Barb's Crowd-Pleasing Cookies
photo by WiGal
- Ready In:
- 43mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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4 dozen
- Serves:
- 48
ingredients
- 2 cups butter or 2 cups margarine, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 12 ounces peanut butter chips
- 1 cup salted peanuts
- 2 cups crushed pretzels
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt. Blend into creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate and peanut butter chips, peanuts and pretzels.
- Drop by heaping tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake 10 - 13 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned and centers are still soft. Do not over bake. Cool one minute on baking sheet. Cool completely on wire racks. Store in tightly covered container.
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Reviews
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Very good and satisfying cookie. Nice and chunky and sweet/salty combination is great. This makes tons of cookies, so unless you have a crowd to feed, you could probably halve the recipe. Also, I liked that you told chefs to keep the preztels chunky; it makes a difference. Watch the baking time on this. My oven is perfectly set up and calibrated and ten minutes was almost too long! These burn easily. Made for Football Pool 2010.
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I just made these cookies for my quilt guild. Something I noticed from the picture was you used M and M's but not listed as one of ingredients. Crushing the pretzels was not as easy as one would think. I would use my rolling pin next time. Also I might omit the pretzels and add Butterfingers crushed candies which I did. All in all the cookies are delicious. I know they will be a big hit with friends and my grandchildren. Makes a big batch. Great for freezing.
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Wow! These are great! I wanted to have a Packer sweet recipe for next tailgater so used m & m milk chocolates for the yellow, and m & m peanuts for the green which I quartered as they are big. This is a large recipe, I made a half batch and got 34 cookies. Baked mine in less than 11 minutes. I cut the pretzels to chip size--6 cuts per stick next time am going to cut a tad bigger--4 per stick. Thanks Jan for sharing.
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I love kids and animals. I am an active volunteer at my two teenage daughters' high school as well as a Girl Scout leader. We have two guinea pigs, one Dalmatian, one cockatiel, and one quarter-horse to keep us busy. I had a career as a marketing writer before I became a full-time mom and volunteer, but I still write all the time as well as participate in a monthly book club.
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