Peanut Butter Stuffed Chocolate Cookies
Triple chocolate cookies stuffed with a peanut butter filling!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 13 min
- Yield
- 18 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup unsalted butter (softened to room temperature )
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs (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
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
Combine softened butter and sugars in large bowl or in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat together until well-combined.
- 4
Add eggs, one at a time, stirring well after each addition. Stir in vanilla extract.
- 5
In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- 6
Gradually add dry ingredients to wet, stirring well until ingredients are well incorporated.
- 7
Stir in mini chocolate chips.
- 8
Cover bowl with cling wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- 9
Once dough is nearly done chilling, preheat oven to 375F (190C) and prepare cookie sheets by lining with parchment paper.
- 10
Remove cookie dough from refrigerator and peanut butter filling from the freezer.
- 11
Use a 1 ½ Tbsp-sized cookie scoop and scoop a portion of cookie dough.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
Place on prepared cookie sheet and bake on 375F (190C) for 13 minutes.
- 15
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.
- 16
Allow cookies to cool completely on cookie sheet.