You know when you are craving just that certain something, you have a recipe idea in your mind and nothing else will do? Well I found myself in just that type of predicament, and rather than thumb through pages and pages of cookbooks I decided to give my Swagbucks search engine a try…and voila…I found Frantic Home Cook and a must-try recipe for Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies.
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup butter softened
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
¼ cup peanut butter
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
¾ cup sifted powdered sugar
½ cup peanut butter
Preheat oven to 350° F.
In a medium mixing bowl stir together flour, cocoa powder, and baking soda. In another mixing bowl, beat together butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and the ¼ cup peanut butter with an electric mixer until combined. TO that add the egg, milk, and vanilla and beat well. Stir in as much of the dry ingredients as you can with mixer. You may then need to stir in the remaining dry ingredients by hand with a wooden spoon. (but if you are using a heavy duty Kitchen-Aid mixer like I did, then you won’t have to do it by hand)
Form the chocolate dough into 32 balls approximately 1 ¼ inches in diameter.
For the peanut butter filling combine powdered sugar and the remaining ½ cup peanut butter in a medium mixing bowl and beat until smooth. Shape mixture into 32 (¾ inch) balls. On a work surface, slightly flatten a chocolate dough ball and top with a peanut butter ball. Wrap the chocolate dough up and over the peanut butter filling, completely covering the filling. Roll dough into a ball. Repeat with the remaining chocolate dough and peanut butter filling balls.
Place balls 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake them for 8-10 minutes or until they’re just set and surface is slightly cracked. They will still be slightly soft, so do not over-bake them. Let stand for 1 minute, then transfer to wire rack to cool. Then hide them, or there will be none left for you!
If you have some patience, drizzle them with some melted chocolate. I could not wait that long, so mine were all devoured, unadorned.
Enjoy!
