Take 5 Cookie

    A few days ago when i took a nap i had a dream about a Take 5 cookie. When i woke up i decided i HAD to make one! I've never heard about anyone making a Take 5 cookie before, which made it even more appealing. Ever since the Take 5 candy bar came out a few years ago i loved it. I decided to go with a peanut butter cookie dough as the base with chocolate chips and caramel chips in it and crushed up pretzels on top. After the first batch came out of the oven i realized that most of the salt fell off the pretzels when crushing them up... and to me the contrast of sweet and salty makes it soo delicious... so i sprinkled some sea salt on top. Boy did it do the trick! My boyfriend ate half a dozen alone last night! These may be my favorite cookie!

Take 5 Cookie Recipe

(Makes 4 dozen)

Ingredients:

1 cup butter or margarine

1  ¼ cup peanut butter

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

1 ½ tsp baking soda

1 cup caramel chips

1 cup milk chocolate chips

about 1 cup sugar, to roll dough in

sea salt

pretzels, broken up

Directions:  

• Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• In separate bowl, sift together baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir into batter. Add caramel and chocolate chips, mix until just combined. Refrigerate 1 hour.

 

• Roll into 1 inch balls and cover with sugar then put on baking sheets. Flatten each ball with fork, making a criss-cross pattern. Bake 5 minutes.

 

• Take cookies out of oven. Sprinkle with small amount of salt. Carefully press pretzels into cookies. Place cookies back in oven and bake about another 5 minutes.