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Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies

Published: May 11, 2019 · Modified: Feb 7, 2024 by Tristin Rieken · 2 Comments

Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies have pretzels in the batter three ways for a deep, toasty flavor, and a chewy, crispy texture.

Chocolate chip pretzel cookie with whole pretzel and melted chocolate on the top.
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Pretzel cookie recipe

This is a perfect classic chocolate chip cookie recipe, with a twist. This recipe for cookies with pretzels uses pretzels in three different ways. There’s pretzel ground into flour, chopped and mixed into the batter and placed on top!

Chocolate chip pretzel cookie with whole pretzel and melted chocolate on the top.

These pretzel cookies are chewy in the center with just a slight crispy edge and mounds and mounds of chocolate chips.

Ingredients

  • Pretzels– pretzels are ground up and used in place of a little flour in the batter, they’re also chopped to add texture to the cookie and placed on top so there’s no mistaking that this is not just a classic chocolate chip cookie.
  • Brown sugar – brown sugar makes for extra chewy baked goods.
  • Granulated sugar
  • Chocolate chips
  • All purpose flour
  • Butter
  • Eggs
  • Baking soda
  • Vanilla extract
  • Salt – both fine salt for baking and flaky salt for garnish.

Step by step instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 
  2. Break up pretzels into a fine flour either in a food processor or by smashing in a plastic bag with a rolling pin. Chop up some pretzels into big pieces and leave some whole.
  3. Whisk all purpose flour, pretzel flour, baking soda and salt to combine.
  4. Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Then add eggs, one at a time until smooth before stirring in vanilla.
  5. Gradually add flour mixture and stir just until combined. Add chopped pretzels and chocolate chips. Stir.
  6. Scoop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheet.
Cookie dough on baking sheet.
  1. Add a whole pretzel or a few large pieces to the top of each cookie and sprinkle on a few chocolate chips.
  2. Bake 4 minutes in preheated oven, remove and smooth the chocolate chips into a smear over the top. Sprinkle fleur de sel.
  3. Continue baking just until beginning to set in the center 2-3 minutes more. Remove and let cool on baking sheet 1 minute before transferring to racks to cool.
  4. Enjoy!
Chocolate chip pretzel cookie with whole pretzel and melted chocolate on the top.

How to store

Keep pretzel cookies in airtight container at room temperature for up 5 days or freeze for up to 3 months.

Or freeze unbaked cookie dough close together on baking sheets. Then transfer to a storage container and freeze for up to 6 months. Bake cookies frozen and add several minutes to the total baking time.

Chocolate chip pretzel cookie dough on a baking sheet before being frozen.

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Chocolate chip pretzel cookie with whole pretzel and melted chocolate on the top.

Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies

Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies have pretzels in the batter three ways for a deep, toasty flavor, and chewy, crispy texture. 
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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 170kcal
Author: Tristin Rieken

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 ½ cups pretzels divided into ½ cup and 1 cup
  • 12 ounces semi sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon flaky sea salt optional
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Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 
  • Pulse ½ cup pretzel twists  in food processor until only fine sandy-like pieces remain. Or fill up a plastic bag and smash with a rolling pin or wine bottle until fine to make ¼ cup pretzel flour.  Chop ¾ cup pretzels and leave the remaining ¼ cup pretzel twists whole.
    1 ½ cups pretzels
  • In a medium bowl whisk all purpose flour, pretzel flour, baking soda and salt to combine.
    2 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, ¾ teaspoon salt
  • Cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Then add eggs, one at a time until smooth before stirring in vanilla.
    1 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup light brown sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar, 2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • Gradually add flour mixture and stir just until combined. Add chopped pretzels and chocolate chips. Stir.
    12 ounces semi sweet chocolate chips
  • Scoop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheet. Add a whole pretzel or a few large pieces to the top of each cookie and sprinkle on a few chocolate chips.
  • Bake 4 minutes in preheated oven, remove and smooth the chocolate chips into a smear over the top. Sprinkle fleur de sel and continue baking just until beginning to set in the center 2-3 minutes more.
    1 teaspoon flaky sea salt
  • Remove and let cool on baking sheet 1 minute before transferring to racks to cool before enjoying.

Nutrition

Calories: 170kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 25mg | Sodium: 173mg | Potassium: 77mg | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 180IU | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1.1mg
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  1. Renee

    May 28, 2019 at 7:56 am

    We have made a version of this a few times…so good! We have also made pretzel mocha ice cream which is amazing.

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    • ONE armed MAMA

      May 28, 2019 at 8:11 am

      ooooh, friend, you are SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE with the mocha and pretzels together. yum!!

      Reply

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