When it comes to dessert, I get sick of things that are really sweet really fast. I need that salty-sweet combo, you know? Enter these chocolate chip pretzel cookies – they’re chewy, crunchy, and basically everything you need to satisfy both your sugar craving and salty snack craving.
I’ve been on the search for the perfect cookie recipe for awhile, but it’s been a struggle to find one that not only tastes great, but has ingredients I feel good about and not too much of a single ingredient. Don’t get me wrong, I love my nut butter, but I’d prefer not to use entire cups of it for cookies. I wanted a cookie with texture, complex flavors, and an easy making process. I decided on the following ingredients:
1. almond flour and whole wheat pastry flour
2. pretzels
3. dark chocolate
4. sea salt
5. coconut sugar and brown sugar
6. baking powder
7. egg
8. butter
9. peanut butter
10. almond milk
11. vanilla extract
I definitely didn’t go into the kitchen confident that my little experiment would turn out well, but here we are three days later, 12 cookies almost gone. I still have plenty to learn about cookie making, but there’s no better way to learn than trial and error success right?
Salty Sweet Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour sub white whole wheat or all purpose
- 1 cup pretzels
- 2 dark chocolate squares, chopped up
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 cup sugar *I used 1/4 cup coconut sugar and 1/4 cup brown sugar
Wet Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 3/4 stick butter, melted equivalent to 6 tbsp
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 2 tbsp almond milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Break the pretzels into small pieces.
- Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Should be slightly sticky due to the peanut butter before you add the almond milk.
- Combine wet and dry ingredients.
- Prepare a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Make each cookie about 2 tbsp and place them at least an inch from one another. Optional: add a pretzel on top!
- Bake for ~ 12 min, checking often after 8 min.
