Dessert & Baked Goods » Chocolate-Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies
Chocolate and peanut butter. Is there a better combination? Jane's cookies are smooth and delicious and the chocolate is the icing on the cake, so to speak.
Approximately 2 dozen cookies
Jane says you can double or triple this recipe and the cookies come out great.
Ingredients
Jane says you can double or triple this recipe and the cookies come out great. This recipe makes about 2 dozen cookies depending
For Cookie
- ½ cup butter, room temperature
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1-¼ cup flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
Chocolate Dip
- 16 oz of milk chocolate (or the chocolate of your choice)
Special Equipment
- Jane uses a free-standing electric mixer, but you can use any other mixer or even a wooden spoon.
How-to
For Cookie Dough
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Place butter and peanut butter into a mixing bowl. Mix for 30 seconds or until blended together, stopping to scrape the bowl
- Add white and brown sugar to the bowl. Mix for 30 seconds or until blended
- Add egg and vanilla to the bowl. Continue to mix
- Add flour, baking soda and baking powder to the bowl. Mix on low speed until dry ingredients are fully incorporated. Switch to high speed and thoroughly blend all ingredients. .
- Place dough in refrigerator and allow to chill for about an hour
- Remove dough from refrigerator. Using a spoon, scoop dough and mold it to the shape of the spoon. Roll it off the spoon onto a greased cookie sheet
- Space the cookies with no more than 3 in a row
- Bake cookies for 10-15 minutes or until done
Dip the Cookies in Chocolate
- Melt the chocolate
- Dip cookies in the chocolate halfway at an angle (so it doesn't break). One side should have a bit more than the other. Allow the excess chocolate drip off. Place cookies on a cookie sheet line with wax paper
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Place finished cookies in the freezer and chill until hardened (5-10 minutes)
Comments (5)
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Posted Friday, April 24, 2009, at 3:23 am by Lindah:Several of my running buddies ran the Boston Marathon so I turned these into Marathon Cookies (wrote 26.2 on them) and brought them to the post-race party! They were a hit!
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Posted Monday, January 19, 2009, at 8:01 pm by Lindah:These cookies were ABSOLUTELY delicious! I actually put some mini-chocolate chips in the cookies themselves, and drizzled white chocolate over the whole thing to give it a gourmet-looking touch! A whole station full of firefighters loved them!
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Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008, at 9:38 pm by Bea Viera:I made the peanut butter cookies last week and brought them to work. Everybody LOVED them. Tonight my son's girlfriend brought them for an after dinner treat and we all got to have these scrumptious cookies. M-m-m good.
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Posted Saturday, May 17, 2008, at 10:50 am by Donna Viera:These cookies are a perfect pick-me-up with a cup of coffee in the afternoon. Yum!
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Posted Friday, May 16, 2008, at 7:31 pm by Lynne:these cookies rock!
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