Peanut Butter M&M Pretzel Cookies

Salty and sweet are a great combination, one I've used before with my Pretzel M&M Toffee Bars. I'm bringing those same flavors back but this time adding peanut butter to make these Peanut Butter M&M Pretzel Cookies.

I came up with this recipe a few months back. When thinking of recipes to enter into the Orange County Fair Get Baking Cookie Contest, I decided to use this one. A yummy peanut butter cookie, mixed with a classic candy and chunks of pretzel to make this cookie more than your average cookie, I hoped the judges would like it.

And they did! I won third place in the peanut butter category in the contest which had over 200 entries total! I still can't believe it! I am so excited to share my cookie recipe with all of you.

Peanut Butter M&M Pretzel Cookies

makes about 3 dozen cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup softened unsalted butter
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups milk chocolate M&M's
• 1 cup pretzels (broken into pieces)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375F Degrees

2. Beat butter, peanut butter and sugars together until creamy. Beat in eggs.

3. In a separate bowl, stir flour, baking powder baking soda and salt together. Stir into batter until blended. Add M&M's and pretzel pieces and mix well.

4. Bake for about 10 minutes.