Chocolate Chunk & Pretzel Cookie Bars

Ingredients

• FOR THE BARS:
• 2 cups All-purpose Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ½ teaspoons Salt
• ¾ cups Unsalted Butter
• 1 cup Packed Brown Sugar
• ½ cups Granulated Sugar
• 2 whole Eggs
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla
• 12 ounces, weight Bag Of Good Quality Chocolate Chunks
• 1-½ cup Pretzel Twists, Broken Into Small Pieces, Plus More To Sprinkle On Top
• FOR THE DRIZZLE:
• ⅛ cups Melted Peanut Butter
• ⅛ cups Melted Chocolate

Preparation Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC). Grease a 9×13 pan with a lip.

In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, add butter and both sugars and beat on medium until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla, then turn to low and slowly mix in the dry ingredients. Turn off mixer and stir in chocolate chunks and pretzel twists, using a spoon or spatula.

Add batter evenly into the greased pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown. Remove the pan to a cooling rack.

While the bars are cooling, prepare the drizzle by melting chocolate and peanut butter in a Ziploc bag in the microwave. Just heat it for a few seconds until melted but make sure you don’t heat it so long that the bag melts! Cut a corner off the bag and drizzle melted chocolate over the bars. Add the remaining pretzels and allow to cool completely before cutting.

Cut into 30 bars. Enjoy.

Recipe Source: Brown Eyed Baker