These were a fun choice! We here at the Bud had a friend coping with the idea of blowing through another year of life, so we thought “Hey, two things that help humans cope: Chocolate + Peanut Butter. Add the two together and you got yourself a party! Well really there was already a party in the works so we think that these might have just helped promote the joy that the cornucopia of deeelicious Chicken wings and cheese dip had already started to circulate. Moving along!
Your Ingredient/ Tools List
Cookies:
1 ¾ cups All Purpose Flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp kosher salt
½ cup + 1/3 cup powdered sugar
½ cup + 1 Tbsp (packed) dark brown sugar
6 Tbsp (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cup creamy peanut butter
½ cup vegetable oil
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 1/3 cups (or about 8 oz) milk chocolate chips
Filling:
3 oz good quality milk chocolate (I used Lindt!)
¼ cup creamy peanut butter
2 Tbsp powdered sugar
¼ tsp kosher salt
6 Tbsp whipping cream
Tools:
Mixer
(having this tool is necessary, try mixing peanut butter and brown sugar by hand and you’ll hate yourself for trying to be inventive…)
(having this tool is necessary, try mixing peanut butter and brown sugar by hand and you’ll hate yourself for trying to be inventive…)
Spatula
2 or 3 large baking sheets or large pans
Parchment Paper
Sooo I know it seems like a lot, but if you like to cook regularly you’ll have most of this stuff on hand, and if not in my opinion having good vanilla extract and chocolate on hand is always a plus!!
Start by making your filling, this needs to chill for at least an hour so that its stiff enough to spread later.
Put the quality chocolate, peanut butter, powdered sugar, and salt in a medium sized bowl. Then take a small sauce pan and start to heat up your whipping cream. When you start to see it boil, making sure it doesn’t burn… pour this over the contents of the bowl and mix to melt and combine. Once slightly cooled you can put this in the fridge.
Now for the cookies!!
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and line your baking sheets with parchment (this just makes clean up easy, and helps prevent sticking – but you already knew that, right!)
Take the first four ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt) and mix to combine in a medium bowl; set aside. Now grab your mixer and put in the powdered sugar, dark brown sugar, and room temp butter; mix to blend.
Now add in your peanut butter and mix until its creamy and wonderous!
Gradually add in your vegetable oil and vanilla extract, and then mix in your egg.
Now you can take this off of the mixer and either transfer to another bowl, or if your mixing bowl is big enough you can add your dry ingredients that were set aside earlier, and the chocolate chips.
You don’t want to over mix so do this by hand with a spatula and only until incorporated.
You can now start to take level Tablespoon measurements and place them on the parchment paper lined cookie sheets. Be sure to space them well enough apart so they have room to grow a little. The recipe I used called for an inch and a half space between each but I never really know what that means or how you’re going to make a batch of cookies with only like 3 on the entire baking sheet so here’s how I spaced them!
Now they go into the oven for 12 minutes. When they are done let them cool for at least 5 minutes or so before transferring them off the metal (hot) surface because they are really soft and light at first.
I doubled this recipe because I figured what’s the point of going through the trouble if you’re only going to make a couple cookies. This recipe makes about two and a half dozen (30) cookie sandwiches after completion. I figured what the heck, 60 sammiches couldn’t hurt right! Now we’re talking!!
So when the cookies are cooled you can take your filling back out of the fridge, grab a butter knife and start to spread a dollop (the recipe suggests about a teaspoon I just plopped some on and went with it), take another cookie and put it on the other end. VOILA! Here’s what we got in the end!
Happy Birthday Marita, and Thanks for giving us here at Tastebud a great excuse to eat delicious junk!
