Sweet and salty cookies

Peanut butter cookies with caramel, chocolate and pretzel topping

Cookie dough ingredients:
2 cups of butter flavored crisco
1cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups peanut butter chips

Topping:
caramel kisses- 2 for every cookie
pretzels- 1 for every cookie


Cream together shortening, peanut buttter, sugars and eggs.  Add dry ingredients a little at a time. Adding peanut butter chips at the end.  Chill dough at least an hour.  Roll into balls, flattening with a fork in crisscross pattern.  Bake 10 minutes.  
Meanwhile,  unwrap kisses.  when cookies have baked for 10 minutes, remove from oven. place a caramel kiss in center, put back in oven for 1 minute. remove, place a pretzel on top of melted kiss. top with an additional kiss. place back in oven 1 more minute.  Remove to cooler racks to cool.