Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies

Can I tempt you with these ohh goodness licious peanut butter chocolate cookies?

Please!

Intense flavour of chocolate cookies stuffed with peanut butter.

If you love Reese peanut butter cups then I would say these beauties taste exactly like that but in cookies form.

And yes, you gonna LOVE these cookies. I promise.

Chocolate Cookies

I know I made a super healthy recipe last week, I didn't forget about it.

But hey, life is about balance right? Sometimes you're naughty sometimes you're an angel.

I really love the intense chocolate flavour that the cookies have. And it's super easy to make also.

Tips On How To Prevent The Cookies From Spreading

Ok so let's talk a bit on how to work with this cookie dough.

It's a soft dough so you will need to chill it in the fridge for 30 minutes or until it's firm enough to handle without giving you a migraine or panic attacks.

Don't leave it too long in the fridge though because then it will be too firm and making it difficult to work with.

I'd say 30 minutes in the fridge is the sweet spot. But if you forgot and it passed 3 hours, and the dough is rock hard.. no worries.

Just bring it to room temperature, scoop the dough and warm it with your hands to soften it.

Now if you're like me who doesn't like super flat cookies, then you should keep on reading.

There are several reasons that your cookies turn out flat.

Oven Temperature

When the oven is too hot then the fat in the dough melts faster than it could set.

That's why the cookies spread.

So know your oven.

Don't Over Mix The Ingredients

Over mixing the ingredients will incorporate air in and it messes up with the structure.

Chilling The Dough

This is kind of similar but.. not really, from the point above.

When the dough is soft like in this recipe, it's extremely important to chill it first so that it's colder and firmer. Which then leads to cookies not spreading.

Make Your Cookies Tall

If you watch the recipe video below you can see that before baking I didn't flatten my cookies dough.. at all.

Flattening the dough will of course help the spreading. Let the nature take its course.

Bake In Middle Rack

Using the middle rack will ensure the cookies rise and bake evenly.

Super simple.

Tips On How Not To Get Stiff Peanut Butter Filling

I thought I'd share what I encountered when I tested this recipe.

For testing I used peanut butter with 90% peanuts and I didn't mix it with anything else. I just used it as it came from the jar.

What I noticed is that the peanut butter filling got quite stiff after baking that when I broke the cookies in half, the peanut butter filling didn't break together with the cookies. Haha!

It was not hard like a rock but it was not a beautiful view because one half of the cookie will have empty hole due to the filling being whole still with the other half of the cookie.

So I changed strategies.

Lesser Content Of Peanuts

For this recipe I'm using 85% peanut in my peanut butter.

I love how the result is, as you can see in the pictures.

Mixing With Honey

Honey soften the peanut butter due to its texture and it also adds a wonderful taste to the filling.

Using honey really helps. At least for me.

But hey then again, if you don't mind you can simply use your peanut butter as is. No problem at all.

Hope you'd give these delicious cookies a try!

In Summary

These amazing peanut butter chocolate cookies are:

• just like Reese peanut butter cup but in cookies form
• easy to make, seriously
• have intense chocolate flavour
• with good amount of peanut butter filling, for good measure
• simply AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS, I kid you not

Before You Go

Maybe you would also like to check out these:

• Double chocolate fudge cookies
• No-bake peanut butter chocolate cheesecake (seriously must try)
• Chocolate crinkle cookies
• No-bake chocolate cheesecake

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📖 Recipe