Want to make friends at the office? Make these cookies. Want to make enemies at the office? Tell your co-workers that you made these chewy, chocolaty, peanutty cookies and don’t bring them in. Unintentionally, I did the latter. I told them about the cookies, they proceeded to ask where they were and when I said I didn’t have them one co-worker went all Sandlot on me and said “You’re killin’ me smalls” I suppose I’ll just have to make another batch now. Shucks.
If you have been around the blog for a while you will notice that this cookie recipe is the same cookie recipe that I used for my Chocolate Chocolate Chip and Nutella Cream Sandwich Cookies and that is for one simple reason: it produces the perfect, chewy chocolate cookie. With this recipe, I simply took it in a different direction and instead of complimenting the cookies with nutella I used everyone’s favorite chocolate partner: peanut butter.
Servings
Ingredients
- 5 ounces bittersweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup 1 stick unsalted butter
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 - 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper set aside.
- Melt chocolate and butter in a saucepan over the lowest heat possible. Stir continuously until all chocolate and butter is melted. Remove from heat and cool completely.
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl beat melted chocolate, brown sugar and granulated sugar until creamy. Beat in vanilla. Beat in eggs one at a time.
- Slowly mix in dry ingredients. Batter will be thick.
- Fold in chocolate chips. (Note: At this point, if dough seems too soft to work with, you can refrigerate for 30 minutes)
- Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough onto prepared cookie sheet, taking care to make sure they are all the same size.
- Cook 8-10 minutes or just until set. Remove from oven. Allow to cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes. Remove to cooling rack to cool completely.
- In a bowl beat cream cheese, peanut butter and vanilla together until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar until frosting is thick and spreadable.
- Frost cooled cookies.
made these and split the batch, giving half to coworkers, half to my church group. received rave reviews from both! thanks!
OH! Looks great! so yummy!! I’ll try to do.
Ooooo I must try making these! Yummy!
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[…] Life’s Ambrosia que incluye una cobertura especial. En esta ocasión te incitamos a cocinar unas galletitas de chocolate con cobertura de manteca de maní. ¿Acaso no suena espectacular? Anímate y anota los ingredientes […]
I love the Sandlot..one of my favorite movies! The cookies sound incredibly tasty, I don’t know if I could take them to work……seems like I could eat them all myself!!
Chocolate and peanut butter are a perfect combination!
Oh my gosh, I love the Sandlot reference! One of my friends and I say that to each other all the time, but no one else ever gets what we’re talking about!
Oh, and the cookies look pretty darn good too!
I am so in the mood for chocolate and peanut butter. These looks delicious!