To continue the countdown of the end of pharmacy school (5 weeks to go!), I give you the sweet and salty cookie bar. These cookie bars are packed with chocolate chips, caramel bits, peanuts, and pretzels. I have been on a sweet and salty kick lately, and these bars definitely hit the spot!
This past weekend we went skiing at Lake Tahoe. It hasn’t been the best snow season, but the snow was surprisingly still good and we had a lot of fun. It was actually too warm for skiing weather – I was in a t-shirt only on Saturday! I didn’t even want hot chocolate, which is my favorite thing to drink during breaks. We stayed at a new hotel in South Lake, and I really liked it a lot! It is always fun finding new favorite hotels in the area 🙂 Today was rough waking up early for work, and even now my whole body is still hurting. Hopefully tomorrow it is better!
Do you prefer sweet, salty, or both? What would you add to your cookie bars?
- ¾ cup unsalted butter (1.5 sticks), room temperature
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup chopped caramel squares
- ⅓ cup chopped peanuts
- ½ cup mini pretzel twists
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or mixing bowl with electric beaters, cream the butter, salt and sugars together.
- Add the eggs one at a time while mixing on low speed, then add the vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda.
- Slowly add the flour mixture while mixing on low speed until blended.
- Stir in the chocolate chips, caramel squares, pretzels, and peanuts by hand with a spoon.
- Spread the cookie dough onto a greased 9x13-inch baking sheet.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and top with chocolate chips and pretzel pieces, if desired.
- Let cool 1 hour before cutting into squares.
I love the combination of sweet and salty, so these bars look SO amazing to me. YUM!
mmmm, delicious!
These look super delicious! Loving the sweet and salty- definitely need to try these!
Great looking snack! Something for everyone.
I need some warmer weather. It’s going to be below zero again this week 🙁 However, these awesome looking bars are sure to warm me up. I’m drooling looking at the pics!
Caramel is the best!!! What terrific bars. Hope the last 5 weeks so quickly for you…glad you had time to squeeze in some fun!!!
I agree, caramel IS the best 🙂 Thanks, I always make time for baking 😉
yay only 5 weeks! YAYYYY SWEET N SALTY COOKIE BARS! They look omg soooooo goooood. I wanna gobble em all up!
Thanks Kayle!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could eat this whole recipe! It’s just amazing and would be simply dangerous around me!! I love it!!
Haha, thanks Jen!
Pretzels and caramel, really can’t go wrong!
You’re very fortunate to be able to go skiing so easily for a weekend. Our snow season is so short and often there’s little snow to ski on – just chewing-gum slush with a layer of ice. They say if you can ski in Australia you can ski anywhere in the world (because our conditions are so terrible) And it’s so expensive. Your cookie bars look so wonderful and I love the combination of ingredients – a taste sensation in every bite xx
Yummo… sweet, salty, crunchy; and I love that eating this bar is like eating only the best part of the cookie, the gooey center!