Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Everything Cookies
Dove Dark Chocolates are melted and added to double chocolate cookie batter to make giant double chocolate cookies that are not dry.
Servings 6 gigantic cookies
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 3.2 oz dark chocolate, chopped (90 grams)
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour or 150 grams gluten-free 1:1 (150 grams)
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, natural (40 grams)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ scant scant teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened (114 grams)
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar, rightly packed (70 grams)
- ¼ cup granulated sugar (50 grams)
- ½ tablespoon maple syrup (10-12 grams)
- 1 large egg, room temperature (52 grams)
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips
- ½ cup Reese's Pieces or any other chocolate peanut butter candy you like!
- Peanut Butter for topping (optional)
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a small microwave-safe bowl and set aside to cool slightly.
- Weigh the flour and mix it with the cocoa powder, baking soda and salt until blended. Set aside.
- Put the softened butter, both sugars, egg, maple syrup and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric mixer just until blended. You could also do this by hand if you don't have a mixer.
- Stir in the melted chocolate.
- Add the flour mixture and stir until fully blended, then stir in all the chips.
- Empty onto a large clean surface or onto a pastry mat and gently knead until dough comes together in a big ball. Divide that into 6 balls and chill balls thoroughly (on a dinner plate covered with plastic or in a freezer bag). Alternatively, you can roll it into a cylinder, chill the cylinder and cut into 6 pieces.
- When ready to bake, set dough balls on a parchment lined tray and bake in a preheated oven at 375 for about 13-15 minutes. A probe thermometer should top out at about 178 degrees F when inserted in the baked cookie (fresh out of the oven). Allow the cookie to cool for at least an hour.
- If cookies are overbaked they will taste good but will be dryer and slightly more crumbly. With these it's best to err on the side of underbaking vs. over, so you may want to bake one test cookie before baking the rest.
- Optional step: Spoon little bits of peanut butter over the cracks of the cookies while warm and let cool.
