Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars with Pretzel Crust

What you need:

For the cookie dough:

• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, at room temp
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 1 bag (11 oz.) milk chocolate chips

For the crust:

• 3 1/2 cups pretzel sticks, crushed
• 3/4 cups unsalted butter, melted

Directions:

1. For the cookie dough: beat butter and sugars until creamy.
2. Add eggs and vanilla; mix until blended.
3. In a medium size bowl, combine together flour, baking soda, and salt.
4. Add flour mixture to butter mixture gradually until combined.
5. Stir in chocolate chips and set aside.
6. For the crust: mix together crushed pretzels with butter. Spread onto a parchment lined & greased 9x13" pan.
7. Bake crust for 8 minutes at 350*.
8. Drop cookie dough by the spoonful and even out carefully on the warm pretzels. Press into pretzels.
9. Bake for 20 to 24 minutes (at 350*), turning the pan after 10 minutes.

Recipe from Two Peas & Their Pod as seen on Tasty Kitchen