Cookie Butter Pretzel Chocolate Balls
makes approximately 18 cookies
Ingredients:
3/4 cup Trader Joe’s Crunchy Cookie Butter
1 1/2 cup crushed pretzels
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
Directions:
In a medium bowl, combine the cookie butter and crushed pretzels together. Chill for about 10 minutes, then using tablespoonfuls, form into 1″ balls onto a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Place the pan in the freezer for about 30 minutes. About 5 minutes prior to removing from the freezer, melt all your chocolate chips, so it is warm and gooey, and ready to coat your pretzel balls. My preferred way of melting chocolate is to use the double boiler method. Remove the pretzel balls from the freezer, and quickly dip each one in the melted chocolate to coat, then place back on the parchment paper. Put all the pretzel balls coated in chocolate back in the freezer or another 30 minutes, or until set.
Oh this is so delicious, but I’m easy please when it comes to dessert. The girls and I made this together and it is inspired by this recipe. I changed it because True is allergic to peanut butter, and I thought cookie butter would be a good substitute. Also, since I made the switch to cookie butter, I decided to leave out the sugar and butter the Martha Stewart recipe called for because it just didn’t seem necessary, and indeed in my version it definitely wasn’t needed. These cookies are totally not healthy, but they are so good! If you want to indulge in a little bit of “low-nu” (low nutrition), make these!
YUM! these sound so yummy!
xxoo,
nikki
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Hi ruby Ellen, can you explain what the crunchy cookie butter is please? Don’t think we have such a thing in Australia so I’m trying to work out a substitute. Thanks. Px
It’s the same thing as Biscoff spread or you might see it labelled Speculoos in Australia. It is essentially ground up gingery cookies with a little oil to make it into a spread.
Thank you for sharing what the alternate what might be!
It has the consistency of creamy peanut butter, but with gingerbread cookie bits. I think it’s like a ginger bread/graham cracker spread with cookie chunks in it. I hope this helps! Someone else shared what it’s like and apparently what’s it’s called there, I believe it’s speculoos.
TJ’s cookie butter!!! — this is probably better for me than eating it off the spoon, at least.