Double Chocolate Pretzel Cookies
The perfect combination of pretzels and chocolate comes together into cookie form! This recipe can be made for any occasion, and can be ready in under 30 minutes, now that's what I call as sweet treat!
Servings: 48 cookies
Ingredients
- 2½ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Corn Starch
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter (room temp)
- 1 cup Light Brown Sugar (packed)
- ½ cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 Eggs (room temp)
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ½ cup Dutch-Processed Cocoa (if wanting to use natural cocoa instead ex. Hershey's Cocoa, then swap the cocoa powder 1:1, omit the baking powder, and use a total of ¾ teaspoon of baking soda)
- 12 ounces chocolate I used 70% chocolate bars chopped into pieces, but you can use any type of chocolate as well as chips
- 2 cups Crumbled Pretzels add more or less to your liking
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 °F
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until combined. Set aside.
- In a separate large bowl, using either a handheld or stand mixer, combine the butter and sugars, creaming them together on medium speed until light and fluffy (this will take about 3 minutes).
- One at a time, add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture, beating each time until fully incorporated.
- Beat in the vanilla.
- Using a fine mesh sieve or a sift, sift the cocoa powder into the large bowl with the wet ingredients. Mix until all cocoa powder is incorporated.
- Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Mix until the flour is almost fully combined except for a few streaks of flour. At this point, add in your chocolate (either chopped up bars or chips) and the broken pretzel bits.
- Scoop out tablespoon-sized cookie dough balls (for cookies as big as the ones in my photos, use three tablespoon portions for one dough ball).
- Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper. for small cookies, about 12 can fit on a pan at a time with adequate spacing. For larger cookies, about 6 can fit with adequate spacing to leave room for spreading. Bake small cookies for 10-12 minutes, bake large cookies upwards of 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes before indulging!