These PMS cookies (also known as Chocolate Peanut Butter Cracker Cookies) have no baking requirements, just 5 ingredients, and will fulfill all of your sweet and salty cravings in 15 minutes! Try my Salted Brown Butter Toffee Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Candied Pecans, or No Bake Cowboy Cookie Cups if you’re still hungry.
If you’re reading this and suffer from PMS every month, these are for you.
If you’re reading this and have never had PMS but like the combo of sweet and salt, these are also for you.
Contents
I’ve been baking these PMS cookies for as long as I can remember. It all began with peanut butter smeared on two crackers and chocolate chips sandwiched in the center.
Later it progressed to doing the same thing but with Marshmallow Fluff put on one of the crackers as well. And then one day I put a pretzel twist to the center of it all, and it was nearly precisely what I wanted, but I still needed more chocolate.
I eventually discovered that spending a little additional time melting chocolate and covering the mini cracker cookie sandwich issue with such chocolate would suffice.
That also meant that I could prepare them in bigger quantities and preserve them for when cravings hit without having to put in the work.
For one thing, the alternative would be No-Bake Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter and Fluff Pretzel Ritz Cracker Cookies, which I will not do to you.
Second, most women are extremely acquainted with the powerful desires you experience while you’re on your period, and one of the most well-known is a need for anything sweet and salty. In rom-coms, it’s also a stereotype that a woman always goes for a pint of ice cream when she’s upset, and a bar of chocolate around that time of the month.
So, what do you think? THEY ARE BOTH RIGHT. Yet, to be honest, I eat either on any given day; the need is simply bigger when I have PMS.
If you’ve never had this flavor combination, it tastes like a chocolate-covered Nutter Butter with a scoop of fluff.
If it doesn’t sound like the bomb dot com, you should probably get out.
As I previously said, they are luckily very straightforward, which is precisely what you need if you’re battling your hormones.
The recipe is designed to produce 12 cookies, but you can simply make as many as you like since the ratio is 2 crackers to 1 everything else.
Just adjust the quantity of chocolate to your preference!
Is there any type of culinary expertise required for this recipe? No, it does not.
Do you need a mixing bowl? Nope.
Is this dish made using high-quality ingredients? That is not the case (though Im very partial to all things Ghirardelli).
- Lay out your crackers, bottom sides facing up, on a clean surface, ideally covered in wax paper or a nonstick silicone mat (aff link)(s), and spread approximately 1 teaspoon of peanut butter on 12 of them.
- Put 1 teaspoon marshmallow fluff on the remaining 12 crackers.
- Insert one pretzel into each fluff-covered cracker.
- Place a peanut butter-covered cracker on top of the fluff and pretzel cracker.
- Put your assembled cookies on a plate or cookie sheet and freeze for at least 5 minutes.
- While the cookies are cooling, melt the chocolate according to package instructions until completely melted and smooth. You may use a double boiler or a microwave to achieve this.
- Take the cookies out of the freezer. Dip each cookie in melted chocolate with a candy dipper (aff link) or fork until completely coated.
- Place the chocolate-covered cookies on wax paper or a nonstick mat. To make them seem nicer, I let the initial layer of chocolate set before sprinkling a little more melted chocolate over the top in a zigzag pattern. Let them to sit until totally set and the chocolate is no longer flexible to the touch.
I told you it was simple!
You should store them in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week without any difficulties.
To be honest, you could probably keep them in the fridge for longer, but I’ve never done so since these babies go so quickly!
Can anyone eat these?
Without a doubt!
Certainly, you do not have to be a lady suffering from PMS to create and appreciate them. Maybe you just dislike cooking in the oven.
It doesn’t matter who you are, since they are a great Christmas cookie exchange gift because they don’t need to be refrigerated and travel nicely in tins and boxes.
So double (or treble) a batch and give some to your mailman, your children’s teachers, friends, and relatives.
Or, keep them all to yourself since sharing is overrated.
Sweet and Salty “PMS” Cookies
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Description
Equipment
- Silicone nonstick mat
- Paper made with parchment (precut)
- Spoons for measuring
Ingredients
- *24 Ritz crackers
- 12 tablespoons peanut butter
- 12teaspoons Fluff of Marshmallow
- 12 twists of pretzel
- 10 to 16 oz. chocolate melting wafers
Instructions
- Lay out your crackers, bottom sides up, on a clean surface coated in wax paper or a nonstick silicon mat(s).
* 24 Ritz crackers - Put 1 spoonful of peanut butter on each of the 12 crackers.
12 tsp. peanut butter - Put 1 teaspoon marshmallow fluff on the remaining 12 crackers.
12 tbsp Marshmallow Fluff - Place a pretzel in each fluff-covered cracker, then top with a peanut butter-covered cracker.
12 twists on pretzels - Put your assembled cookies on a dish or baking sheet and freeze for at least 5 minutes.
- When the cookies cool, melt the chocolate according to the package instructions until completely melted and smooth.
10 to 16 oz. chocolate melting wafers - Take the cookies out of the freezer. Dip each cookie in melted chocolate with a candy dipper or fork until completely coated, then lay on prepared wax paper or nonstick mat**. Let to cool fully before storing. Enjoy!