Chocolate-Peanut Butter Pillows

What’s better than a soft, chewy chocolate cookie?  How about a soft, chewy chocolate cookie with a peanut butter center?  These cookies are easy to put together and even easier to eat.  You don’t need to chill either dough so there’s no waiting when you want your cookie fix.  Do, however, let them cool before you tear in.  They’re better when they’re allowed to cool for half an hour.  image

I’m not a fan of recipes with 90000 pictures of every single step but in this recipe I’ll be posting several.

Ingredients:

Cookie:
1-1/2C flour
1/2 C cocoa
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2C sugar
1/2 C brown sugar
1 stick butter, softened
1/4 C creamy peanut butter NOT the natural kind
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

Combine dry ingredients except sugars.  Set aside.

Cream butter and peanut butter with sugars.  Add egg and vanilla.  Add dry ingredients and mix well.  Batter will be very stiff.  Set aside.  Make filling.

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Filling:

3/4 C creamy peanut butter NOT the natural kind
3/4 C confectioners sugar

Mix into a very stiff dough.  Use a measuring teaspoon to scoop out bits of dough.  Roll into 1/2” balls and place on waxed paper.

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Assembly:
This dough is easy to handle.  You don’t need to butter your hands or anything.  Grab a ball of chocolate dough about this big:

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Flatten it out between your palms.  (It’s a very pliable dough.):

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Place a ball of peanut butter in the center of the chocolate circle:

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Bring up the middle on both sides as if you were making a turnover:


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Then bring the ends in towards the middle:


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Til the little peanut ball disappears:


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Smooth out the chocolate-peanut butter disk.  Just pat it a bit:


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Place 2-1/2” apart on a greased half-sheet pan and flatten down a little.  These do not spread much at all.  Bake at 350° for 9 minutes and ONLY 9 minutes.  They will be done at 9 minutes.  Honest.  Let cool a minute on the pan and then transfer to a wire rack.  Cool completely then store in a covered container or ziplock.


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These cookies are not a crunchy cookie although they will have a little crunch on the bottom and around the edges.  If you try to make them crunchy by overbaking them, they’ll be dry as a bone.  You have been warned.

I get about 20 cookies at the size I make them but you can probably get an even two dozen if you take smaller hunks of chocolate and just flatten it out more.  I always end up with way too many peanut butter balls.  The kids used to eat them back in the day.  Now I just toss them out...except for maybe one :-D

Posted by Donna on Friday, July 23, 2010 at 05:09 PM
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