Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups All-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
2 cups Old-fashioned oats
1 cup broken mini pretzel sticks (broken into about 1/2 inch pieces)
2 cups caramel baking chips or bits
2 cups milk chocolate M&M’s

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Using a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.

3. Using a large bowl, stir together butter, dark brown sugar and granulated sugar until combined. Stir in vanilla extract until combined. Beat in eggs one at a time until combined. Stir in dry flour mixture into wet ingredients until combined.

4. Stir in oats and then pretzels until combined. Stir in caramel and then M&M’s until combined. Drop 1/4 cup round balls of cookie dough to the prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart from each other. Bake for 14-15 minutes. Remove baking sheet from oven and let cookies cool for 8 minutes.

Notes: It’s hard to find really good caramel baking chips or bits. Hershey’s has discontinued making their awesome sea salt and caramel baking chips. I do recommend the caramel bits from Nuts.com. Their bits have great flavor and texture for baking. Also recommend Albertson’s brand call Overjoyed caramel baking chips.

If you can’t find caramel chips, a good substitute that you usually can find at the grocery store is butterscotch baking chips.