Pecan pretzel cookies with chocolate

Total: 31 min. | Active: 20 min.
vegetarian

When I add pecan nuts and crunchy pretzels to my favourite American chocolate chip cookie recipe, I end up with these irresistible cookies – soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside with a sweet & salty note that gives them their distinctive flavour. You can never stop at just one!

Recipe by:
Anita - Breakfast & Bowls

Ingredients

for 10 pieces

Dough
70 g butter, melted, left to cool
120 g coarse cane sugar
egg
1 tsp vanilla paste
120 g white flour
¼ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
80 g pecan nuts, coarsely chopped
30 g mini salted pretzels, roughly crumbled
80 g chocolate drops (see note)
To shape
10  pecan nuts
10  mini salted pretzels
To bake
1 pinch sea salt

How it's done

Dough

Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl. Whisk in the egg and vanilla paste. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt, mix in. Mix in the nuts, pretzels and chocolate.

To shape

Shape the dough into 10 balls. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, leaving plenty of room between each ball, flatten a little. Top with the nuts and pretzels, press down gently.

To bake

Approx. 11 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, sprinkle with fleur de sel. Leave the cookies to cool on a rack.

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