Today is a sweet and salty cookie…MM Pretzel Cookie for Day 4 of Christmas Cookies. I love sweet and salty together, it is like the perfect combination in my eyes. My mom always made MM Cookies for Christmas with green and red MM’s. So I carried on the tradition, except I add some pretzels to the cookies.

My mom was an amazing baker. I only have a few cookies that I make that my mom made. I hope to add a a few each year to my recipe collection. I was trying to figure out how many different cookies my mom for Christmas and I think I want to say give or take. She also made some different Christmas treats, which I am excited to make a few of them this year.

What is one thing you remember baking when you were young?

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg and 1 egg yolk room temperature
• 2 ⅓ cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1- 1 ½ cups MMs
• ¾ cup broken pretzel pieces

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 and line cookie sheets with parchment paper
2. In a medium bowl whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, set aside
3. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes
4. Add egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract, making sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
5. Slowly add the flour mixture to the bowl and mix until just combined
6. Add MM’s and pretzels
7. Using a small cookie scoop, place dough about 2” apart on prepared baking sheets
8. I put an additional pretzel on top of each cookie
9. Bake for 10 minutes or until done

Cookies will stay fresh for 1 week in an airtight container or frozen up to 3 months
Cookie dough can be frozen for 3 months

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I’m Billie, a recipe creator, food photographer, a girl that just loves to be in the kitchen and a travel lover.

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