White Chocolate and Butterscotch Chip Pretzel Cookies
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Soft cookies loaded with white chocolate, butterscotch chips, and pretzel pieces. The perfect sweet and salty combination!
Every six months or so, Paul and I get an itch for a challenge. Sometimes it’s fitness oriented, and sometimes it could be as mundane as cleaning out the closets (zzzzz.) We’ve sort of reached that sixth month mark again.
He proposed this:
And I agreed…clearly not in my right mind.
He joked that he’ll last the full 21 days, no problem, but I’ll only last 21 minutes. He knows me too well. I do believe, for me, this will be harder than climbing Mount Everest. But I’m not going down without a fight.
So, this past holiday weekend was like a last hurrah before my prison sentence. We ate. And ate. And ATE. I shoveled dip, chips, Cool Whip, Pepsi, and all the white dinner rolls I could manage into my face.
And I made these white chocolate butterscotch pretzel cookies. I lost count on how many I consumed. I figured it was a proper send off into the depths of Hell.
They are hands down my new favorite cookie. I seriously cannot wait until Day 22 when I make them again.
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How To Make This Cookie Recipe
White Chocolate and Butterscotch Chip Pretzel Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, , softened
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup butterscotch chips
- 1/2 cup broken up pretzel pieces
- sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar together with a mixer until well combined. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- In medium bowl mix the flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to wet ingredients until thoroughly combined. Gently mix in the white chocolate, butterscotch chips, and pretzels.
- With a tablespoon sized cookie scoop, form balls with the dough. Place onto parchment or silpat lined baking sheets 2 inches apart. Press down on the dough rounds slightly and sprinkle with sea salt. Bake cookies for approximately 15-18 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
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Nutrition
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THANK YOU for posting this fabulous recipe! I found your recipe on pinterest, and made a double recipe for a gaggle of upper elementary boys today. We all gobbled up the delightful cookies. Thanks again!
These are one of my favorite cookies, and definitely a crowd pleaser! I’m so glad everyone enjoyed them. Thanks, Naomi!
This recipe sounds awesome. Do you think I can double the recipe without making any adjustments to it? I don’t know how that kind of thing works.
Hi Gina – if you double the ingredients exactly, it will be fine. And more cookies! You’ll love these.
Chocolate IS a health food, especially organic dark chocolate.
I’m going to make these for my sons-in-law for helping us move furniture this weekend. BTW, don’t know if you noticed or not, but there is a pretty bad word on the bottom of your no junk food challenge list in tiny print. Just sayin’ :-/
No, I’ve never noticed it. Doesn’t bother me, though :) Your sons-in-law will love these and probably offer to help move furniture again! Ha.
Sweet & Salty! A PERFECT COMBINATION! I will be making a batch SOON! Thank you for the great recipe!
These are truly one of my favorite cookies for that very reason! Enjoy!
I seriously can’t wait to post about my experience last week. Every day, my friend Beth calls me and asks if I’ve written it yet because she can’t stop laughing hysterically about it. Let’s just say that it’s tentatively called “How the Baconator saved me from my juice cleanse”. In other words, I can tooootally relate! Good luck, I know you can do it!!
Haha! Good for you. I would have done the same. ESPECIALLY, if I had a batch of these cookies on my counter. Thank you for sharing with me! I’m glad I stumbled on your blog tonight. I hope you have a great end to your week!
NOW I understand why you said you can’t snack anymore! The world makes sense all of a sudden. I still maintain that fruit and almonds are the way to go snackwise. They’re my go-tos. Having a bag of cherries on your table helps. A ton.
Maybe I’ll just eat more than my fair share of these during your 21 days to make up for your LACK of eating? Really…I would do that for you.
I’m not always a fan of pretzels in my sweets…but these actually sound quite delish. I love the sweet/salty combo and the two different chips.
On another note, you are CRAZY girl. If you last 21 days, I will forever look up to you as the junk food god. I could never do it. Too many things on that list that keep the moody girl away. :) GOOD LUCK!
See, I’m the other way. I’m not a huge fan of pretzels UNLESS they’re in something sweet. Like these cookies. Or my candy corn bark. Or with caramel turtles…
If I was talking to someone I didn’t know so well, this might come off boastful or snotty but I know you know I don’t mean it that way: I am genuinely surprised by how difficult you find this challenge. Perhaps I assume we are alike so much of the time that the fact that I would find it easy (easy easy… I just don’t eat any of this stuff, like, hardly ever, not even chips) means you should, too. See? I sound jerky, but you know I don’t mean it that way. ;) In any case, as I said on FB, I have no doubt you will make it to 21 days easy – just look at it as a temporary thing, a break for your body to reset itself. No problem!
Ha! If Amy makes it the entire 21 days, I will be literally stunned.
She bakes quite probably 5 days a week, consumes sugary yummy goodness like it’s the last day she will ever eat it, and watching her yesterday eat everything she listed above in mass quantities as if it was her last day on Earth was, well, disgustingly impressive.
Amy, I wish you luck! Oh, and I got to take some cookies home; they are amazingly yummy!
Ya. It was pretty obscene. And there’s a touch of dill pickle dip left today, but what’s the point if I can’t dunk a pretzel in it? Day #1 is hard…
As I said earlier this morning, I didn’t misunderstand. I know where your words are coming from. And I’m surprised to find out you weren’t aware of my over-excessive snacking! Trust me, this is harder for me than Insanity ever was. Crazy, I know. I better see some sort of reward at the end of these 3 weeks. Like a unicorn.
These sound right up my alley!