Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies-chocolate chip cookies with salted caramel, pretzels, and a sprinkling of sea salt. You will love the sweet and salty combo!
We bake cookies every Sunday, it is our tradition. I usually do most of the baking and the boys do most of the eating, but we all have a good time in the kitchen. The boys do try to help by making music with the measuring cups and they love whisking the dry ingredients together. Caleb and Maxwell are also my best taste testers. They always come running when it is time to lick the bowl and when the cookies come out of the oven.
Yesterday, we made Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies and the boys loved them! They gave them two thumbs up!
I am a sucker for all things sweet and salty. Why choose one when you can have both? These cookies have it ALL!
The chocolate chip cookies are pretty much perfection on their own, but they get even better after the salted caramel and pretzels are added in. Oh, and to bring out the salty kick even more I sprinkled the cookies with a little bit of sea salt. Cookie heaven!!!!!
I think I have a new favorite cookie…and my boys agree! The chocolate and caramel all over their faces said it all! And the fact that they both devoured two cookies. It was the weekend, we were all splurging:) And trust me, you won’t be able to stop at just one cookie. These Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies are amazing! Bake a batch today!
If you like these Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies, you might also like:
- Salted Caramel Cashew Banana Bread
- Salted Caramel Rice Krispies Treats
- Salted Caramel Butterscotch Blondies
- No Churn Salted Caramel Toffee Pretzel Ice Cream
- Salted Caramel Sauce
Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Prep Time
- 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped pretzels
- 18-20 caramels cut in half (I like to use Trader Joe's Fleur de Sel Caramels)
- Pretzel twists for pressing on cookies about 36
- Extra sea salt for sprinkling on cookies
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with a Silpat baking mat or parchment paper and set aside.
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In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
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Using a stand mixer, cream butter and sugars together for about 3 minutes. Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix until combined. With the mixer on low, slowly add in the dry ingredients. Stir in the chocolate chips and chopped pretzels.
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Form the cookie dough into balls, about 2 tablespoons of dough. Place a caramel piece in the center of the dough ball, making sure the cookie dough completely covers the caramel. This will prevent the caramel from oozing out in the oven. Place on prepared baking sheet, about 2 inches apart. Gently press a pretzel twist on top of each cookie. Sprinkle cookies with sea salt.
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Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden brown. Remove from oven and let cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a wire cooling rack and cool completely.
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Note-the cookies will keep in an airtight container for 3-4 days.
Woaah, these look delicious! I love the combination of something salty in my cookies, so yes yes yes I will have to pin this for later! 🙂
These look so amazing! And the pretzels on top bring everything together. I would eating two too.
These look basically PERFECT!! What a great flavor combo. I need to start baking cookies on Sunday, too!! So fun.
Adding all my favorites into one dish is awesome. It cant get any better. I’m going to try this for the coming weekend.
That salty and sweet combo gets me every time. I need a batch of these soon!
Those pretzel twists make these cookies!
I could cry these look so good Maria!
I love the sweet and salty!!
These look AMAZING!!! I’ll take three, please!
these are absolutely gorgeous! i also am a sweet & salty fanatic!
hey girl these look so divine!
I really like sweet salty, Carmel and chocolate! Can’t wait to try these. Keep the recipes coming. I also love hearing about what you and your boys do.
I am a total sweet and salty person, so these are calling my name!!
OMG, I want these amazing cookies right now!
Oh wow, they look absolutely fantastic!! And I love the sweet and savory combo. I can’t resist, I need to bake them this coming weekend. Thank you so much for the recipe! 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe! I just made these this afternoon and they are amazing; perfect balance of salty and sweet. This recipe is definitely a keeper and I will come back to it again and again.
These look amazing!! Love salty and sweet together too! Great idea!
These cookies look so delicious! I’ve been looking for something unique to bring to a potluck.
First of all, these ingredients – caramel, chocolate, pretzels – sound like they make an absolutely delicious cookie! I am however struggling with a problem: I have to convert the amount of each ingredient into grams since I live in Europe and measuring cups are very unusual over here. Supposed 1 cup of flour will be about 125 grams, 1 cup of sugar about 200 grams, according to this the total amount of sugars (400 g) in this recipe seems fairly high – and there is even more sugar in chocolate and caramel. Could you please confirm the amount of sugar? Thanks a lot – looking forward to making these soon!
I made these last Saturday with my daughter. They are amazing! Cookies are my favorite kind of treat, and these are my new favorite cookie 🙂
Yay! So happy you liked them!
These sound amazing! All the best things in one cookie! Yum!
Great recipe! These are delicious and easy to make. I think my husband’s co-workers are going to appreciate me very much, haha. I’m not near a Trader Joe’s so I used the new soft variety of Werther’s Originals caramels.
This sounds SO delicious!! YUMMY!
I would LOVE for you to share this with my Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pluckyrecipescraftstips/
Instead of caramels could I use peanut butter chips or would that mess up the cookies structure ?
Thanks!
Ever since I saw this post I’ve been wanting to make these – finally did today and they’re delicious! Looking forward to taking them to a dinner party!
Made these today. Very easy – I bake VERY rarely, and SO DELICIOUS. Thanks for this great recipe!
Hello, I was thinking about making the dough for these cookies and freezing them for later. Would that make the pretzels soggy at all or affect their crispness?
I just made these last night. My hubby absolutely loved them! I may or may not be eating one right now for breakfast. Thanks for the great recipe.
The caramels made the bottoms of my cookies fall out so they were oozing caramel all over the counter while cooling.
That happened to some of my cookies too. They are delicious!
I was only able to find chocolate sea salt caramels. Should I cut out the sea salt from the recipe so they aren’t too salty?
Would I be able to freeze these after I bake them and take them out when I need them?
Yes, our freezer is full of cookies. I freeze them all of the time!
Made thsese today. So easy and delicious! They were a hit!
Making these for Santaaaaaa! (also known as my face.)
Can you store them linger then 3 to 4 days? Or can you freeze them?
I just made these…delicious. Thank you
OMG what a delicious and greedy recipe!
I really love pretzel…and I’m starving thinking at those in a sweet chocolate combination! I have to try it asap! ^_^
Thanks a lot for the usual, great, inspiration.
I love the addition of pretzels to give a sweet and salty feel! Can’t wait to try these!
These cookies were indeed yummy. I did however have a problem with the caramels sinking to the very bottom. The second time I made them I put the caramel on the top of the unbaked cookies and just pushed slightly into the dough and that worked better for me.
Can I freeze these?
Yes!
These were amazing! I did them over as cookies, and the second time as cookie bars topped with brownie batter! They were amazing!
Glad you liked the recipe!
My salted caramel pretzel cookie dough is very dry. very hard to work with . what can I do to moisten it> Just tried one pan so far.
Weird, they have never been dry for me. Did you add too much flour? You can try adding a egg yolk.
Made these tonight, the were delicious!!! Thank you!! 🙂
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Could you use Kraft Caramel Bits instead of the caramel candy squares you are using? I find that sometimes they harden and not as good?
These cookies look so delicious!
Do you place 1/2 a caramel in the center of the cookie ball? Or a whole caramel, that has been cut in half?
Thank you
Just found your cookie recipe and made them on Sunday. OMG! They’re soooo good, and it was all i could do to stop going to the cookie jar! I gave half of them to my daughter, but now regret doing so LOL. Her family loves them too, will be making them at their house (hope they share!). These are now our new go to cookie, thanks for sharing!
WOW!..my family loves these cookies. The salty sweet is perfect. 3 dozen of these cookies disappears in a day in my house. These have become my familys fav cookies. You can’t just have one.
Dionne
Calgary, Ab
It seems like within the span of two days the actual ingredient list & recipe have disappeared. Help?
Can you please email me the actual recipe? Thanks!
I have these on the oven baking as we speak! Except, I used GLUTEN FREE flour. Hoping it still works!!
And GF pretzels! And Rolos candy instead of caramels.
This is a go to recipe. Haven’t had anyone say they don’t like it. Even my little guy, who tends towards salty not sweet. Even made if for the “Food Stuffed with Other Food” competition at work.
Glad you like the cookies! Thanks for letting us know!
I just finished making these and they are amazing! My husband has declared them the best cookies he’s ever had. I had some trouble with the caramel melting through the cookie and falling through the cooling rack and breaking a few of them – but probably an easy fix with a bit more dough 🙂 Will be making again soon!!
Glad you liked the cookies. Yes, just make sure the caramel is completely covered with cookie dough!
I am a sucker for all things sweet and salty!
Did you notice if the pretzels got soft after a day or so? These look AMAZING, but I have had other cookies that involved pretzels and by day 2 the pretzels were mush. Just curious if you noticed that with these… or if they even made it that long!
Great recipe for a sleepover at night! We even put them in muffin tins and made cookie bowls! A long night spent in the kitchen is a good night. (until like 12)
OMG. This looks so yummy!!! Gotta try this out. Thanks for the recipe
Better content. I read one yesterday and truly this one is way better.
EVERY time I make these cookies, I get begged for the recipe which I happily give!! They are so decadent and amazing!
Yay!!
I just made these and they are deliscious!! The only problem I had was when trying to form dough into cookie, they became a little sticky and when baked flattened out a bit more than I would have liked. Would you recommend sticking dough in fridge first ?
Maybe because it is summer and hot? I never have that problem. Yes, you can stick it in the fridge for awhile. Glad you liked the cookies!
These cookies were amazing! They turned out perfectly. I chilled the dough for 30 minutes; I think that might help prevent the caramel falling out and the cookies spreading too thin. Everyone at work loved them. I think I have a new favorite cookie recipe!
I am so glad you enjoyed the cookies!
I made these and they are fantastic, I think I like these better than plain chocolate chip cookies. They came out looking like something you would buy at a bakery! My husband took these and to work with two other different types of cookies I had made and these won hands down. If you like chocolate chip cookies you should try these.
Yay! I am so happy you enjoyed the cookies!! Thanks for letting us know!
they are amazing i call them crack on steroid cookies, but i would love to get a nutritional fact on this that would be great as well. I like to make conversions to make them better or lower calories
They were so good. Will make them again!
Cookie perfection! Could not have been happier with how they turned out!
AMAZING!! I loved these. I used Kraft caramel and dark brown sugar. I had to cook almost twice as long but they turned out fantastic. I had cookies for dinner!
I have died and gone to cookie heaven!
I made these for the teachers during ‘teacher week” in May this year. They were a big hit! Great recipe!
I judged these cookies at one of our local fairs in our area and sent them on to the State Fair. I asked the young lady if I could have the recipe and she gave me the web site which they must list in their write up where they got the recipe. I shared a taste with some of the other judges and we all agreed they were State Fair worthy.
I hav Argus Rico tic bot and they don’t spread like yours…what am I doing wrong they are more thick and not so chewy but they are tasty!!!
I have made these multiple times and they are a hit, especially at the annual cookie exchange party I host every year. Easy to make.
I have been looking for the salted caramel chocolate chip cookies. Can this particular recipe be made without the pretzels and still not affect the cookies?
You can leave the pretzels out!