Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
If you are a chocolate peanut butter fan, this heavenly combination will soothe your worries with the first bite! This recipe can be halved easily, if you don't want to tempt yourself to eat all of them as the full recipe makes about 5 dozen cookies.
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Ingredients
- 2-1/2 c all-purpose flour
- 1 t baking soda
- 12 T butter-(1-1/2 sticks)
- 1-1/2 c dark brown sugar
- 12 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate bar-(3-4oz bars) break into small pieces using the grooved sections in bars
- 2 large eggs- room temperature
- 10 oz Reese's Peanut Butter Chips (1 bag)
Instructions
Dry Ingredients:
- Whisk flour and baking soda together in a bowl and set aside.
Microwave:
- In a large glass bowl, melt butter, brown sugar and chocolate pieces in the microwave. Stir after 1 minute. Continue to cook at 15 second intervals until chocolate is melted and blends easiliy into the butter and brown sugar using a whisk.
- Allow it to cool for at least 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Whisk in one egg at a time until well blended before adding the second egg.
Mix Ins:
- Using a hand mixer on LOW speed, or a wooden spoon, blend in the flour mixture just until combined.
- Stir in peanut butter chips until evenly distributed.
- Refrigerate dough for about an hour.
Scoop and Bake:
- Using a medium cookie scoop(1-1/2 T), drop dough onto a parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet about 2" apart.
- Bake about 10-12 minutes.
- After resting on the pan for a couple of minutes, move to a cooling rack.
- * Allow pan to cool completely before reusing.