Description
Delicious loaded cookies featuring a mix of M&M’s, chocolate toffee chunks, and pretzels.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup Butter (softened)
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 2 large Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 3/4 cups Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt (if using unsalted butter, increase to 3/4–1 tsp)
- 1 cup M&M’s (mini or regular)
- 3/4 cup Chocolate Toffee Chunks (Heath bars, chopped into pieces)
- 1 cup Pretzels
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup Butterscotch, Peanut Butter, or Caramel Chips
- 1/2 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment paper. I suggest using light colored baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, beat together softened butter, brown sugar, and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl halfway through.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla extract.
- Fold in flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix just until combined.
- Set aside a small amount of the mix-ins to place on top of the cookies once they are baked. Gently fold in M&M’s, pretzels, chocolate toffee chunks, butterscotch, caramel or peanut butter chips, and chocolate chips. Don’t overmix to avoid breaking down the mix-ins too much.
- Scoop about 3-ounce portions of cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them at least 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until the edges are lightly golden and the centers look slightly underbaked.
- As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, use a small spatula or the back of a spoon to gently nudge the edges into a perfect circle while they’re still warm and pliable. Press a few extra M&M’s, pretzel pieces, chocolate chips, toffee chunks into the tops for gourmet cookies. I like to snap the mini pretzels in half and place two halves on each cookie and extra M&M’s.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
- Optional additions: Reeses Pieces, potato chips, caramel bits, Reeses peanut butter cups.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 11 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 18g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 32g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg