Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies
Soft chocolate cookies with a surprise peanut butter center!
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 20 cookies 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
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Outer Chocolate Cookie
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) (softened)
- 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
Peanut Butter Center
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar, plus more for dusting
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients for chocolate cookies: flour, cocoa and baking soda; set aside.
- Use a mixer to beat softened butter, 1/4 cup of peanut butter, sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla and egg. Beat well. Stir in the dry ingredients and mix until combined. It will be dry at first and will take a few minutes. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine the 3/4 cup powdered sugar and 3/4 cup peanut butter until fully incorporated.
- Roll as many balls as you can out of the peanut butter/powdered sugar mixture and place them on parchment. Use 1 tbsp of filling per ball.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Scoop 1 1/2 tbsp of the chocolate dough, and flatten it with your hands. Place a peanut butter ball in the center and wrap the dough around the peanut butter ball. Roll the ball gently in your hands to smooth out the dough. Once it’s pretty smooth, gently press the ball down to flatten into a disc. Repeat with remaining dough and filling.
- Bake cookies for 9-10 minutes.
- Move to a cooling rack after removing from the oven and dust with powdered sugar once they are cool.
- Enjoy!
Find it online: https://www.figjar.com/peanut-butter-filled-chocolate-cookies/