Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies

A friend was saying, “I didn’t see any Skinny Recipe on your blog yesterday.” I don’t know as to whether I should be sorry that I could not write a Skinny Mondays blog post or should I be glad that someone actually noticed.

I didn’t get to update the blog as I spent 4 days at my second brother’s house. It is customary for me and mom to spend some time with the brother and family during the school holidays.

Needless to say, my weekend was FUN! I baked with the nieces, cooked good food, drank a lot of cold drinks (while closing the kitchen door, so that mommie wouldn’t catch us) and I also did a “photo-shoot” for the nieces plus we had delicious cookies sandwiched with ice cream right after that. It was around 1 am! Ah…the cool things that we young and cute girls do. (Ahem)

Over a period of 2 days, we baked salted chocolate chip cookie, peach and cream cupcakes, blueberry crumb cake and Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies for which I would be sharing the recipe. Imagine having a bite into the rich chocolate cookie while biting in the other half gives you peanut butter cookies. How cool is that? You can of course gobble the whole cookie at one go, if your mouth is as big as mine. It is just like having the best of both worlds, at the same time.

When it comes to cookies, which camp are you in? I like mine crunchy! These cookies are chewy and soft if you bake it for 15 minutes and they turn crisp if you bake if for more. So the choice is really yours.

Eid is coming up next month. Wanna try something new for your guests this year? Look no further. Grab the recipe right now!

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies

 

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Prep time

30 mins

Cook time

1 hour 30 mins

Total time

2 hours

 

Author: Maya Kitchenette

Serves: 100

Ingredients

for the chocolate cookie dough

• ½ cup salted butter, softened to room temperature
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ½ cup light brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup plain flour
• ½ cup + 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips

for peanut butter cookie dough

• ½ cup salted butter, softened to room temperature
• ½ cup light brown sugar
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 and ¼ cups plain flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Topping

• 1 cup dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

For the chocolate cookie dough

1. Cream the butter and sugar together with a hand or stand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides and bottom as needed. Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined, scraping down the sides as needed. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly mix it into the wet ingredients. The dough will be very thick. Fold in the chocolate chips.

For the peanut butter cookies

1. Cream the butter and sugars together with a hand or stand mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in the peanut butter, egg, and vanilla.
2. Slowly mix in the baking soda, flour, and salt.
3. Chill both doughs for at least 1-2 hours.

Baking the cookies

1. Preheat oven to 170 degrees celcius.
2. Using a teaspoon of peanut butter cookie dough, roll into a ball.
3. Take a teaspoon of chocolate cookie dough and roll into a ball too.
4. Smoosh the two balls together and roll them to form a cookie.
5. Repeat for each cookie.
6. It is important the chocolate cookie dough is chilled or else it will be messy.
7. Top the cookies with a couple of chocolate chips.
8. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes, for soft ones. For crunchy cookies, bake for 10 minutes more.
9. Cool cookies and place in an airtight container.

Nutrition Information

Calories: 7109 Fat: 402g Saturated fat: 204g Unsaturated fat: 173g Trans fat: 7g Carbohydrates: 866g Sugar: 567g Sodium: 5570mg Fiber: 57g Protein: 117g Cholesterol: 860mg

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