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.
Peanutbutter Cookies. A nice buttery one that just dissolves in your mouth after a big crunch when you bite into it!
Lemon bars are my favorite cookie. Buttery crust, tart filling, powdered sugar sprinkled on top – yum!
My favorite cookie is toffee bitter brickle. Sweet, melt-in-your-mouth toffee, in a chewy pull apart cookie. Heaven in a dessert.
My faaaaavorite cookie is a big soft oatmeal raisin cookie–the kind that’s perfect for dipping in your tea on a rainy afternoon when you’re snuggled on the couch with a bunch of DVRd TV shows and your comfiest yoga pants. Cookie perfection. 🙂
Since I was very young–and that was looonnng ago—my favorite has been Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. OOOH, just thinking about the chewy bite rimmed by a bit of crisp makes me want to swoon. These days, I do rationalize–oatmeal is good whole-grain fiber and raisins are fruit…well, there are a few other ingredients I try not to think about. If I make them, they quickly disappear!
A perfectly chewy, golden chocolate chip cookie with sea salt sprinkled on top. Heaven.
My favorite cookie is the Chocolate Rolo Cookie! With each bite you not only get the chocolate cookie, but also the warm yummy rolo tucked inside….heaven!
My absolute favorite cookie is a King Arthur Flour Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup recipe – http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/chocolate-peanut-butter-cookies-recipe
These. Are. Amazing.
Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite! Crispy, chewy, thin or cakey…I love them all. But they’re always the BEST right out of the oven or when mom makes them 🙂
If I have to pick one, it would be White Chocolate Macadamia with half of it dipped in milk chocolate! The chewy goodness, the crunch of the macadamia and the white and milk chocolate are pure heaven!
My absolute FAVORITE cookie is Martha Stewart’s Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies!! The fresh (yes, fresh!) ginger, the chocolate chunks, the molasses…. oh these gooey, chewy babies are just divine. I get requests for them every year around the holidays and they please everyone so I have to keep a secret stash just for me!
My favorite cookie is oatmeal chocolate chip. Soft, delicious, and chocolaty – but they still feel kind of healthy! Haha!
Peanut butter cookies are my favorite cookies.
This is a tough one! I love my Grandma’s ginger cookies – so chewy and they have that great crunchy sugar on the top but a chewy chocolate chip cookie is always wonderful. I could go on and on…but my faves are just about all chewy cookies instead of crispy/crunchy!
I love ginger cookies, a big soft cookie with lots of flavor of ginger and malasses.
Pretzels and M & M’s together? Can only imagine the yummy recipes in the book!
I looove Snickerdoodles. Just like how my mom makes them. Undercooked. I think the secret to making perfect cookies to to remember that she still cook once you take them out of the oven. So when they almost look done you take them out!
Boy, don’t get me started. So many cookies that I like so I’ll just choose the cookie I’ve been making frequently and that’s Baking Bites “Really Good Chocolate Chip Cookies”. By far, the best I’ve made in that particular category of just a regular chocolate chip cookies. Crisp on the outside and soft on the inside.
Chocolate Salted Caramel Shortbread Cookies are my current favorite. I love the crunchy, buttery bottom and the smooth, chocolate caramel topped with a sprinkle of salt. They are dangerously addictive.
definitely gooey chewy
I am drooling looking at these gorgeous photos. My favorite cookie? I can choose…no really I can’t. I had monster cookies for the first time a couple of years ago, and fell in love with them. My friend made them for me and I could not stop eating them. However, I love biscotti too. I like the crunchiness of them, but I hate crisp chocolate chip. My favorite biscotti? Hands down it is peanut butter rosemary. I love the flavor combination. They are a fabulous little treat, especially with morning coffee or afternoon tea.
It’s hard to choose, but I think my very favorite is a Jumbo Cranberry Oatmeal White Chocolate cookie.
My favorite is Paneras Chocolate Mint Crinkle Cookies. They are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle with a very rich chocolate and perfect amount of mint flavoring. YUM!
My all time favorite cookie is a classic…Warm Chocolate Chip Cookies! Mmm!!
my all time fav is peanut butter cookie with a hersey kiss on top!
My favorite cookies are the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies that the Doubletree Hotel gives you. I have been trying to copy that recipe for years!!
My ultimate cookie is oatmeal cookie with cherries and white chocolate chips!! YUMMMMMM!!!!!
My all time favorite is the vegan chocolate chip cookies they used to serve at my college. They were made with bananas and had a crispy on the outside, yet gooey on the inside kind of texture. To die for.
My favorite cookie is my mother-in-law’s monster cookies – she cuts up caramels (store bought) and puts them on top of the cookies before baking and oh my gosh – it is the best thing to hit your mouth.
But really – I love pretty much any cookie that’s fresh and homemade. None of that store bought garbage!
Mmmm, I love Maria’s cookie recipes! My all time favorite cookies are salted white chocolate craisin – it’s the prefect combo of salty and sweet. I’m excited to try this recipe, it also looks like it will satisfy my cravings for salty and sweet! Yum!
My sister and I made chocolate cookies stuffed with a caramel and topped with sea salt last year for Christmas and they are still one of the first cookies that come to mind when someone asks me my favorite cookie recipe. Delicious!
My favorite cookie is chocolate chip with the little toffee bits in them. The kids call them “candy cookies”.
I love my chocolate chocolate chip cookies. They are soft and delicious and only have six ingredients. Totally processed, but totally good!
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I love cookies…they are my most favorite baked goodie. My favorite cookies are my grandma’s Cream Cheese Press Cookies. They are so light, slightly crisp on the edges and full of sweet cream cheese goodness!
I’m a chocolate chip girl all the way! They are my ultimate weakness!
Chocolate chip cookies that are flat and a little underdone so they have some chew but are still gooey…
It is a butterscotch cookies, a little past chewy with oatmeal and lovely butterscotch chips. If you bake them just right they have a little crisp on the outside.
I love snicker doodle cookies
snickerdoodles are my favorite!
I love soft and gooey chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven with a large cold glass of milk. Nothing is better for me.
Soft and chewy cookies!! I haven’t met one I haven’t loved!
My absolute favorite cookie is a fresh from the oven ooey,gooey, and chewy chocolate chip cookie! I should go make some NOW!
i love monster cookies! oatmeal, peanut butter, choco chips, m&m’s……….no flour!
My all-time favorite cookies are my spin-off of PW’s monster cookies… they are simply amazing! Crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and jam-packed with delicious treats, like m&m’s, pb cups, chocolate chips, almonds, hazelnuts, oatmeal, and rice krispies… mmmmmm!!!
My favorite cookie is from my grandma. Called Chocolate Cookies. Only 6 ingredients. Have to beat the eggs and sugar for 10-15 minutes. Crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. Brings back lots of memories.
My absolute favorite cookie is Oatmeal-Craisin with White Chocolate Drizzle!! YES!
Deep Dark Gooey Chocolate Cookies.
Jam Thumbprints
Chocolate crinkles. Just soft enough and the powdered sugar to make you lick your lips after eating one (or many).
My favorite cookies is my Mom’s chocolate chip cookie recipe. There are walnuts in it and I’ve just never had a better tasting chocolate chip cookie. It’s the first recipe I learned how to make. Mmm, mmm!