Chocolate Pretzel Slice Cookies

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Ingredients

• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
• ½ tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
• ¾ cup butter, softened
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 cup pretzels, crushed*
• Coarse sea salt

Directions

1. Whisk flour, cocoa and baking powder in medium bowl. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl at medium speed 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time, beating until combined. Beat in vanilla.
2. At low speed, slowly beat in flour mixture. Beat in pretzels. Divide dough in half; roll into two logs. Cover and refrigerate 2 hours or until firm.
3. Preheat oven to 375°F. Slice cookies ¼” thick; place on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Lghtly sprinkle with sea salt. Bake 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool completely on wire rack.

*To crush pretzels, place in resealable plastic bag and crush with flat side of a meat mallet or rolling pin.

Hot Mama Grade: B+

Hot Mama Notes: These cookies were good.  Very good, even.  But not *amazing*.  Maybe I'm being unnecessarily hard on this recipe.  After all, it is very simple and quick to make.  The slicing is easy, though my cookies end up not being perfectly round.  The dough itself is amazing.  So tasty.  The cookies were tasty and moist.  I will likely make them again.  This time, I needed to use flat pretzel bits because that is what I had available.  But, next time I would use regular pretzels to crush.  I think the consistency would work out better.