Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cookies

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Peanut butter and chocolate is a seriously delicious combination!!  I recently made these chocolate dipped peanut cookies with pretzels, and now am on the peanut butter bandwagon (sorry to all our peanut allergic friends!)!!

I used this recipe from a Cup of Jo.  The recipe is by Abbey Rodriguez from The Butter Half!  It was really simple and I had these ready in under 30 mins!!  The only thing I changed was adding a sprinkle of sea salt (why not!?).

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 cup peanut butter
3/4 cups butter
1/3 cup water
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups oats
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup white sugar (for dipping) and sea salt for sprinkling
1 bag dark chocolate melts

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Method

Preheat oven to 180C. Beat sugar, peanut butter and butter until fluffy. Blend in water, egg and vanilla.Next, add oats, flour and baking soda. Mix well. Shape the cookie dough into 1-inch balls. Place them on ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar (wet the glass, then dip in the sugar!!).  Add a sprinkling of sea salt. Bake 10 minutes.

While cookies are baking, boil a small saucepan of water. Sit a heat-safe glass bowl on top of the saucepan and melt the chocolate (make sure your bowl does not touch the water).  Stir constantly until smooth.

Remove cookies from oven and top each with 1/2 teaspoon of chocolate. Allow them to cool and set for 10-15 minutes.

Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate

These cookies were loved by both adults and babies alike!!  Whilst they’re not exactly health food, the addition of oats makes them slightly more nutritious (I tell myself these things…).

Enjoy!!

Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Cookies with Pretzels

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I love baking (and yes, eating!) cookies around the holiday season (actually, around all of the seasons!)!!  Usually it’s the classics for Christmas time, like Gingerbread and shortbread, but this year I thought I’d try something different.  I’ve never tried peanut butter cookies before, but how could peanut butter and cookie not just be the most delicious combo ever!!

I saw this recipe and had to give it a go, but combined the recipe with this one!!  These cookies were easy to make, and completely delicious, and to make things even better, you then get to go and dip the little beauties in molten chocolate and coat them with pretzel crumbs.  I knew today was going to be a good day!

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Ingredients:

  • butter, softened
  • ½ cup smooth peanut butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 230 g(1¼ cups) brown sugar
  • 1 egg, lightly beaten
  • 185 g (1¼ cups) plain flour, sifted
  • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 pack dark chocolate melts
  • 1 bag pretzels

Method

  1. Place butter, peanut butter, brown sugar and vanilla into a mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer beat until light and creamy.
  2. Add egg, beat until well combined. Stir in sifted flour and bicarbonate of soda. Mix until a soft dough forms. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes.
  3. Preheat oven to 170°C.
  4. Roll mixture into 2.5 cm-sized balls. Place onto baking paper-lined trays, allowing room for spreading. Lightly press down onto each cookie with a fork.
  5. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool on trays.
  6. Once cookies cool, melt dark chocolate in a bowl over simmer water on the stove (make sure the bowl doesn’t touch the water)
  7. Dip cookies into the chocolate, then crumble pretzels over the chocolate

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All that’s left is to eat them!!  Luckily this Christmas, I got a new bike (pictured here) and can work these off!!)  What are your favourite cookies?