These are one of my all time favorite cookie recipes. These Chocolate Pretzel Cookies taste just like Sugar Cookies with a classic chocolate spin to them. You taste a moist cookie with each bite that just melts in your mouth. After eating a couple cookies, I make my husband take these from me or I will eat them all. I absolutely love them!
How to Make Chocolate Pretzel Cookies
These are pretty straightforward easy to make cookies, the only part that takes a couple extra minutes is shaping them into pretzels (I’ll show you how to do that below). In a large bowl cream together confectioners sugar, butter, salt and vanilla. By using confectioners sugar you’re guaranteed a soft and moist cookie. Now add in the cocoa powder and flour and continue mixing until a dough forms. I recommend using a Dutch processed unsweetened cocoa powder as I think it has more of a mellow smoother chocolate flavor. If you can only find natural unsweetened cocoa powder (like Hershey’s) that’ll work too. If you want to know more about different cocoa powders, here’s a great comparison. Break off a piece of dough about the size of a ping pong ball. I like to do this now until all the dough is gone so they’re all ready to shape into pretzels.
How to shape a pretzel cookie
Place the cookies on parchment paper (easy cleanup) or silicone baking mats. We will be giving the pretzels a simple egg white glaze so the sugar sticks to them. In a small bowl whisk together a large egg white and 1 tablespoon water. Brush the egg glaze on top of each pretzel. Now you’ll want to sprinkle coarse sugar on top of them. Tip: If you can’t find coarse sugar, you can buy a box of sugar cubes (like the $1 box) and crush them up gently until you have sugar that is coarse. That’s what I did. 🙂
Now sprinkle the sugar on top of the pretzels and bake for 14-16 minutes. Once they come out of the oven they will be slightly soft, but they will firm up quickly. Just allow them to cool for about 15 minutes. And just like that you have almost 2 dozen Chocolate Pretzel Cookies to devour. I mean share. Actually I mean devour. But you can share too. Ok, it’s up to you! I label these as Christmas cookies, but I make these year round as they’re one of my favorite Chocolate Cookies. If you wanted to make them into Vanilla Pretzel Cookies you can use a traditional vanilla cookie dough recipe, and then shape as shown here.
Cookie Exchange Recipes
I like giving out baked goods for holiday presents, especially to the people that help us everyday, like Enceladus’s teachers, morning crossing guards and staff in our building. For this I make a variety of cookies and fill up a tin with 3-4 different types of cookies. Everyone always tells me these Chocolate Pretzel Cookies are one of their favorites!
Other Christmas Cookie Recipes:
Here’s some other Christmas Cookie Recipes that I think you’ll like. Christmas Donut CookiesPeanut Butter BlossomsCream Cheese Sugar CookiesPeanut Butter Thumbprint CookiesNutella Butter CookiesPeanut Butter Sugar CookiesChristmas Shortbread CookiesChristmas Cookies that Kids Can MakeSugar Puff CookiesSnowball CookiesChow Mein Noodle Cookies I hope you like these Chocolate Sugar Cookies as much as I do! Just try not to eat them all! 🙂 Pin for later:
