Barkeep Cookies

You probably don’t think of cookies when you think of being at a bar. But you might be reminded of those little bowls of roasted peanuts or pretzels often found on the bar tops at casual dives. Those peanuts and pretzels aren’t just for appeasing your appetite at the bar, they also make the perfect salty addition to a sweet cookie.

Cookies on plate with milk

That’s how these barkeep cookies came to be. Besides whole wheat peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip peanut pretzel cookie seems like a mouthful of a recipe title 🙂

Cookies never last long at our house, but these little mounds of goodness went even faster. Probably because they aren’t overly sweet, but a nice balance of salty and sweet.

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Barkeep Cookies

  • Author: Ashley
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 13 minutes
  • Total Time: 23 minutes
  • Yield: 1822 cookies 1x
  • Category: Cookies
  • Method: Baking

Description

These salty sweet cookies don’t spread out a lot, but they do brown quickly so be sure to keep an eye on the time. 


Ingredients

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  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/3 cup old fashioned oats
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 cup natural peanut butter
  • 3/4 cup lightly packed brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 5 Tbsp butter, room temp
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp molasses (not blackstrap)
  • 1 tsp vanilla 
  • 1/2 cup roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
  • 3/4 cup pretzels, broken into pieces
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. 
  2. Spray two cookie sheets with cooking spray and set aside.
  3. In a small bowl, combine the flour, oats, and baking soda. Set aside. 
  4. In a stand mixer, beat the butter, peanut butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until fluffy. 
  5. Add the egg, molasses, and vanilla to the butter mixture and beat until combined.
  6. On low, beat in the dry ingredients just until blended. 
  7. Stir in the nuts, pretzels, and chocolate chips. 
  8. Using a spoon scoop out dough into 2-3 Tbsp drops onto prepared cookie sheets. 
  9. Bake for 8 minutes. 
  10. Rotate cookie sheets for even baking. 
  11. Bake an additional 5-6 minutes, until golden brown. 
  12. Remove from oven and cool on cookie sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely. 

Notes

We’ve used both mini chocolate chips and regular sized chips in these and found that the larger chips stand up to the pretzels and peanuts better. 

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