in a tall glass of milk. Yummy!
These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies look divine! My hubby would love them. We call him the cookie monster for a reason 🙂
Yeah this is definitely going to happen! That gives me my salty and sweet fix all in one. I cannot wait to make these.
This is the wonderful thing about cookies. You can add all kinds of fun and different things to them. Adding pretzels is a wonderful idea and would give them a unique taste.
Those cookies look delicious! I’ve participated in several cookie exchanges and this would be the perfect cookie to bake and exchange with friends.
What a delicious combination of flavors here! You have managed to pack the best of all treat flavors into one cookie. I can’t wait to make it!
Oo I just love making these. I haven’t made them in a long time, so I should. I like to have lots of cookies around during the holidays.
These cookies are going to go over BIG at my cookie swap on Saturday. I am excited to show up with a batch of them.