Description
If you love classic peanut butter cookies or peanut blossoms, you will love this take on the chocolate and peanut butter combination. These thick and fudgy chewy peanut butter crinkle cookies are full of rich chocolate flavor and will become your new favorite cookies. They are the perfect cookies for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, or even birthdays.
Ingredients
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- 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
- 3/4 cup White Sugar
- 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 3 Eggs
- 1 1/2 cup Flour
- 3/4 cup Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 10oz bag Peanut Butter Chips
- 1/2 cup Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream butter and both sugars in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer on medium speed with a paddle attachment. Note, the butter must be at room temperature and soft but not melted for this to work. Do not use margarine.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla and mix again until combined.
- In a separate mixing bowl whisk together the dry ingredients (cocoa powder, flour, baking powder, and salt)
- Slowly mix the flour mixture into the bowl with the wet ingredients one cup at a time, until combined. Do not over mix.
- Once the cookie dough is combined, mix in the peanut butter chips.
- Using a cookie scoop, spoon cookie dough into balls and place on a prepared baking sheet and refrigerate for 1 hour. See notes below on skipping this step.
- In a small bowl add 1/2 cup of powdered sugar and roll cookie dough balls in the sugar coating them generously.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when poking them in the middle. Cooking times may vary.
- Cool cookies on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes and then transfer them to a cooling rack. Waiting to test them is always the hardest part!
- Serve with a glass of cold milk because these cookies are very rich!
Notes
- This is a very thick and sticky cookie dough. Chilling the dough for 1 hour makes rolling them easier, however, it is not required. If you don’t have time to chill the dough, dip your hands in cold water before handling the dough to prevent it from sticking to your hands. You will need to do this multiple times while rolling the cookie balls.
- Bake time will vary. I always start at the low end to prevent over cooking.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Chill Time: 60 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
