Peanut Butter Caramel Pretzel Cookie Cups - Lovely Little Kitchen (2024)

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So you know those Take Five candy bars? Yes? These are the cookie cup version of those. They’ve got pretzels, caramel, peanut butter, and milk chocolate. I always have to talk myself out of buying them when I’m standing in the check out line at the grocery store. My boys beg me to buy the kind of gum that unrolls to be six feet long, and I want a Take Five candy bar – no and no!

Now let’s just wait patiently while this lady in front of us ad matches the whole store!

So these cookie cups are inspired by that candy bar, and they are all that and so much more. You’ve gotta make these!

If you are a sweet and salty lover, these are knock-your-socks-clear-outta-the-park amazing. This recipe makes 12 LARGE cookie cups. These are made in a standard size muffin tin, not the mini one. In other words, they weigh about 10 pounds each and are the size of a small child. Well, almost.

So here’s how you make them. First, you make a basic cookie dough. It’s actually my favorite chocolate chip cookie dough without the chocolate chips.

Then you scoop (with an ice cream scoop) a ball of dough into the greased muffin tin. Bake them, and then while they are still warm, you press a whole peanut butter cup (not the little ones, the regular ones) into the warm cookie.

When the cookies have cooled down a bit, twist them out of the muffin tin and let them finish cooling in the fridge so that the chocolate can set again. It gets pretty melty from the warm cookie.

Then caramel is poured over the peanut butter cup, and a pretzel goes on top. I had to take a couple of pictures of these babies in my hand so you could have something to reference for size.

If you’re still not sure if you want to try these or not, I had 7 different people taste them for me, and they all loved them… Okay, those seven people were my husband, boys, my mom, my sister and myself! But we all loved them! Hope you enjoy too!

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