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 I know that you guys are total cookie lovers too! That’s why today I am giving away 3 copies of Cookie Cravings!! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post tell me your absolute favorite cookie in the whole wide world. I want details too! What makes that cookie your favorite cookie? Is it a gooey chewy cookie? Or a crisp one? Chocolate Chip? Molasses? There are just so many! So spill it in the comments and I’ll pick 3 winners on Friday at 11:00 pm PST!
Winners will get this fab e-book with tons of delectable recipes like, Triple Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies, Brown Sugar Maple Cookies, Lemon Drop Cookies and so many more!
And without further ado… here is one of my favorites from Maria’s new book!
Jumbo Pretzel M&M Cookies + A Giveaway!
Ingredients
- 3 3/4 cups AP Flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter at room temp
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 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 1/4 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.
My favorite cookies are White Chocolate Chunk Macadamia…sweet, a little gooey, melt in your mouth goodness!!!!!
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!!
Chocolate chip cookies are my all time favorite cookie, but these m&m cookies look pretty amazing! 😀 Thank you for the giveaway!!!
Chocolate and pretzel in a cookie? Holy moly yuminess!
These cookies sound absolutely lovely! Yum!
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.
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.
Thanks for a great giveaway!! My favorite cookies are classic chocolate chip cookies with peanut butter chips added in too! Yum!
Monster cookies are my absolute favorite!
Crispy Chocolate chip cookies.
I like thick and chewy, and soft… no crisp!
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!
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!
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 🙂
My favorite cookie is a toss-up between snickerdoodles and my dad’s chocolate chip cookie recipe (have to be made by him, too!)
I love a classic chocolate chip cookie, or if I’m feeling crazy, a toffee chip cookie.
A warm chocolate chip cookie, crisp on the outside and gooey on the inside!
My favorite sentimental cookies are rasin-filled cookies. My mom only makes them at Christmas and they always remind me of my dad and grandpa – I believe the recipe came from my great grandma. But, for just plain cookie goodness – I’ll take an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie, please.
My favorite is chewy chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven!
Y-U-M. I would love to dunk these in some cold milk…now, that’s definitely my jam!
My favorite all time cookie is just a plain chocolate chip cookie fresh from the oven. I like to take them out right before they are done so it will be soft and gooey!
Snickerdoodles, hands down. I love many…. but I dream of snickerdoodles.
My favorite cookies are the homentashen I make with my grandmother every Purim. They’re my favorite not only because of the tradition aspect, but there is lemon and orange zest and juice in the dough that makes it irresitible raw, let alone cooked! Mixed with jam or chocolate chip fillings, these cookies are to DIE for.
My favorite cookie is the “Neiman Marcus” Cookie. Chocolate chip with espresso basically but so decadent! Urban legend has it a waiter at a Neiman Marcus cafe told a woman the cookie was, “Two-fifty” and she (rightfully so) interpreted that as: $2.50. Upon receiving the bill she realized she was charged $250 and in revenge sent out the recipe to everyone she knew. A delicious cookie and a little gossip – what more could a girl want??
Definitely chocolate chip fresh from the oven!
Awesome cookies and awesome giveaway!!
Iced oatmeal. Absolutely no raisins. Just cinnamon-y, oatmeal-y goodness, dressed with classic white vanilla frosting. Chewy but not gummy. Simple but not boring. One bite leads to another, another leads to the whole bunch. Whoops.
My ultimate most favorite cookie of all time is a white chocolate sugar cookie with a hint of cinnamon. Most amazing soft cookie ever and to add a little crunch sometimes I add chopped salted peanuts. I love sweet and salty!!!
Monster cookies would have to be my favorite kind of cookies. I love the fact that you can stick anything in ’em and I love their name. Usually, I put oatmeal, chocolate chips, mini M&Ms and mini butterscotch chips. I’m drooling now…thanks 🙂 YUMMMM!
Favorite – cracked cookies. I love them moist on the inside and a tad crispy on the outside. I love the powder sugar on top. It gives it that extra sugar kick.
I love a chocolate chip shortbread style pan cookie I make. You pat it in the pan and when it cools break it apart. I have never figured out what it is, but there is some addictive quality in it that makes me need to come back for another and another and another. Usually I like cookie dough more than the actual cookie, but with these I can’t stop.
My grandmother’s peanut butter cookies are my favorite!
Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite….but I haven’t had a cookie I didn’t like!
I love me a oatmeal chocolate chip cookie- – has to be warm and chewy!
I just bought a bag of these yesterday!!! I think I now have a plan for them!!! <3<3<3
Jennifer
OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP!!! they have a bit of a crunch but are so soft and moist. yumm!!!!
Gooey, thick, chewy, chocolatey, peanut-buttery goodness! Oh yeah!
My favorite cookie is coconut choolate chip cookies with pecans…mmm mmmm mmm
These are my all time faves – blue ribbon good! Inside-Out Carrot Cake Cookies from Gourmet.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Inside-Out-Carrot-Cake-Cookies-109346
Ooh… I love all cookies. Um, I love a good moist oatmeal chocolate chip one, but a good soft homemade gingersnap molasses cookie is hard to beat. 🙂
I love a warm chocolate chip cookie more than anything!
My favorite is a chocolate cookie with peanut butter cup chunks or(PB cup baking chips)
I LOVE peanut butter cups in their original form but adding to a cookie is a double bonus!
Texture is Soft and gooey, when they are warm and you bite into them the chocolate and peanut butter ooze together. mmm!
I love all cookies, but never had a favorite…until now. Pretzel M&Ms are my personal kryptonite- with shame I admit that when they first came out, I was eating around 4 bags a day. I needed an intervention. And once I bake these cookies today, I may need another intervention.
By far, the best cookie ever is a coconut macaroon, with or without Craisins…….so stinkin’ yummy!!!! Okay, chocolate chips cookies are wonderful too!!!!
I love a white chocolate chip cherry cookie. So SO SO good.
Warm, gooey Peanut Butter Blossoms. Nothing beats them when the chocolate is all warm and melty! /drool
My favorite cookie is a Double Chocolate Mint Cookie. Nestle used to make mint chocolate chips that were amazing, and this was the recipe on the back of the bag. They’ve since stopped, but I can still make them almost perfectly with semi-sweet chocolate chips and a ton of peppermint extract. They are thing, but chewy and gooey. Slightly crispy on the edges, better at room temperature than right out of the oven. Perfect for winter, as they were traditionally a Christmas cookie in my house. Best served with a glass of milk, and you better believe Santa was always one lucky guy in my family. 🙂
My favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin – a big, chewy oatmeal raisin to be exact! Of course, Nutella Choc Chip is a rising star in my book too!
I just love me a crispy at the edges, goey in the middle, with or without nuts, hot out the oven, sometimes pizzookie, chocolate chip cookie.
i’m not big on cookies with m&ms, but when you put in pretzels….mmmmm
My fav cookie is shortbread cookies made by this little cookie shop. Light, buttery and heavenly. Love!