Chocolate Cookies with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Want to make friends at the office? Make these chewy chocolate cookies with peanut butter cream cheese frosting.
Servings 3 Servings
Ingredients
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.
Notes
Enjoy!