Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
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4.9
Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Description
Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies feature a soft chocolate cookie dough wrapped around a creamy peanut butter filling. The dough incorporates cocoa powder and a blend of baking powder, baking soda, and cornstarch to produce a tender crumb. Mini chocolate chips folded into the dough add bursts of melted chocolate. The peanut butter center is prepared with powdered sugar and vanilla, shaped into small scoops and frozen to keep it intact while baking. This method creates cookies with a soft exterior and a luscious peanut butter core, offering a satisfying contrast in texture and flavor. The cookies bake at a moderate temperature to set the dough around the filling without melting the peanut butter completely, resulting in an indulgent treat that pairs well with a glass of milk or coffee.
Ingredients
PB filling:
- ½ cup peanut butter creamy
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Cookies:
- 1 cup butter softened to room temperature, unsalted
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar firmly packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large egg room temperature preferred
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ⅓ cup flour
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 Tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup mini chocolate chips optional
- ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips for tops of cookies, optional
Instructions
Peanut Butter Filling
- Prepare your peanut butter filling first by combining peanut butter, sugar, and vanilla in a medium-sized bowl and stirring until all ingredients are well-combined.
- Drop peanut butter mixture by 2 teaspoon-sized scoops onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet. Place in freezer to chill while you prepare your cookie dough.
Chocolate Cookie Dough
- Combine softened butter and sugars in large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat together until well-combined.
- Add eggs, one at a time, stirring well after each addition. Stir in vanilla extract.
- In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- Gradually add dry ingredients to wet, stirring well until ingredients are well incorporated.
- Stir in mini chocolate chips.
- Cover bowl with cling wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Once dough is nearly done chilling, preheat oven to 375F (190C) and prepare cookie sheets by lining with parchment paper.
- Remove cookie dough from refrigerator and peanut butter filling from the freezer.
- Use a 1 ½ Tbsp-sized cookie scoop and scoop a portion of cookie dough.
- Make a crater in the center of the dough with your thumb and gently press a frozen dollop of peanut butter filling in the center.
- Take another scoop of cookie dough and cover the peanut butter filling. Roll the dough around the filling until you have a smooth ball of cookie dough with no peanut butter showing.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet and bake on 375F (190C) for 13 minutes.
- Once cookies have baked, remove from the oven and within 3 minutes of removing from the oven, gently press additional chocolate chips onto the top.
- Allow cookies to cool completely on cookie sheet.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 18large cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 411 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1cookie | |
| Calories | 411kcal | 21% |
| Carbohydrates | 49g | 16% |
| Protein | 7g | 14% |
| Fat | 22g | 34% |
| Saturated Fat | 11g | 55% |
| Cholesterol | 52mg | 17% |
| Sodium | 215mg | 9% |
| Potassium | 230mg | 5% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 32g | 64% |
| Vitamin A | 366IU | 7% |
| Calcium | 52mg | 5% |
| Iron | 2mg | 11% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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