I realize that is an obnoxiously drawn out recipe title – especially for something so compact as a cookie – but with so many intensely awesome flavors in one place, I felt it necessary to give them each a little credit.

I mean…

Brown butter! Pretzels! Toffee! And Peanut butter cups!!! All hanging out in one edible package? I think we should freeze for a minute and get pumped up about this.

With that out of the way, let’s move on to the part where I tell you these cookies – these outrageously giant, gooey, salty, peanut butter cup stuffed cookies –  are the very best thing to come out of my oven this month, and perhaps, this year. A big statement for someone who plays with their oven (almost) on the daily. But when it’s the truth, it’s the truth.

The base of these monster cookies is a simple brown sugar/ brown butter dough. It’s soft and sweet and just lovely on its own. But one is a lonely number and I decided to give this base some very fun friends to play bake with.

The dough gets swirled with chopped pretzels and toffee bits, then stuffed with a peanut butter cup right before baking. I used homemade mini PB cups I made with my niece a few weeks ago, but guess what? Reese’s will totally do the job GREAT. Whatever floats your boat 😉

I chose to forcefully press a pretzel into the top of each glob of cookie dough before baking, which is totally optional, but does give an awesome extra crisp-crunch to the finished product.

Now, I should warn you, these cookies are meant to be consumed with good friends (or um… a good tv show!) and lots of milk! Now… go forth and bake giant loaded cookies, It’s the Thursday/Any day thing to do 😉