Anybody who loves Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or peanut butter, this cookie is for you! I came up with this recipe because I couldn't think of any cookies that combine two cookies into one cookie. This is a fudgy chocolate cookie and a moist peanut butter cookie in one cookie! How great is that =)? After baking these cookies and tasting their peanut butter center, I realized their centers tasted just like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. Since I'm the official taste tester =) of my recipes I decided to taste test this cookie along side an actual Reese's. So, I held a chocolate peanut butter cookie in one hand and a Reese's in the other... and bite after bite, this cookie tastes just like a Reese's, in tender, decadent, fresh cookie form! So I'd have to say I like them better than a Reese's. Everything is better fresh right? These cookies are mouthwatering!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
Yields about 34 cookies
For the Chocolate Cookie:
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup light-brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 Tbsp half and half
Directions:
In a small mixing bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt, set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer mix together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in egg and vanilla. Add half and half. Slowly add dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Place dough in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 1 hour. After 1 hour begin making peanut butter cookie dough.
For the Peanut Butter Cookie:
Ingredients:
2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup light-brown sugar
1 small egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking soda and salt, set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer cream together butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in egg and vanilla. Slowly stir in flour mixture. Mix until well combine, set aside.
To prepare cookie:
Butter a cookie sheet. Remove chocolate cookie dough from the refrigerator. Measure out 1 equal tablespoon of the dough and form into a ball. Force about a 1/2" wide hole all the way through the dough ball with your thumb (it should now look similar to a donut), place dough on cookie sheet. Now, take 1/2 egual tablespoon of the peanut butter dough mixture and roll it into a small log form. Gently press the rolled peanut butter "log" into the hole of the chocolate cookie dough. Press the peanut butter dough down until almost level with the chocolate dough. Repeat with remaining cookie dough. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes. Let cool.
For milk chocolate topping:
Ingredients:
5 oz milk chocolate or 3/4 cup milk chololate chips
Directions:
Melt chocolate in a microwave safe bowl on 50% power in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval until melted and smooth. Drizzle or pipe over cooled cookies.
