
Sweet and Salty Cookies Recipe
Combine the salty deliciousness of pretzels with the scrumptious sweet taste of M&M’s and butterscotch chips, and you’ve got yourself the perfect combination in one dessert: Sweet and Salty Cookies! This soft and chewy cookie will melt in your mouth and leave you craving for more! Add a glass of warm milk or hot chocolate and you’ve got yourself a perfect late-night snack! Being a dessert fanatic myself, I love the great taste of a traditional salty pretzel, and I’m always up for any kind of sweet treat (or a very sweet glass of wine)! This is the perfect cookie for those who want the best of both worlds mixed together into one perfect little dessert! Who knew pairing sweet and salty together could create such a perfect match?
You will only need a few simple ingredients to get these going:
Ingredients
- French vanilla cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 Cup oil
- 1 Cup Hershey’s Chipits Reese Peanut Butter Chips
- 1 Cup chopped pretzels sticks
- 1 Cup M&M’s Milk Chocolate Candies Stand up Pouch

They are very simple, but follow these directions closely:
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Combine the cake mix, oil, and eggs into a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
- Mix until soft dough forms
- Add in Reese baking chips, M&M, and pretzels.
- Mix until well combined
- Take a small ice cream scoop and scoop some dough onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet, 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes
- Once baked, pull the sheet out of the oven and let sit for a minute or two
- Transfer to a wire rack and let cool before enjoying.
Makes 3 dozen
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Sweet and Salty Cookies
Ingredients
- French vanilla cake mix
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 Cup oil
- 1 Cup Hershey’s Chipits Reese Peanut Butter Chips
- 1 Cup chopped pretzels sticks
- 1 Cup M&M’s Milk Chocolate Candies Stand up Pouch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Combine the cake mix, oil, and eggs into a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
- Mix until soft dough forms
- Add in Reese baking chips, M&M, and pretzels.
- Mix until well combined
- Take a small ice cream scoop and scoop some dough onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet, 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes
- Once baked, pull the sheet out of the oven and let sit for a minute or two
- Transfer to a wire rack and let cool before enjoying.
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oh my gosh these sound amazing! what a great combination with the pretzels and the m&ms and peanut butter cups WOW
Love Sweet and Salty and these look delicious, will be making this, plus so easy
Mmmmm I haven’t tried these but I already know I love them, a little bit of everything and my favourite sweet and salty, yummmm!!!
Hmm special cookies all right.
I am a big fan of sweet and salty treats as the salt seems to accentuate the sweetness in such a tantalizing way!
This looks divine! The perfect combo!
I’m afraid this recipe’s not for me, I’ve got a sweet tooth and I don’t like Reese baking chips, M&M, nor pretzels – sorry!
You can definitely substitutes for sweets and salty food items that you like:)
Love the salty-sweet combo!
GAH! Another wicked looking cookie recipe. What are you doing to us? Yum!
Thanks! Hoping you will make the recipe!
These sound great. They would really help my sweet tooth. Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you for sharing your cookie recipe. They look delicious.
I’ve never tried sweet and salty together in cookies, but it looks like an interesting recipe!
I made this recipe and it was good
Glad you enjoyed the cookies and thanks for sharing!
I love the addition of pretzels in the cookies, I never would have thought to try that but I’m sure it’s delicious!
Such a unique cookie recipe! I will have to try these as soon as this heatwave breaks in Alberta.
These definitely sound like my kind of cookies. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
I love the combination of sweet and salty.
Wow those look delicious! pinned!
These sound wonderful. I would have never thought of putting chopped pretzels in cookies.
these sweet-salty cookies looks delicious
These cookies look so delicious and the sweet, salt combination has my mouth watering
This will be perfect for tonight. Dessert is my favorite part of the meal! Im writing up the list of ingredients now.
These would make a great addition to our Christmas baking list!
Interesting list of ingredients,I never had a cookie that contained pretzels .
These sound like our favorite trail mix, so I’m sure we’d love them!
These cookies look so good. I can’t wait to try them. Thank you for the recipe!
My pleasure!
The cookies look so good They have a bit of everything in them