Loaded-Up Pretzel Cookies

Recipe provided courtesy of Taste of Home magazine.  Find more great recipes at www.tasteofhome.com

Coconut, M&M’s and salty, crunchy pretzels – or any other treats you like – push these cookies over the top.  And that’s the way we like them.

Jackie Ruckwardt                                                                             Cottage Grove, OR

Loaded-Up Pretzel Cookies Recipe

Loaded-Up Pretzel Cookies

 

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

2 ½ cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

2 cups miniature pretzels, broken

1 ½ cups flaked coconut

1 ½ cups milk chocolate M&M’s

Preheat oven to 350 F.  In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.  Beat in eggs and vanilla.  In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture.  Stir in remaining ingredients.

Shape ¼ capfuls of dough into balls; place 3 inch apart on ungreased baking sheets.  Bake 12-14 minutes or until golden brown.  Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

(Recipe for Loaded-Up Pretzel Cookies was in tasteofhome magazine, Recipes From Families Just Like Yours, April/May 2013)