
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies
If you love the classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter, these Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies are right up your alley! Chewy chocolate gems filled with a sweet peanut butter surprise!
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies
Every holiday season, I bake up the same cookies: gingersnaps, butterscotch cookies, cherry chocolate chunk cookies, coconut macadamia nut bars, Noel nut balls along with a melange of homemade candies. So it was fun to dig deep into my stack of cookie recipes for some old favorites that haven’t been baked for years. And the peanut butter chocolate combo is always a winner!
I first made these peanut butter filled chocolate cookies when Katie was a wee Girl Scout…and she was in heaven with her first nibble. We had a meeting at our house and cookies had to be on the menu…these were cookie pushers extraordinaire, after all. This is my last cookie for Cookie Week.
Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
I found this recipe on the Martha Stewart website many years ago. With two out of my 3 children being Reese’s fanatics, the chocolate-peanut butter combo is always a winner around here. I sent most of these home with my oldest…and his roommates and their significant others asked him to bring back more cookies when he stopped by later in the week. And Katie had a big grin on her face after the first bite, telling her big brother that they taste just like peanut butter cups. And she’s the one who usually snubs any chocolate cookie, so I consider this a victory!
Here are the other terrific cookies baked up by my blogger friends:
- Pumpkin Macarons by The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen
- Cinnamon-Sugar Crinkle Cookies by i heart eating
- Ginger Lemon Snaps by Food Lust People Love
- Classic Monster Cookies
- No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
- Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Crackle Cookies
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cookies
A delicious cookie with the classic chocolate-peanut butter combo adapted from Martha Stewart Living, February 2000
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
Instructions
- Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside.
- In your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, shortening, sugar, and 1 cup of the brown sugar for a couple minutes until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing till incorporated. Add vanilla, then gradually add dry ingredients, and mix on low speed until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips by hand. Cover bowl with plastic wrap, and chill until firm, about 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350º. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, stir together peanut butter and remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar.
- Drop dough by heaping tablespoons about 2 inches apart. Make a thumbprint in the center of each cookie. Fill thumbprint with 1 teaspoon peanut butter mixture. Top with a second scoop of dough (flatten slightly between your palms), and carefully seal edges of dough to cover filling. Roll between palms to gently shape back into a ball.
- Bake until firm, about 12-14 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to wire racks to finish cooling.
Notes
Total time does not include chilling and cooling times.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
1 cookieAmount Per Serving: Calories: 313Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 107mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 2gSugar: 27gProtein: 5g
mmmm mmm mmmm! so delicious! love pb & chocolate foreverrrrr
My favorite candy in cookie form! These look amazing!
Oh I’m all for a cookie version of a peanut butter cup – my favorite! ๐
Yay for cookie season! I’m tired of my usual cookies so I’ll definitely have to give some of these a try!
Macadamia nut!
These look amazing Liz! You can never go wrong with PB & Chocolate! ๐
My favorite is shortbread, of course!
Peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven indeed, Liz. I love that you hosted Girl Scout meetings when your daughter was younger. I was a troop leader for both of mine for many years and also brought treats as well because we met at school. I will pin this in all the necessary places but it’s also going on my Recipes to Try board! I know we will LOVE it!
Yummy! Noel Nut Bars sound good, gonna nose around and see if you posted them already:@)
I love the peanut butter mixture each cookie is filled with. Sounds delicious!
I always try one or two new cookies a year at Christmas time although the standards always have to be made too. We do sugar and gingerbread for sure each year.