Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Centre
4
Points®
Total time: 23 min • Prep: 12 min • Cook: 11 min • Serves: 30 • Difficulty: Easy
Who doesn’t love the lip-smacking duo of peanut butter and chocolate? These cookies will fly off the serving plate when you bring them out for a crowd.
Ingredients
Sugar
1 cup(s), granulated
Salted butter
¼ cup(s), at room temperature
Chunky peanut butter without salt
½ cup(s)
Raw egg
2 large
Vanilla extract
½ tsp(s)
Table salt
½ tsp(s)
Baking soda
½ tsp(s)
Whole-grain wheat flour
1 cup(s)
Milk chocolate chips
1 oz
Instructions
1
Preheat oven to 375ºF. Coat 2 cookie sheets with cooking spray or cover with parchment paper.
2
Place sugar, butter and peanut butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; blend well with mixer.
3
Add salt, baking soda and flour to sugar mixture; beat until completely incorporated.
4
Drop batter by heaping teaspoons onto prepared cookie sheets and flatten with the back of a wooden spoon. Make sure to leave about 2 inches between each cookie. (Bake several batches to prevent over-crowding if necessary.) Place a chocolate chunk in centre of each cookie.
5
Bake cookies until edges brown, about 10 to 11 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on cookie sheet for another 1 or 2 minutes; remove cookies to a wire rack and cool completely. Yields 1 cookie per serving.
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