Sweets on Friday.
Sweet Friday.
Oh Sweetness! It’s Friday.
Sweet Tooth Friday.
Sweet, Heavenly Friday.
All sweets. All the time.
Life is Sweeter on Friday.
Those are just a few names I’ve been throwing around for a new series I’m starting. All recipes. All sweets. All the time. Cookies. Brownies. Cakes. Pies. Bars. Muffins. You get the picture.
I have so many, many recipes that I want to share, one day a weeks just isn’t cutting it anymore. And from the feedback I’ve received, you all want more food. Really, I can’t blame you. Because it’s delicious, delicious food.
And so. Today and every Friday until the end of time {or until I finally run out of recipes} I’m sharing one sweet-inspired recipe. They won’t all have chocolate, although most probably will, but they will all be delicisous.
Before I share this week’s sweet and salty recipe, what should we call this weekly series? Because I need to make a button, I love buttons. And who knows, it just may include a linky in the next couple of weeks, because I know many, many of you have wonderful recipes to share too. So, what should we call it?
Now, onto the good stuff.
For a short while I had a subscription to Everyday with Rachael Ray. Each month I’d page through, not reading the actual articles, and tear out all of the recipes that I wanted to try. Often I’d come away with 5-7 recipes that sounded not only mouth wateringly good, but were easy to make with ingredients that I already had or could easy to find. That’s the number one important thing in a recipe, isn’t it? That and flavor I suppose.
This is one of those recipes. I didn’t even stash it away in my “to try” cookbook, where recipes often go to die. I made these babies right away. Because if there’s one thing that I love {besides the obvious cheese and chocolate} it’s peanut butter and pretzels. Throw them in a cookie and it’s heaven on a napkin. Sweet, salty, crunchy yet chewy heaven.
Just mix, mix, mix for like 5 minutes. These babies have to be light and fluffy.
Roll smallish balls of dough in broken pretzel pieces, squishing the pieces in place.
Bake and enjoy. Probably with a big glass of milk or hot chocolate. And another cookie. Or three. Seriously, you won’t be able to stop.
Peanut Butter Pretzel Cookies
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1-1/2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature {let it sit on the counter overnight}
- 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter {smooth or chunky}
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup unsalted roasted peanuts, chopped {optional} - mini chocolate chips would also work
- 6 cups miniature pretzels, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven.
- Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper {optional}.
- In a small bowl whisk together the flour and baking soda.
- In a large bowl beat the butter, sugar and peanut butter on medium speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes {yes you do need to beat it for 5 minutes, it makes all the difference in the world}.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- With the mixer on low speed gradually at the flour mixture, until just combined.
- Stir in the peanuts {or mini chocolate chips}.
- Chop or break up the pretzels by hand and place them in a bowl. {I break them as I need them, I don't think I've ever actually used 6 full cups.}
- Drop 1-1/2 inch balls of dough into the pretzels and press in the pretzel bits.
- Place cookies on pans.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden but still soft to the touch.
- Let cool slightly before transferring to cooling racks.
From Everyday with Rachael Ray
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Perfect! I was thinking of doing some baking with Evie today and these look great! Now I just have to get organized enough to get to the store…that may actually take a day or two.
What a delicious combination! I would never have thought of combining peanut butter and pretzels, but the idea of it has my mouth watering. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
By the way, I’m co-hosting a new foodie blog hop called Feed Me Tweet Me Follow Me Home and I’d love it if you would pop on over and join in
Anything mixing salty and sweet is a winner in my book–yum!
Oh dear, now you’ve made me want to propose marriage to you.
Bookmarked.
And PS my thights hate you!
And the best comment of the week award goes to…YOU!
evil blogger! read this at 1140 pm and instantly wanted to go make them!
luckily i was out of pretzels…now tomorrow is another day
THANKS
Did you make them? And eat the entire batch in like one day? Or is that just me?
That sounds like a really good cookie. My favorite has always been a ginger cookie, but after seeing yours, that might have to change. I have a new linky on my blog called “Sweets for a Saturday” and I’d like to invite you to stop by and link this up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/01/sweets-for-saturday-1_21.html
Love a good ginger cookie, especially around the holidays. Off to link up with your blog.
Thank you so much for coming by and linking this up to Sweets for a Saturday. I truly appreciate your support. Hope that you’ll be able to join in again next week. By then, I’ll have a cute button that you can grab and add to your post.
I made these tonight. So yummy! I used 1/2 cup cinnamon peanut butter and 1/2 cup regular peanut butter. I can’t stop eating them!
Ohhhhh, cinnamon peanut butter? Where do you get such a wonderful thing?
Oh sweet and salty all in one cookie. I’m in love!
May have to add some chocolate in there, but man those look good!
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