{Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies}

Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (try saying that five times fast)

Adapted from Hershey's

As I have mentioned before, I really love chocolate chip cookies. Sometimes, I bake far too many of these cookies and end up looking for a different recipe to try out. I was intrigued by a lot of recipes for chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips on other food blogs, and wondered when I would be able to try to make them. Fortunately, the supermarket had a new stock of peanut butter chips, and I finally found the time to make these cookies.

The cookies were definitely a change from the usual cookie I normally eat. I could really taste the chocolate, and the peanut butter helped to add even more flavor. I really enjoyed making these cookies, but I will continue to find other cookie recipes (after all, who knows how any delicious new cookie recipes that I have not tried to make before are out there?).

Ingredients:

1 cup of butter

2 eggs

3/4 cup cocoa powder (I used Hershey's)

1 2/3 cups Reese's Peanut Butter Chips

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups of sugar

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2. Mix the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together. Set this mixture aside.

3. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until they are combined thoroughly.

4. Add the eggs and the vanilla extract, and beat them until they are fully mixed.

5. Slowly add the flour mixture and beat well.

6. Add the peanut butter chips.

7. Drop the dough on cookie sheets (you can use an ice cream scoop or tablespoon, depending on the size of cookies that you like).

8. Bake for 8 to 9 minutes.

Note: Try not to overbake these cookies, because they will become very hard. Remember that they will puff while baking, but flatten while they are cooling.)

{Peanut Butter Cookies}

Peanut butter has been with me ever since I was a little girl. Peanut butter with chocolate fudge, peanut butter sandwiches - I was even able to try peanut butter frozen yogurt once! I remember when I tried my first peanut butter cookie a few years ago. It was soft, chewy, and had just the right amount of peanut butter, and I have wanted to try and make them ever since. I found a good recipe, but it had a plethora of different ingredients. This is why I was very surprised when I found another recipe that only needed three ingredients. I was delighted to find out that I had all of the ingredients on hand, and went straight to work.

Adapted from Kraft Recipes

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter (creamy or crunchy)

1 egg
1/2 cup sugar

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit (160 degrees Celsius).

2. Beat the sugar, eggs, and the peanut butter until well combined.

3. Refrigerate this for 30 minutes.

4. Once out of the fridge, roll into 15 balls, and place them on a cookie sheet.

5. Flatten each ball by making a criss-cross pattern with a fork.

6. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.

I was not sure what to expect with these cookies. I had a feeling that they would become hard and very crunchy, which i something that I never like in a cookie. I might try the other recipe sometime, but I was so curious about how the cookies from this recipe would turn out that I just had to try it.


Unfortunately, the peanut butter was very oily, and I needed to use paper towels to blot the oil from the cookie sheet. I also had to shorten the baking time, because they would have burned if they stayed in the oven for a few more minutes. The cookies were surprisingly chewy, and not crumbly and crunchy like I expected them to be. I think that although they turned out not quite what I expected , they were pretty good for my first try. I think that the next time I make peanut butter cookies, I will try and take out most of the oil that comes with the peanut butter.

{Peanut Butter Experiment}

The chocolate chip cookie recipe is very simple, but you can add basically anything you want to your list of ingredients. Here are a few to get you started: Nuts (walnuts and pecans make my mouth water), candy (M & M's are good, but I know some people who have tried other types such as caramel or gummy bears!), and peanut butter (you can add peanut butter chips with your chocolate chips, but you can also just use chopped up Reese's pieces).

I have been baking chocolate chip cookies a lot lately, so I decided to add peanut butter chips to my cookies today to add more flavor to them.

(Sorry for the blurry picture)

Here are some of my ingredients.

The first recipe that I posted was about chocolate chip cookies, and I used that recipe for these cookies. I added 1 cup of the peanut butter chips, and you can lessen the quantity of chocolate chips if you desire. I decided not to do that, due to the fact that my family members usually like chunky cookies.

(If you have read my previous post on cookies, then you will know why I scattered the cookie batter on the tray!)

I will always be partial to chocolate chip cookies, but whenever I want to spice things up, I'll be sure to use peanut butter chips.

To view my original chocolate chip cookie recipe, click here.