Peanut butter is life, why? Because it just is! I probably go through a jar of Trader Joe’s Organic Crunchy Peanut Butter once a week. It goes well with apples, bananas, PB&J, and celery (I hate celery). It’s even better inside a cookie! As much as I love peanut butter – I usually don’t care at all for peanut butter cookies because I prefer chocolate; however, my dad makes these cookies and dips them in chocolate so it’s changed my opinion on PB cookies 🙂 .
I promise you the hint of dark chocolate will change the way you think about peanut butter desserts. Think about it, chocolate makes everything better! I actually surveyed my followers on instagram asking whether they enjoyed milk or dark chocolate. A majority chose Milk chocolate which surpsised me because I feel as if every time I have a conversation with someone about chocolate (which is more often than I’d like to admit), they typically prefer dark chocolate.
A slightly chewy peanut butter cookie dipped in dark chocolate.
- 2 sticks butter
- 1 cup sugar. divided 1/4 cup for the top of the cookies
- 1 cup brown sugar softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup Organic Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 1/4 cup Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 blocks 72% Dark Chocolate Cocoa Almond Bark Trader Joe's
- 1 handful milk chocoalte
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
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Mix the wet ingredients together and mix the dry ingredients together.
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Slowly fold in the dry ingredients and mix together until evenly mixed (by hand or low speed on mixer).
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Roll the dough into tiny balls and dip one side in a bowl of sugar.
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Place the dough balls onto a baking sheet and use a glass to gently flatten the cookie a bit (about 1/8 inch).
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Take a fork and gently press into the cookie to make marks.
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Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes.
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Remove from oven and let cool.
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Melt the chocolate in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time, stir each time. You can also melt on low heat over the stove in a sauce pan.
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Dip part of the cookie into melted chocolate and place on parchment paper to set and cool.
You may freeze these in an air tight container.
<h1> Where do you buy your chocolate? </h1>
<h2> Trader Joe’s or Jewel as it’s the nearest grocery store. </h2)