Sweet and Salty

I love chocolate-covered pretzels. I stumbled on a picture of a bar that looked similarly sweet and salty when I was surfing food blogs the other day. It didn't have a recipe with it, so I googled and found a couple things, but nothing that sounded like the picture looked. So I adapted a couple different recipes and it looks like the picture and tastes pretty good. I'll probably try it again because it seemed that everyone liked it.


Peanut Butter Chocolate & Pretzel Bars

Use:
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 3/4 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 T vanilla
2 cups flour
1 t salt
2 cups chopped pretzels
1 1/4 cups peanut butter chips
1 1/3 cups dark chocolate, finely chopped
1/2 cup whipping cream

1. Preheat oven to 350º and grease a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
2. Melt butter and brown sugar in a saucepan on low heat, stirring often. Remove from heat, and let cool slightly.
3. When cool, whisk in eggs and vanilla.
4. Stir flour and salt into butter mixture, and stir in 1 1/2 cup pretzels and peanut butter chips.
5. Put batter into pan and spread evenly.
6. Bake for 30 minutes.
7. Let cool in pan on a wire rack.
8. Bring whipping cream to a boil in a small saucepan.
9. Remove from heat, add chocolate, and stir until smooth.
10. Let cool until thickened.
11. Spread glaze over blondies and let set.
12. Sprinkle remaining pretzels on top.
13. Cut and enjoy! (I let mine set up in the fridge before cutting.)