Chubby Hubby
I’m not referring to MY hubby, because he says pretzels don’t belong in sweet things. But any other hubby who eats these will surely become chubby. These are your basic chocolate chip cookie except with less chocolate chips and additional peanut butter chips and pretzel pieces. They’re not very photogenic and I don’t have a ton of pictures, so I will start with a picture of my adorable kitten, Maya, sniffing the flowers that our friend Liz gave us.
Chubby Maya
For the recipe, I started with one from Recipezaar and made a couple changes:
cookie dough
-1 cup butter
-1/2 cup sugar
-1/2 cup brown sugar
-1 egg
-1 Tbsp. vanilla
-2 cups flour
-1/2 tsp. baking soda
-1 pinch salt
-1 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
-1 cup peanut butter chips
-1 cup pretzel pieces (about the same size as the chocolate chips)
Stalking half-baked cookies
Do exactly what you would do if you were making chocolate chip cookies: Mash butter and sugar, add egg and vanilla, mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl and then stir them into the butter and sugar, add the chips & pretzels, stir, bake at 350 F for 11 minutes until edges barely start to brown and middle is still soft and pale colored.
Well, I really like these cookies, but they make me crave the real Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby. I may have to invest in some vanilla ice cream to eat with these!